Tennessee Tech Percussion Professor Colin Hill talks about the TTU job and the BluHill Duo (03:00), growing up in Portland (OR) pole-vaulting, snow-skiing and high school rock band stardom as The Standard Issue (26:25), going to the University of North Texas for undergrad (42:10), Indiana University for the master’s (53:15), the University of Kentucky for the doctorate (01:01:10), barely surviving his year of adjunct work (01:10:10), and pushes through the Random Ass Questions (01:19:35).
Finishing with a Rave on the NBA and NHL playoffs (01:34:30).
Links:
Colin Hill’s Tennessee Tech page
Colin Hill’s Innovative Percussion page
“José/beFore John5” - Aurel Hollo
“Smells Like Teen Spirit” - Nirvana
“All the Small Things” - blink-182
North Texas Percussion Faculty
“Trio Per Uno” - Nebojsa Zivkovic
“Cold Pressed” - Dave Hollinden
“Sonata for Piano and Timpani - Anthony Cirone”
Indiana University Percussion Faculty
“Lonely City Suite” - Jason Baker
“Bell Plates” - Scott Lindroth
“The Whimsical Nature of Small Particle Physics” - Ben Wahlund
“Marimba Spiritual” - Minoru Miki
“Passacaglia” - Anna Ignatowicz
“Three Preludes” - George Gershwin
“Gretchen at the Spinning Wheel” - Franz Schubert
“Flowerpot Music No. 1” - Elliot Cole
“A Spanish Groove” - Alejandro Viñao
The 2000 Portland Trailblazers
Damian Lillard beats the Rockets
Raves: