Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 249 - Matthew Coley (Part 1)

Heartland Marimba Founder, Entrepreneur, and Arts Administrator Matthew Coley stops by to talk about the history of Heartland Marima, freelancing, and his background in arts administration (02:25), the many ways the Covid pandemic has affected his life (28:15), growing up in southwest Virginia and the beginnings of his percussion career (37:30), studying with Mark Ford at East Carolina University and North Texas, along with discussion of North Carolina percussion back in the day (48:15), and his Northwestern grad school years under Michael Burritt and She-e Wu (01:17:10).

Finishing with a Rave on Brené Brown’s Daring Greatly (01:32:25).

Links:

Matthew Coley’s Website

Matthew Coley’s Marimba One page

Heartland Marimba

Heartland Marimba Quartet

Ujjal Bhattacharyya

Joe Millea

Hannah Weaver

Clocks in Motion

“Root Beer Rag” - Billy Joel (percussion version)

Mark Ford

Christopher Deane

Harold Jones

John Floyd

Annie Stevens

Erik Johnson

Cort McClaren

Martinsville Speedway

Rob Falvo

“Two Mexican dances” - Gordon Stout

Ed Smith

Poovalur Sriji

Sandi Rennick

Patricia Islas

Girls March

Nick Werth

Dave Hall’s appearance on the podcast

“Merlin” - Andrew Thomas

“Concealed Chambers” - Matthew Coley

“Drums” - Sven-David Sandstrom

Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion - Bela Bartok

“Ambient Resonances” - Peter Klatzow

Concierto Madrigal - J. Rodrigo

“Cryin’ Time” - Bob Becker

“Three Transformations” - Andrew Thomas

“And Legions Will Rise” - Kevin Puts

Michael Burritt

She-e Wu

Anthony Calabrese

Owen Clayton Condon

James Ross

Velocities - Joseph Schwantner

“Mirage” - Yasuo Sueyoshi

Raves:

Daring Greatly - Brené Brown

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 248 - Nathan Daughtrey, 2021

C. Alan Publications owner, composer, and percussionist Nathan Daughtrey returns to the podcast to talk about taking over C. Alan Publication, then having to deal with the pandemic (02:15), developing composers, making a pathway into the concert band literature world, and company changes during the pandemic (19:30), the joys of fatherhood and creating a work/life balance (34:15), and settles into the Random Ass Questions, including discussions on self-publishing, movie trivia, favorite books, UVA basketball, and Chris Thile (43:15).

Finishing with a Rave on the musical film In The Heights (01:31:30).

Links:

Nathan’s 2016 appearance on the podcast

Nathan Daughtrey’s homepage

Nathan Daughtrey’s C.Alan page

Cort McClaren

NAMM

TMEA

Midwest Band Clinic

“Limerick Daydreams” - Nathan Daughtrey

“Immortal Dream” - Nathan Daughtrey

Stempien and Turner

Bruce Broughton

“Heroes” - Bruce Broughton

Jim Casella

“Burn” - Nathan Daughtrey

“Spitfire” - Nathan Daughtrey

John Baldwin

Casey Cangelosi’s 2017 appearance on the podcast

Ivan Trevino’s 2017 appearance on the podcast

Beyond Talent - Angela Myles Beeching

Spiral Passages - Nathan Daughtrey

Yuletide Marimba - Nathan Daughtrey

Almost Famous trailer

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Gone with the Wind trailer

Schitt’s Creek: Season 1 trailer

UMBC vs. Virginia 2018 NCAA tourney

UVA vs. Texas Tech 2019 NCAA final

Beach Music - Pat Conroy

Bag of Bones - Stephen King

House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

Laura Franklin’s 2016 appearance on the podcast

“Warhammer” - Daniel McCarthy

Marimba Concerto, Third Movement - David Long

Chris Thile

Raves:

In The Heights trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 247 - Jeff Hewitt, 2021

Episode 15 guest Jeff Hewitt returns to talk about what’s been going on in his career in the past 5 years (03:45), teaching in the Park Hill School District in Kansas City, Missouri, during a pandemic and getting creative in delivering content (16:!5), unexpectedly teaching high school full time and focusing on your quality of life (34:45), and the Random Ass Questions segment, with items on Michael Bolton, the KC Chiefs, tornadoes, and Thomas Hart Benton (41:35).

