Interviews, topics, and discussion
Episodes
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
Thursday Jan 09, 2020
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0:00 Intro and hello, New Years Resolutions 4:40 Your background and mentors: Katarzyna Mycka and Li Biao? 11:50 Why is the marimba so special? 17:30 Teaching connecting your body with the instrument 22:55 Creating your own mallets? 29:20 Transcription of the Rodrigo Concerto? 37:47 What do you look for when considering adapting or arranging a piece for marimba? 40:00 Bit on programming 41:40 Casey: Music history - Beethoven's nephew 53:28 Differences in marimba performance styles in US and Europe? 58:47 How do you mentor your students towards a career?
Thursday Jan 02, 2020
Thursday Jan 02, 2020
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210 Roundtable - Bill Shaltis, Ben Charles, Karli Vina, Ksenija Komljenović, Casey Cangelosi
0:00 Intro and hello
1:40 Favorite artists? Any you talk about in relation to music and/or pedagogy? Henry Darger, outsider artists, Marina Abramovic, NPR This American Life, themed recitals, Chef's Table - Grant Achatz, Julian Edelman
40:40 Applying for teaching jobs
58:55 If you had to write a second dissertation?
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
Thursday Dec 26, 2019
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209 Alexandre Esperet 0:00 Intro and hello
0:55 RIP and thanks to Emil Richards
5:17 Hello to Alexandre Esperet, Ceci n'est pas une balle (This is not a ball)
10:00 Are you going to continue expanding body percussion? What new ideas might be next?
14:30 Working with Thierry de Mey?
18:00 Differences in performers and/or performance practice from country to country?
23:50 Studying with Jean Geoffroy? Approach to playing Bach?
28:50 (Briefly derailed by the chat window and L'Histoire vs Histoire)
31:05 How has performing in competitions influenced you as a performer?
35:12 Do competitions promote artistic growth?
43:12 Where do you see yourself in 5 or 10 years?
44:44 Casey: today in history - Duke Ellington "Beggar's Holiday". Duke Ellington and Gary Burton.
53:10 Influences on your compositional style? 56:00 Graphic notation and Labanotation.
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
Thursday Dec 19, 2019
208 David Herbet
Art by JeonIm Yi - www.jiyfineart.com - check her out!
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0:00 Intro and hello
4:40 Exercise off the drums?
6:50 Timpani solo pieces you reccomend/favorites?
9:50 How did you come to develop your sound?
15:20 Mallets and opinions
25:12 Metalica gig?
28:00 Conductors you've worked with.
34:15 Working with Jack van Geem?
40:00 Ben: William Kraft
1:02:20 Some thoughts on audience-performer relationship. Building audience.
1:11:28 Why'd you switch from American to German setup?
1:17:55 Approach when playing a work with 2 timpanists?
1:20:20 A bit on surffing for some reason.
Thursday Dec 12, 2019
Thursday Dec 12, 2019
Roundtable with:
Ben Charles, Ksenija Komljenović, Brian Nozny, Bill Shaltis, Caleb Pickering, Tracy Wiggins, Casey Cangelosi
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0:00 Intro and hello
4:20 What are some skills needed other than playing for the 21st Century percussionist? Recording.
16:15 The War of Art, book. Casey rant. 10,000 hours...guh....Gladwell.
29:07 Percussion Specialist certificate/program? Traditions in the curriculum (music history Ben rant)
53:10 Difficult performance experiences?
1:02:50 PASIC highlights?
1:08:15 Casey's and Brian's premiers at PASIC
1:14:43 Casey: History. Copland and the FBI, Mozart's death.
Thursday Dec 05, 2019
Thursday Dec 05, 2019
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0:00 Intro and hello
4:00 Recent move to Minneapolis
9:00 How have you crafted your career to collaborate with so many ensembles, musicians, and composers?
12:45 Matt, Shaun, and Casey - studies at Rice
14:45 Karli: Freelancing and comparing yourself to others.
30:55 Matt's new timpani book?
44:40 Ewe drumming?
55:43 Casey: history
58:00 Casey: speed quiz
1:04:10 Trio?
Thursday Nov 28, 2019
Thursday Nov 28, 2019
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PAS Education Committee (Part 2, collegiate percussionists) with Tom Marceau Chase Banks, Oliver Molina, Scott Farkas
0:00 Intro and hello
4:10 How to approach Applied Lessons for students not on the 'performance' or 'education' tracks?
11:40 Recordings instead of juries? Continuing the traditional live performance model?
30:00 Building a studio and recruiting. All-State/Region music selection and auditions.
46:30 Most important take-aways from the Percussion Methods class?
50:15 The PAS Educator's Companion publication 55:56 New certification programs?
1:08:40 Best help students prepare for a future career in percussion?
Thursday Nov 21, 2019
Thursday Nov 21, 2019
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PAS Education Committee (Part 1, young percussionists) - Pete DeSalvo, Ben Runkel, Brandon Arvay, Chris Dandeles, Kyle Lutes, Karli Vina, Casey Cangelosi
0:00 Intro and hello
4:50 The best starting percussion instrument for students?
12:55 Helping young students begin mallets
15:40 Directors who just put percussionists on the instruments they can already play...
24:35 How can we encourage non-percussionists educators to participate in PAS events, publications etc... ?
36:11 Helping students prepare for college auditions?
49:25 Tuning timpani?
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
Thursday Nov 14, 2019
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Ksenija Komljenović, Ben Charles, Brian Nozny, Brian Blume, Caleb Pickering, Casey Cangelosi
0:00 Intro and hello, middle name/last name banter
4:10 Ksenija's new job. Duo concerto?
9:05 What are the top 3-5 innovations you'd like to see in percussion (app., instrument...anything)?
vibe motors, metronome apps., pedal marimba and mallet dampening. Instruments changing too much/too little, good/bad.
34:20 If you weren't doing percussion, what would you do instead? Importance of other interests. External validations?
40:47 Quality rep., instruments, or players...?
53:10 The roles social media plays for us?
1:07:40 Caleb: Eastman going to China
Thursday Nov 07, 2019
Thursday Nov 07, 2019
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0:00 Intro and hello
3:40 School, education, and background?
8:23 Studying with Morris Palter and Steve Schick?
13:00 Picking the next school?
26:16 Recent controversy over highly sexulized ads by Xymox Drum pads
39:30 Karli: "Barbie, Crusher of Aspirations" study.
43:50 Red Fish Blue Fish highlights?
47:20 Concerto commission?
51:00 "Mariel" by Osvaldo Golijov?
53:15 Your DMA duties?
56:23 Music in Australia vs USA?
59:13 Casey: Today in history - historic marimba recital, Ligeti & Stockhausen's "Gesang der Jünglinge" (1955/1956)