A Landmark Episode means a Landmark Guest! Pete’s Grad School (UNCG) Mentor Cort McClaren stops by to talk about his text The Book of Percussion Pedagogy and its beginnings (04:30), his effective way of running repertoire class (21:40), how his ideas of pedagogy and musicianship developed from his musical training in Hutchinson, Kansas, studying at Wichita State (KS) with J.C. Combs, teaching swimming lessons in high school, and watching other types of musical ensembles rehearse (33:00), the “push down” principle to performance and music learning, and the “four levels” (52:00), the beginnings of C. Alan Publications (01:03:15), and moving away from his active performing career while seeing that he was “born to be a teacher” (01:16:00).

Finishing with a professional Announcement and a Request (01:25:55).

Links:

Cort McClaren’s composer page at C. Alan Publications

C. Alan Publications

The Book of Percussion Pedagogy - Cort McClaren

National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy (NCPP)

Nathan Daughtrey on the podcast in 2020

Laura Franklin on the podcast in 2016

Teaching Percussion - Gary Cook

Percussion in the School Music Program - Al Payson

“Yellow After the Rain” - Mitchell Peters

J.C. Combs