Finishing with a Rave on a very packed June sports calendar (01:26:45).

Links:

Jeff Hewitt on the podcast in 2016

Jeff Hewitt’s KSU update

World Percussion Group

Kansas City Percussion Group

The Van Cliburn Piano Competition

“Your Love” - The Outfield

Elvis Grbac

“To Love Somebody” - Michael Bolton

Michael Bolton on Celebrity Dating Game

Frank Darabont

Shawshank Redemption trailer

Tenet trailer

Tusk trailer

Shoeless Joe - W.P. Kinsella

Field of Dreams trailer

Super Bowl LIV

Kansas City Power & Light District

“Dysfunctional” - Tech N9ne

Dee Ford

“Baby’s Coming” - Jellyfish

“I’ll Catch Up” - The Get Up Kids

“Jesse” - Paw

2013 Moore Tornado

Thomas Hart Benton

Ken Burns’ Thomas Hart Benton Documentary

Raves:

USA-Mexico 2021 National League Final Highlights

Bucks-Nets Game 7 Highlights

Hawks-Sixers Game 7 Highlights

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 246 - Thomas Spann, Jr. (Part 2)

Fisk University’s Thomas Spann, Jr. returns to talk about his Benedict College (SC) undergraduate years (01:40), his master’s degree time at Tennessee State and getting into the church performance scene in Nashville (14:30), touring the world for the U.S. State Department with Blended 328, and interacting with many different cultures (33:20), and takes time for the Random Ass Questions (50:15), with segments on hybrid drumline writing, going from student to teacher, and bandwagon sports fandoms.

Finishing with a Rave on the autobiographical travel book Blue Highways (01:31:45).

Links:

Part 1 with Thomas Spann, Jr.

Thomas Spann, Jr.’s homepage

Sean Daniels

Jovon Milford on the Podcast

“You’re All I Need” - Hezekiah Walker

“The Blessing of Abraham” - Donald Lawrence

Bobby Jones Gospel

“Rivers Flow” - Jonathan Dunn

Judah Temple of Praise

Stateland Missionary Baptist Church

Brother Gabe’s House (Formerly Blended 328)

Shona

“Paid in Full” - Eric B. & Rakim

“Hypnotize” - Notorious B.I.G.

“You Got Me” - The Roots

“Changes” - 2Pac

The Gullah Geechee

Phantom Regiment

“Super Bass” - Nicki Minaj

“Here I Am” - Rick Ross

“Middle Child” - J. Cole

Avengers: Endgame Trailer

Joker trailer

Batman Returns trailer

Cavs beat Warriors in 2016 Finals

“A Long Walk” - Jill Scott

BIlly Cobham drum solo

Steve Gadd - “50 Ways” groove

Chris Dade

Tiny Desk - Kirk Franklin

Raves:

Blue Highways - William Least Heat-Moon

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 245 - Thomas Spann, Jr. (Part 1)

Fisk University (TN) Director of Bands and Percussion Professor/Performer Thomas Spann, Jr. stops by to talk about all of his music activities in and around Nashville (02:30), the Creative Soul Music School (17:15), getting the marching band up and running at Fisk after a 20 year absence (29:05), the legacy of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, along with growing up in South Carolina and the influence of his family and his high school band director on his music career (49:45).

Finishing with a Rave on In the Pit with Piper and the WWE Biography on “Rowdy Roddy Piper” (01:16:50).

Links:

Thomas Spann, Jr.’s homepage

Thomas Spann, Jr.’s Pearl Drum webpage

Creative Soul Music Academy

Fisk University’s Marching Band

“S.O.S” - S.O.S. Band

“Lotus Flower Bomb” - Wale

“London Bridge” - Fergie

Lalo Davila

Harvey Thompson and Ralph Nader

“You’re All I Need” - Hezekiah Walker

“The Blessing of Abraham” - Donald Lawrence

“For The Night” - Pop Smoke

“Alabaster Box” - CeCe Winans

“T.R.O.Y.” - Pete Rock and C.L. Smooth

“Golden” - Jill Scott

“Lovely Day” - Bill Withers

Fork’s Drum Closet

Vann Newkirk Sr.

