South Dakota State Percussion Professor Aaron Ragsdale hears about last week’s podcast (01:40), getting the job at SDSU (02:20), growing up in Fayetteville, AR (22:50), the UNLV-Arkansas 1991 basketball game and Scotty Thurman’s shot against Duke (34:20), School Theater and writing a One-Act Play in high school (40:00), going to the University of Oklahoma for undergrad (44:15), being a “gunslinger percussionist” (56:10), going to Arkansas to study under his father for his master’s (01:07:50), doing his doctorate at Rutgers (01:18:00), and going for some Random-Ass Questions (01:36:35).
Finishing with a rave on a work by Alfred Schnittke (01:52:10).
Links:
Aaron Ragsdale's South Dakota State page
Aaron Ragsdale's Innovative Percussion Page
SDSU-Maryland 2015 NCAAs highlights
"Concertino" - Toshiro Mayuzumi
"Meditation and Dance" - David Steinquest
"Sonata for Timpani" - John Beck
"American Suite" - Guy Gauthreaux
"Furioso and Valse in D Minor" - Earl Hatch
UNLV-Arkansas 1991 (the punch)
1964 Arkansas Razorbacks football
The Mousetrap - Agatha Christie
"Fantasy on Japanese Wood Prints" - Alan Hovhaness
"Adventures of Ivan" - Aram Khachaturian/L.H. Stevens
"French Suite" - William Kraft
"Northern Lights" - Eric Ewazen
"Gate to Heaven" - David Gillingham
Eight Pieces for Four Timpani - Elliot Carter
"Beneath the Canopy" - Philip Parker
"Nagoya Marimbas" - Steve Reich
"Velocities" - Joseph Schwantner
"EDGE (Corrugated Box)" - Bruce Hamilton
"Wanna Be Startin Something" - Michael Jackson
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
March Trilogy - John Lewis and Andrew Aydin
Raves:
"Collected Songs Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief" - Alfred Schnittke