Outgoing University of Arizona Percussion Professor Norman Weinberg talks about his current job status (02:40), when he did NOT meet Pete in 1997 (05:35), getting and negotiating for the job at Arizona (07:50), the status of electronic percussion in the 1980s (12:45), Texas vs. Arizona weather (37:30), growing up in Kansas City, Kansas (40:00), going to Kansas University for undergrad (01:01:40), leaving undergrad to drum with Sanctuary (and reuniting in 2014) (01:13:30), thoughts on 1970s nostalgia and movements in pop music (01:34:00), making a career in music post-Sanctuary (01:41:10), teaching and performing in Jerusalem (01:45:55), and working at the Spoleto festivals (01:55:50). He then delightfully succumbs to some Random-Ass Questions (02:02:05).
Finishing with a Rave on “Sing, Sing, Sing” (02:16:15).
Links:
Norm Weinberg's Arizona homepage
"Two Mexican Dances" - Gordon Stout
"Chrysoprase IV" - Norman Weinberg
"Variations on Japanese Children's Songs" - Keiko Abe
"Fugue from Sonata in G Minor" - J.S. Bach
"Duettino Concertante" - Ingolf Dahl
Highway 61 Revisited - Bob Dylan
"Tom Dooley" - The Kingston Trio
"If I Had A Hammer" - Peter, Paul and Mary
"El Cumbanchero" - Dick Schory's Percussion Pops
"You Really Got Me" - The Kinks
Keith Moon's drum kit explodes
"Ostinato Pianissimo" - Henry Cowell (Paul Price's group)
"Get Closer" - Seals and Crofts
"Only You Know and I Know" - Delaney and Bonnie
"Yummy Yummy Yummy" - 1910 Fruitgum Company
"I'll Never Find Another You" - The Seekers
Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance
"Everything in Its Right Place" - Radiohead
"Paranoid Android" - Radiohead
Raves