“Optimistic” - Sounds of Blackness

Sean Daniels

Fisk Jubilee Singers

Fisk Jubilee Singers win Grammy

Ryman Auditorium

National Museum of African American Music (NMAAM)

“Set It Off” - Juvenile

“Doo Wop (That Thing)” - Lauryn Hill

“You Make Me Wanna…” - Usher

The Cadets DCI

Blue Devils DCI

Madison Scouts DCI

“Them Basses” - Getty Huffine

Standard of Excellence Comprehensive Band Method

Benedict College (SC)

Raves:

In the Pit With Piper - Roddy Piper and Robert Picarello

Biography: WWE Legends - “Rowdy” Roddy Piper

Petes Percussion Podcast: Episode 244 - Paige Durr

Percussion Performer and Educator Paige Durr stops by to talk about playing for Six The Musical on a cruise that shut down due to Covid (01:40), teaching in Texas (13:40), getting ready for Girls March 2021 and that time she went to the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with James Madison University’s band (22:15) growing up in Maryland and her experiences in National Honor Society (34:40), her college years at JMU (VA) learning from Bill Rice and Casey Cangelosi (46:30), her experiences at T.A.P.S. (01:08:00), and completes the podcast with the Random Ass Question segment, including a discussion of her experiences as a Black woman in percussion (01:12:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the documentary Tina (01:36:55).

Links:

Paige Durr’s website

Six the Musical

Jersey Boys

“Late in the Evening” - Paul Simon

“Cut the Cake” - Average White Band

Steve Gadd

Girls March staff

Raychel Taylor on the podcast

Annie Chernow on the podcast

Hit Like A Girl Contest

Casey Cangelosi on the podcast

Robert Marino

Howard County Youth Orchestras

Ku-Ka-Ilimoku - Christopher Rouse

Jesus Christ Superstar

“Moby Dick” - Song Remains the Same

Marlon Foster

Portraits of Rhythm - Anthony Cirone

Twelve Studies for Snare Drum - Jacques Delécluse

Paige Durr’s performance videos

“Eight on 3 and Nine on 2” - Robert Marino

“Ella-Babella-McMella-Barbarella” - Kevin Bobo

Kevin Bobo on the podcast

Dave Hall on the podcast

Laurel Black on the podcast

“Get It!” - Gene Koshinski

Alexander Technique

Ted Atkatz Percussion Seminar

“Time for Marimba” - Minoru Miki

Eric Guinivan

Jamieson Carr

Shaun Tilburg on the podcast

George Nickson

Ralph Nader

Drumline trailer

Overcooked 2 trailer

White Chicks trailer

Chris Rock at the 2005 Oscars

Elf trailer

Step Brothers trailer

The Color Purple - Alice Walker

The Color Purple musical

Cynthia Erivo on the Daily Show

Nate Smith

Tina trailer

Beehive the Musical

Raves:

Tina trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 243 - Annie Chernow (Part 2)

Coppell ISD’s Annie Chernow returns to talk about her grad school years at Minnesota-Duluth (03:45), getting to Texas to take Percussion Specialist Positions (14:25), keeping up with self-care, and the high level of burnout that’s has been happening in Texas Percussion (19:15), her experiences as a Woman in the Percussion Field (28:15), and the rest of the Random Ass Questions (44:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2020 film Another Round (01:03:05).

Links:

Part 1 with Annie Chernow

Annie Chernow’s Coppell ISD homepage

Gene Koshinski

Tim Broscious

Ben Toth

Thom Hannum

Girls March

Airplane trailer

New Girl

Schitt’s Creek

The Stand - Stephen King

Where the Crawdads Sing - Delia Owens

Looks Like You Need Iceland

The Sound at Cypress Waters

Amanda Gorman at the 2021 Inauguration

Coming Together - Frederic Rzewski

Raves:

Another Round trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 242 - Annie Chernow (Part 1)

Coppell ISD (TX) Director of Percussion Activities Annie Chernow stops by to talk about leading Coppell’s massive percussion program, JV and Varsity Marching Band, and the challenges of Covid-19 (03:00), Coppell hosting the 2021 Girls March (34:30), growing up in New Jersey, her father’s San Juan Music licensing company, and playing in the pit for HS musicals (42:10), and her undergrad experience at the University of Delaware and her years marching DCI (57:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the nonfiction essay collection Trick Mirror: Lessons in Self Delusion (01:14:05).

