Speeches #1--Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln, November 18, 1863, Gettysburgh Address
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Read MoreCristina and I sit in her teaching studio and talk about solo piano life, her new presenting and advocacy organization, and taking a deep breath and taking a big step (her words not mine).
http://legacyartsinternational.org
www.cristinaaltamura.com
Oscar Peterson - “A Little Jazz Exercise”
Etude, Op.10 No.3 by F. Chopin
Cenk and I talk about process, failure, Metallica, and playing one chord for 38 seconds.
www.cenkergun.com, __c.e on instragram, facebook and youtube
Solare by Cenk Ergun, performed by The Jack Quartet
Proximity by Cenk Ergun, performed by So Percussion from the record Nana
Jeremy (aka, professor Purple, Chrome Sparks, Luca Otto) and I sit down and talk about analog synthesis, recording your own music, live performance, and how he sees as his role in the world as an artist.
Read MoreSteve and I sit down and talk about composing, religion, and following the guidance of the angels around you every day.
Read MoreI sit down with two members of the Sandbox Percussion Quartet to talk about the struggles of running a percussion quartet, all over 3 fine Brooklyn beers
Goldbeaters Skin by Christopher Cerrone performed by Sandbox Percussion with mezzo-soprano, Elsbeth Davis. you’re hearing the 6th and 7th movements, Skin: Fatal Exception and Against the Madness of the Crowds
Read MoreJoan and I sit down and talk about teaching, writing music, being 80, and being one of women blazing trails in the composition world (without realizing that was what she was doing). She’s a national treasure.
DNA for Percussion Quartet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfR4VaRleuQ
I sit down in Cliff and Yuko's office at NIU and talk about his life around the national instrument of Trinidad and Tobago.
Read MoreWe have scones and catch up on family stuff and the life she's lived. We'll talk more. You'll love her as I do, I'm quite sure of it.
Read MoreDan is the General Manager of District Social, a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan. https://districtsocialnyc.com
We talk wine, the restaurant business, we curse a little, and drink a bottle of really nice chardonnay and sip some fine whiskey. Dan has a fun job. He'll be starting a podcast soon called Fancy Drunks.
Read Moresit down with 3/4 of Overground Percussion, aka TIGUE. They are charting a course no one else quite charted and they're killing it. So proud and pumped to hear them get comfy in their own skin.
Read MoreI sat down with Adam Tendler and we chatted politics, religion, music, what being 'safe' means, among many other things, all over 4 lovely Vermont Beers.
Read MoreNow that I've found the missing file/avoided sabotage, you can now hear the whole picture and decide for yourself about Todd Meehan--Mixed Martial Artist from Yale, Father, Husband, Husbandrist, Author of 4 E-Books on "husbandry as a hobby" and 6 more on "method booking for dummies" and a novella titled "A man dreams of triangles--A Story of lost love and misguided youth."
Read MoreI sit down in the early morn at #SoSI2010 in a dorm room to talk it out. I made as much lemonade as I could out of this one folks
Read MoreI sit down with Paul and Hannah at the their home in Princeton, NJ to talk about the beginning of computer music, their work together, and how they met over Mozart, as well as his work with So Percussion (and of course, Radiohead, too)
Read MoreI take a tour of Garry’s studio up at the Woodstock Chimes headquarters in upstate NY. He’s a national treasure. Congressional Record by Dean Drummond, played by Newband https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2U-G2qdodBM
Read MoreCaroline and I talk grad school insecurities, politics, Kanye, and the ethical implications of your notational style as a composer
Read MoreGarry and I sit and talk about the history/origins of the percussion ensemble as well as take a tour of his amazing instrument collection in the second episode
Read MoreI sit with Le'Roi and we talk steel bands, flute playing, black holes, and the current situation in the US Virgin Islands as we start the hurricane season
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