Percussionist, Educator, Freelancer, Steel Pan Artist, and Santa Margarita Catholic High School (CA) Director of Percussion Studies Amanda Duncan stops by to talk about her job responsibilities (and the challenging situation she took over there), freelancing in CA, and the teaching of high school steel band and drumset (02:00), her involvement with PAN ROCKS! (29:40), and growing up in Long Beach (CA), her interests in tennis, gaming, and musical theater, and her beginnings in percussion (35:45).
Finishing with a Rave on the 2005 book American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin (01:06:20).
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Other Links:
Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
“Pretty Fly for a White Guy” - The Offspring
Sheila E.’s Drum solo from Sign O’ The Times
“Cello Suite No. 1 - Prelude” - J.S. Bach
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