Links:

Annie Chernow’s Innovative Percussion Page

Annie Chernow’s Coppell ISD page

Simple Steps to Successful Beginning Percussion - Kennan Wylie

Kathleen Kastner on the Podcast

“Velocities” - Joseph Schwantner

“Merlin” - Andrew Thomas

Momentum - Patricia Islas

2021 Girls March

Raychel Taylor on the Podcast

Lauren Teel on the Podcast’

Quey Percussion Duo

San Juan Music

A Chorus Line opening sequence

Thom Hannum

Jim Ancona

Iain Moyer on the Podcast

Colin McNutt

Raves:

Trick Mirror - Jia Tolentino

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 241 - Jovon Milford

Allen University (SC) Percussion Professor Jovon Milford stops by to talk about his job responsibilities and building a new percussion program (03:00), establishing a percussion identity at Allen and that time the host played a recital at Benedict College (SC) (15:10), getting the job at Allen, his work in high school and elementary programs, and getting his Master’s (30:45), growing up near Charleston, SC and his high school band experience (48:30), his Benedict College HBCU undergrad experience (58:15), and settles in for the Random Ass Questions segment (01:14:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the film Summer of Soul (01:42:30).

Links:

Jovon Milford’s homepage

Lamon Lawhorn’s most recent PPP appearance

Harvey Thompson

Ralph Nader (drummer)

Leigh Howard Stevens

Raynor Carroll

“U Can’t Touch This” - MC Hammer

Sean Daniels

Thomas Spann Jr.

“Sonata for Timpani” - John Beck

Mitchell Peters

“Rhythm Song” - Paul Smadbeck

“Crystal Mallet” - Arthur Lipner

Bad Boys trailer

Soul trailer

Coming to America trailer

Coming 2 America trailer

Kobe Bryant buzzer beaters

Method of Movement - L.H. Stevens

“Fanfare for Tambourines” - John Alfieri

Raves:

Summer of Soul trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 240 - Matthew Lau

Hong Kong-based Percussionist and Educator Matthew Lau stops by to talk about educating his home country on LGBTQ+ rights and concerts there (02:00), being back in Hong Kong as an adult and Covid times there (20:20), growing up in Hong Kong, the school system there, and cultural differences (33:40), his higher education career there and in NY (53:15), the Fisher/Lau duo and traveling around NY and Long Island (01:13:30), and the Random Ass Questions segment (01:22:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the short film Two Distant Strangers (01:49:30).

Links:

Matthew Lau’s Website

“The Reinvention of Romance” - Sarah Hennies

“Water, Wine, Brandy, Brine” - Viet Cuong

Fisher/Lau Project

Abby Fisher on the podcast

“Khan Variations” - Alejandro Viñao

“Libertango” - Eric Sammut

Hong Kong Protests

Jonathan Haas

David Herbert

William Moersch on the podcast

Eduardo Leandro

“Rebonds B+A” - Iannis Xenakis

Tim Genis

So Percussion

Sandbox Percussion

“Hop (2)” - Paul Lansky

Contemporary Chamber Players

Stephen Hall

“Mirage” - Yasuo Sueyoshi

Legally Blond trailer

“Loops for Vibraphone & Computer” - Von Hansen

Sex and the City opening credits

Guernica - Pablo Picasso

Made You Look trailer

Franco Donatoni

Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez

Raves:

Two Distant Strangers trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 239 - Joel Tetzlaff

Marketing Development Specialist for the Yamaha Corporation Joel Tetzlaff stops by to talk about Yamaha, conferences, pandemic business and video innovations (03:00), his beginnings with Yamaha and discussions of simplicity in design (26:30), growing up in Wisconsin, DCI and MTV, and the manufacturing of materials (51:45), and then we get to the Random Ass Questions (01:15:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the 1996 film Secrets & Lies (01:46:45).

