Indiana University (IU) Percussion Professor Kevin Bobo talks about getting the IU job and his percussion colleagues (02:25), getting sick during his interview there (13:00), basketball madness at Wichita State, KU and IU (27:10), his publishing and composing career (33:45), what happens when you write really hard music (43:10), growing up in rural Kansas and Missouri (50:20), playing really hard lit as a teenager (01:00:45), securing practice space during his undergrad at Wichita State (01:07:35), going to Ithaca College for his master’s (01:17:50), funding a CD by playing marimba in bars (01:27:50), developing his performing sense of humor (01:37:00), and withstanding my Random-Ass Questions (01:47:50).

Finishing with a Rave on the Jose Saramago novels Blindness and Seeing (02:01:00)

Links:

Kevin Bobo's Indiana University website

Kevin Bobo's Mostly Marimba Music page

Kevin Bobo's Percmaster Works page

Cameleon - Eric Sammut

"Rumble Strips" - Gordon Stout

"Marriage of the Lamb" - Kevin Bobo

Indiana University Percussion Department

Dennis Rogers

Leigh Howard Stevens

"Northern Lights" - Eric Ewazen