Episode 193 - Paula Crider
Everything Band Podcast
Paula Crider has had an illustrious 33 year teaching career as a band director, 17 of those as the director of the University of Texas Longhorn Band. She continues to be powerful voice in the band community as a clinician and consultant.
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Episode 192 - JaRod Hall
Everything Band Podcast
JaRod Hall is a band director in Frisco, Texas and an up and coming composer at the beginning of his writing career. He is infectiously positive throughout our conversation about his creative journey, including a discussion of representation and why it matters for our students.
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Episode 191 - Greg Bimm
Everything Band Podcast
Greg Bimm has been the band director at Marian Catholic in Chicago for 44 years. During his time there his bands have been consistently excellent both on the marching field and on the stage, including Bands of America's Grand National Champion seven times and a whopping 40 straight years undefeated in their class at the Illinois Superstate competition.
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Episode 190 - Alfred Watkins
Everything Band Podcast
Alfred Watkins was the longtime band director at Lasseter High School in Georgia and one of the finest band directors of his generation. He joins the show to talk about his career and share the wisdom from his 37 years as an instrumental music teacher.
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Episode 189 - James Swearingen
Everything Band Podcast
James Swearengen has composed over 700 published works and is one of the most recognizable names in the wind band community. He joins me to discuss not only his music but also the story his early career as a band director and some of the wisdom he has acquired over a stellar career.
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Episode 188 - Ronnie Wooten
Everything Band Podcast
Dr. Ronald Wooten is a professor of music at Northern Illinois University and has a long history of success as a band director and music educator. He joined the show to spin an entertaining story of his life and share some tremendous wisdom.
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Episode 187 - Colin Peters and Jake Walker
Everything Band Podcast
In this special episode we welcome Colin Peters and Jake Walker to the podcast and interview them to learn their stories and hear their plans for the future of the podcast. Topics covered include origin stories, teaching during COVID, teaching beginners, and their answers to the big questions.
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Episode 186 - Tonya Mitchell-Spradlin
Everything Band Podcast
Tonya Mitchell-Spradlin is the director of bands at Penn State University. She joined the show to share the story of her career, challenges that she has faced, and some thoughts about concert band programming.
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Episode 185 - Jared Cassedy
Everything Band Podcast
Jared Cassedy is the current band director at Lexington High School in Massachusetts, after teaching in New Hampshire for many years. He was the 2015 recipient of the Grammy Music Educator of the Year award and offers some great perspective for all band directors.
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Episode 184 - Steve Danyew
Everything Band Podcast
Steve Danyew is a composer living in Rochester, New York. He has written several very successful for band, including Magnolia Star and Into the Silent Land.
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Composer Alex Shapiro kicks off year two of the podcast with a terrific conversation about her career and her remarkable perspectives about composing and music.
Topics:
- How growing up in New York City with two very supportive parents helped Alex to a career in music.
- The importance of “showing up” and how it leads to amazing connections and opportunities.
- Her remarkable story about her transition from writing commercial music for media to becoming a concert composer and then how she got involved in writing for band.
- Her creative process and the story of how a glass of Scotch and the frustration of a late night led to the creation of her work Paper Cut.
Links:
- Alex Shapiro, Composer
- Resources for Programming Music
- Alex Shapiro: Paper Cut
- Alex Shapiro: Rock Music
- The Portfolio Composer Podcast
- Steven Pressfield: The War of Art
- Leonard Bernstein’s Harvard Lectures
- Johan Sebastian Bach: The Italian Concerto, Movement II
Biography:
Composer Alex Shapiro aligns note after note with the hope that at least a few of them will actually sound good next to each other. Her persistence at this activity, as well as non-fiction music writing, arts advocacy, public speaking, wildlife photography, and the shameless instigation of insufferable puns on Facebook, has led to a happy life. Drawing from a broad musical palette that giddily ignores genre, Alex's acoustic and electroacoustic works are published by Activist Music LLC, performed and broadcast daily, and can be found on nearly thirty commercial releases from record labels around the world.