Links:

Joel Tetzlaff

Dave Gerhart and Heather Mansell on the podcast

David Garibaldi

Alex Van Halen

PASIC

NAMM

Keith Aleo on the podcast

Jeff Spanos

Jeff Moore

Origins of the Yamaha Brand

Fred Sanford

Tom Aungst

Neil Larrivee

Keiko Abe

Steve Gadd

Raves:

Secrets & Lies trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 238 - Carlos Camacho

Following a brief comment on current events, University of Panama Percussion Professor Carlos Camacho stops by talk about his job responsibilities in percussion and administration (03:30), his compositional career and starting the PAS Chapter for Panama (30:00), growing up in Panama City, discussion of the Panama Canal, and his love of Metallica (40:00), going to Sam Houston State (TX) for undergrad (58:30), doing his master’s at Carnegie-Mellon (PA) and his doctorate at Cincinnati Conservatory (OH) (01:13:30), and settles in for the Random Ass Question Segment, including portions on living in the U.S. for 10 years and Panamanian Soccer (01:33:00).

Finishing with a Rave on Maya Angelou’s The Heart of a Woman (02:02:30).

Links:

Carlos Camacho’s homepage

Ella Ponce

The Panama Canal

John Lane

“Master of Puppets” - Metallica

“For Whom the Bell Tolls” - Metallica (S&M)

Some Kind of Monster trailer

“Fade to Black” - Metallica

“Nothing Else Matters” - Metallica

“See Ya Thursday” - Steve Mackey

Jude Traxler

“Child of Tree” - John Cage

Eastern Music Festival

Paul Evans

Jeremy Branson

An American in Paris - George Gershwin

The Planets: Mars - Gustav Holst

Percussion Group Cincinnati

Panama scores their only goal of the 2018 World Cup

Panama qualifies for 2018 World Cup

U.S. beats Panama in 2013 World Cup qualifier

Shutter Island trailer

Symphony No. 3: Circus Maximus - John Corigliano

Jesús Moroles

Roberto Duran Top 10 Knockouts

Irving Saladino

Raves:

The Heart of a Woman - Maya Angelou

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 237 - Abby Fisher

Percussionist and Professor Abby Fisher stops by to talk her percussion and non-percussion teaching activities (04:00), working with Nief-Norf and Commissioning for Voice and Percussion (15:00), The Fisher/Lau Project (34:45), growing up outside Chicago, attending musicals, and her cross-country running career (43:30), her undergrad career at Lawrence University (WI) (01:02:45), her master’s degree time in Toronto and NYU (01:09:25), SUNY-Stonybrook for her doctorate (01:23:20), and takes time for the Random Ass Questions (01:32:00).

Finishing with a Rave on the film Sound of Metal (01:55:25).

Links:

Abby Fisher’s website

Fisher/Lau project

Matthew Lau

Nief-Norf

Andy Bliss

“Correspondence” - Andrea Mazzariello

Beverley Johnston

“Alternate Currents” - Ann Southam

“All Your Thens for Now” - Lawton Hall

Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion - Belá Bartók

Stephen Sondheim

Dane Richeson

Percussion Concerto - Chen Yi

“She Who Sleeps with a Small Blanket” - Kevin Volans

“Hop (2)” - Paul Lansky

Jonathan Haas

James Saporito

Ballet Mechanique - George Antheil

“Ionisation” - Edgard Varese

“Log Cabin Blues” - George Hamilton Green

“Solos 1-4” - Charles Wilcoxin

Simon Boyar

Reflections on the Nature of Water - Jacob Druckman

“Thread and Fray” - Sarah Kirkland Snider

Eduardo Leandro

Back to the Future trailer

The Midnight Sky trailer

Amanda Gorman reads the Presidential Inauguration Poem

Water Music - Tan Dun

Raves:

Sound of Metal trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 236 - Melinda Leoce (Part 2)

Melinda Leoce (Adams State University) returns to talk about her very long undergrad career at the University of Central Florida and her drum corps years (02:00), her master’s at Florida State (20:25), her work towards her doctorate at Indiana University and her Percussion Methods dissertation project (35:15), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions on well-rounded percussionists, women in percussion and band, Jennifer Lawrence, 80s and 90s action movies, Wes Anderson, Clive Cussler, and Call Me By Your Name (51:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the American Master’s Documentary Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story (01:36:15).

