University of North Texas (UNT) Coordinator of Percussion Studies Mark Ford returns to talk about getting his undergrad music education degree from East Carolina University (ECU) (03:00), getting his Master’s Degree from UNT and following with teaching stints at Murray State (KY) and Middle Tennessee State (10:10), his years teaching at ECU, working with Christopher Deane, the high level NC programs being built in the 1980s and 1990s, and developing Musicon Publications after acquiring the musical rights to Innovative Percussion’s catalog (31:30), and finishing with the Random Ass Questions, with segments on new percussion literature, great films, classics of Polish literature, the Green Bay Packers, and driving the wrong direction in California for PASIC (48:35).
Finishing with a Rave on the 1993 film Dazed and Confused and the 2018 podcast The Rewatchables: Dazed and Confused (01:20:30).
Mark Ford Links:
Mark Ford’s Innovative Percussion Webpage
Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:
Other Links:
“Sonata for Timpani” - John H. Beck
“Two Movements for Marimba” - Toshimitsu Tanaka
“Two Mexican Dances” - Gordon Stout
Concertino for Marimba and Orchestra - Paul Creston
Concerto for Marimba - Robert Kurka
“Etude for a Quiet Hall” - Christopher Deane
And There Was Light - Jon Meachem
Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton - An Autobiography - Gary Burton
Keiko Abe: A Virtuosic Life - Rebecca Kite
Raves: