Interviews, topics, and discussion
Episodes
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
Thursday Mar 19, 2020
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0:00 Intro and hello
1:30 What are you up to these days?
3:50 Your approach to memorizing music?
6:06 A significant moment that changed or sculpted your career? Tomer's teachers.
11:44 Lineage of percussion duos and your chamber music contributions?
14:10 Transitioning from being a heavy player to an organizer and administrator?
21:04 How did you decide to finish PercaDu?
31:07 Any particular piece that you feel defines you as an artist? Working with composers and commissioning pieces.
33:30 Casey: Empathy and art, reading is good for mankind.
44:00 Picking your collaborators?
52:26 Administration and organization?
59:00 Udacrep Akubrad
1:01:50 Casey: today in music history: Composer Robert Muczynski is born; Axeman killer of New Orleans.
1:08:00 Coming to the states? Future plans?
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
Thursday Mar 12, 2020
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0:00 Intro and hello
1:25 Your friendship with Emil Richards?
7:50 Spending time with Elvin Jones?
11:30 Yamaha
16:30 The evolution of your career? Going from being an educator to Artist Relations?
28:05 The friendliness of competition in the industry
30:45 Being a good clinician
42:25 Snare drum sound and the personality of a song
49:15 10 things I wish I knew?
51:55 Casey: What's the sound - "superball" history
1:04:25 2 things, from 10 things I wish I knew.
Thursday Mar 05, 2020
Thursday Mar 05, 2020
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0:00 Intro and hello
1:35 Your new book?
6:07 The framework and structure you improvise within? Your style of improvisation.
15:50 The loose structure described in your etudes?
18:40 Any listening suggestions?
23:46 The relationship between improvisation and composition?
29:40 Your snare features for Black Swamp Percussion?
36:40 Studying with Gordon Stout?
41:34 How do you listen differently when you know you're listening to something composed vs something improvised?
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
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0:00 Intro and Hello, superballs
2:40 Flinstones drumtrack video performance?
11:00 Social media
18:30 Your travels, differences around the world? Playing in New York City?
26:00 Your teachers? Steve Houghton and Ari Hoenig
27:40 Finding your sound
30:14 Ben: Max Roach
40:10 Your CD, "Two Worlds"?
43:55 Rothko painting behind you?
46:50 Casey: Today in music history
Thursday Feb 20, 2020
Thursday Feb 20, 2020
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0:00 intro and hello
3:20 Your schoolmates? Matt Strauss and John Mackey
8:36 Your teachers? Jonathan Haas and Alan Abel
14:15 Percussion in Virginia
20:00 Director of the Sewanee Festival?
35:00 The donation and giving side of administration?
45:30 Karli: Creatures of Habit
1:05:20 Casey: History (Feb.13th)
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
Thursday Feb 13, 2020
with: Ben Charles, Karli Vina, Ksenija Komljenovic, Bill Shaltis, Caleb Pickering, Brian Nozny, Casey Cangelosi.
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0:00 Intro and Hello
4:40 The "strengths/weaknesses" question..
12:10 What to play at the performance portion?
21:12 Recruiting questions?
28:28 Marching Band
34:05 Tell us about a time you resolved a student conflict?
38:00 Why do you want THIS job?
45:30 Good questions to ask the committee?
51:53 How are you innovative in your teaching?
56:10 How would you promote diversity and inclusion?
1:00:43 Asking all candidates the same questions
1:05:50 Why should we pick you over the other candidates?
1:09:20 Some advice
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
Thursday Feb 06, 2020
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0:00 Intro and hello 2:32 Passing the Coordinator of the Composition Program at Yale University role to Christopher Theofanidis
5:02 Working with Robert van Sice on Grace, double marimba concerto
8:50 How to write for the marimba, considering its advantages and challenges
13:45 The concept of composers exploiting shortcomings of the instrument
17:16 How to approach composing openings of pieces
22:07 Martin’s music inspired by/married to other works of art
30:05 Should art be separated from (the morality and political ideologies of) the artist?
39:00 Martin’s chamber opera My Friend’s Story and Chekhov’s “Strakh”
40:58 Specificity of writing for percussion - Sō Percussion and Caprichos Enfaticos
42:34 Paul Lansky – a friend from High School of Music & Art in New York
43:56 Ben Charles: report on György Ligeti
52:44 Meeting Ligeti and early encounters
58:25 Ligeti’s Six Bagatelles – a little secret about Ligeti’s writing (Romanian folk song)
59:31 The becoming of Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre
1:03:45 Ligeti’s Horn Trio
1:05:57 Ligeti – Magyarization of a German name
1:07:18 Nancarrow’s influence on Ligeti
1:08:26 Ligeti: “Martin, who do you think is the greatest living composer?”
1:13:40 A grand lesson from Ligeti
1:15:45 Ligeti’s 70th birthday and meeting Mandelbrot
1:22:30 Poème symphonique for 100 metronomes
1:25:00 Writing an autobiography?
1:26:10 Storytelling
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
Thursday Jan 30, 2020
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0:00 Intro and hello
1:10 RIP Neil Peart. Rush and some favorites. Casey on Neil Peart
17:20 Ben on Mark Applebaum
27:33 Bill on social media and "Digital Minimalism" (book).
43:20 Caleb on "Performing in the Zone" & "The Inner Game of Golf" (books)
1:01:50 Brian on "How to Fear Less"
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
Thursday Jan 23, 2020
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0:00 Intro and hello
4:30 Residency at U. of Richmond?
7:40 Your other academic degrees and educational background?
11:50 Interdisciplinary projects?
23:50 Reich Double Sextet?
30:40 Singing in the Dead of Night?
34:50 Favorite performance highlights and some not so good ones?
43:50 Casey: history: Duke Ellington, Judy Collins
54:45 Thoughts on "Red"(play) by John Logan? Grammy's.
1:10:00 Composers and gear?!
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
Thursday Jan 16, 2020
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0:00 Intro and hello
5:10 How did you get into percussion?
9:30 Marching percussion's influence on your concert playing?
12:30 Your playing style, ethics or aesthetics?
15:00 Drumcorps background?
15:55 Icarus Quartet?
22:20 Developing a long-term chamber group project?
30:20 Michael Laurello's music? Spine, Churches Made out of Shipwrecks
35:30 Karli: Encouraging middle and high school percussionists to be well-rounded
44:40 Peabody and teaching, percussion specialization
49:40 Casey: History - Jan 16th: Bartok Sonata, Xenakis' thesis, Benny Goodman plays the first ever jazz concert at Carnegie Hall
1:02:19 The Percussion Collective
1:11:12 What do you do other than music?