Links:

Part 1 with Melinda Leoce on PPP

Melinda Leoce’s website

Bright Futures Scholarship

John H. Beck

Jeff Moore

Thad Anderson

Kirk Gay

Joe W. Moore III on PPP

Oliver Molina on PPP

Magic of Orlando DCI

Luis Rivera

Carolina Crown

John W. Parks IV on PPP

Susan Powell

Joseph Krygier

“Conservatory Garden” - Dan Levitan

“New York Counterpoint” - Steve Reich

“Porgy and Bess” excerpt

Megan Arns on PPP

Anthony di Sanza

Michael Spiro

Steve Houghton

Kevin Bobo on PPP

John Tafoya

Omar Carmenates on PPP

Raychel Taylor on PPP

Eliana Yamouni

Tommy Dobbs Percussion

Jennifer Lawrence

Point Break trailer

Alien trailer

Aliens trailer

The Terminator trailer

Wes Anderson

The Royal Tenenbaums trailer

Sigur Rós

The Hangover 2 trailer

Slumdog Millionaire trailer

Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse trailer

Zombieland trailer

28 Days Later trailer

Justin Alexander on PPP

Shaun of the Dead trailer

Dirk Pitt

Sahara trailer

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Tom Clancy

Jonathan Kolm

Third Coast Percussion

Paul Lansky

Call Me By Your Name trailer

“Visions of Gideon” - Sufjan Stevens

Raves:

Never Too Late: The Doc Severinsen Story trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 235 - Melinda Leoce (Part 1)

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 234 - Tom Burritt (Part 2)

University of Texas at Austin Percussion Professor Tom Burritt returns to talk about his undergrad years at Ithaca College and developing the concept of articulation on marimba (04:15), studying with his cousin Mike at Akron (OH) and Northwestern (IL), issues of burnout and keeping the artistic fire alive, and music’s connection to athletics (16:00), and the Random Ass Questions segment, featuring a deeper dive into his love of and high school career in baseball (37:45).

Finishing with a Rave on the classic 1986 film Peggy Sue Got Married (01:23:00).

Links:

Tom Burritt’s homepage

Part 1 with Tom Burritt on PPP

Gordon Stout

Michael Burritt

Buffalo Bills and 4 Super Bowls

Blake Tyson

The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

Kobe Bryant

Mets new ownership

David Lang

“So Called Laws of Nature” - David Lang

“String of Pearls” - David Lang

Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino

Wonder Woman 1984 trailer

Sideways trailer

Moulin Rouge! trailer

Björk

“Considering Matthew Shepard”

Josh Allen

Gary Vaynerchuk

Raves:

Peggy Sue Got Married trailer

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 233 - Tom Burritt (Part 1)

University of Texas-Austin Percussion Professor Tom Burritt stops by to talk about his work with the Vocal Ensemble Conspirare, social justice, and recent controversies at the school (04:30), selecting and commissioning literature and how that has changed over the years (26:30), getting the Texas job, taking over from George Frock, the challenges of recruiting in the state, and the awesomeness of Austin (35:30), the recent problems from the deep freeze (56:30), and growing up near Buffalo, his (short) opera career, and his relationship with his cousin and fellow percussionist Michael Burritt (01:03:30).

Finishing with a Rave on The Black Church: This is Our Story. This is Our Song (01:29:20).

