Following a brief mention of #tenurejosh…Composer, Conductor, and Professor of Composition at Lehman College (NY) Jennifer Jolley stops by to talk about her Fulbright Scholarship in Egypt, her teaching schedule there, Ramadan, and names (04:25), her receiving the Opera America Grant, her previous attempts at writing opera, getting commissioned, and doing the “pre-work” to composition (23:30), teaching composition students, outdated techniques, and a history of music departments (45:20), growing up in southern California, learning piano, and her fandom of The Beach Boys and the Los Angeles Dodgers (54:30), studying composition at the University of Southern California for undergrad (01:09:00), taking time off of her studies to teach and work in Vermont (01:15:50), going to the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music (CCM) for her master’s and doctorate (01:21:30), teaching at Ohio Wesleyan University and Texas Tech prior to teaching at Lehman (01:30:10), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, including portions on resumé inflation, sexism in academia, Olivia Wilde, Ted Lasso, great foods, and the poet Maggie Smith (01:38:40).

Finishing with a Rave on traveling, Toronto, and the Art Gallery of Ontario (02:00:00).

Links to guests mentioned who appeared on past Pete’s Percussion Podcast Shows:

Josh Jones in 2020 (Part 1 and Part 2)

Emily Salgado in 2021

Joshua Simonds in 2022

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