Links:

Tom Burritt’s University of Texas-Austin homepage

Tony Edwards

Conspirare

Craig Hella Johnson

Roomful of Teeth

Matthew Shepard Oratorio - Craig Hella Johnson

Yaz Lancaster

Texas Tribune and “The Eyes of Texas”

“Perfectly Voiceless” - Devontaé Hynes

Third Coast Percussion

Valerie Coleman

George Frock

Blake Tyson

Jerry Junkin

James Campbell

Thom Hasenpflug on PPP

Line Upon Line

Amahl and the Night Visitors - Giancarlo Menotti

Michael Burritt

David Hall

“Night Rhapsody” - John Serry

“Marimba Spiritual” - Minoru Miki

“Chaconne” - J.S. Bach

The Soup Nazi on Seinfeld

Gordon Stout

Percussion Concerto - Joseph Schwantner

Raves:

The Black Church: This is Our Story. This is Our Song

Pete Appears on Hang Up and Listen:

March 15th edition

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 232 - Damon Grant (Part 2)

Recording Percussionist, Freelancer and Podcaster Damon Grant returns to discuss his time UMass-Amherst and teaching at UMass-Dartmouth (01:50), life on the road after graduation (14:45), working in Boston in “General Business” bands and collaborating with Madonna (20:45), and the Random Ass Questions segment, including segments on his experiences as an African American in the Music Industry, his celebration of Black Panther, the food in England, and NY sports teams (33:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the Geraldine Brooks novel Year of Wonders (01:12:20).

Links:

Part 1 with Damon Grant on PPP

Damon Grant’s website

Discussions in Percussion

Damon Grant’s Black History Spotify Playlist

Gerald Myles

Peter Tanner

Jeff Holmes

Thom Hannum

Melvin Sparks

Yusef Lateef

Barry Harris

Max Roach

Iain Moyer

Stefon Harris

Jamie Eckert

Royal Hartigan

Malcolm Gladwell

Soulive

John Mayer

Kevin Antunes

New Edition and New Kids on the Block

Brian Frasier-Moore on DIP

“Strange Fruit” - Nina Simone

Black Panther trailer

Julia Child

Myron Mixon

Thug Kitchen

Blast!

Devon and Cornish Cream Tea

Borough Market

Camden Locks

1992 Pittsburgh Penguins film

NY Giants 2007 SB win over NE Patriots

NY Knicks and Rangers 1994 Season

Brass Bonanza

Chad Pennington Highlights

Ryan Fitzpatrick Jets

Tony Hawk

Terrance Osborne

Candido Camero

Raves:

Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brooks

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 231 - Damon Grant (Part 1)

Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 230 - Clif Walker

Drumline Arranger, Composer, Adjudicator, and Marching Mizzou Drumline Instructor Clif Walker stops by to talk about his collage of teaching responsibilities (03:00), his years teaching at Blue Springs High School (MO), leaving full-time teaching, and working for Mizzou (09:30), growing up in the Kansas City area and his beginnings in drum set and marching percussion (39:50), his undergrad years at Missouri Western State University (48:00), going to the University of Central Florida for his master’s degree, taking the best of Dennis Rogers and Jeff Moore’s teaching styles, and “accidentally” becoming a band director (01:00:15), and then settles in for the Random Ass Questions (01:25:20).

Finishing with a Rave on the 2021 Documentary on the life of Marian Anderson, American Experience – Voice of Freedom (01:47:45).

Links:

Clif Walker’s Mizzou page

“Treehouses” - Clif Walker

Tim Allshouse

Michael James

Tim Hinton

Amy Knopps

Julie Davila

Lalo Davila

“Hot for Teacher” - Van Halen

Kareem’s sky hook wins Magic Johnson’s first game in NBA, 1979

Dennis Rogers

Rogers Foundation of Music

“Stained Glass” - David Gillingham

“Paschal Dances” - David Gillingham

“Gate to Heaven” - David Gillingham

Campus Crusade for Christ

Jeff Moore

Thad Anderson

Kirk Gay

Omar Carmenates on PPP

Michael Bump

Lee Hansen

Steven Davis

Michael Robinson

Nacho Libre trailer

Elf trailer

Jungle 2 Jungle trailer

Atomic Habits - James Clear

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig

Frank White

1985 Kansas City Royals Highlights

Chiefs win Super Bowl 54

“Shadowchasers” - Michael Burritt

Adagio for Strings - Samuel Barber

Raves:

American Experience: Voice of Freedom