Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 362 - Mark Ford (Part 2)

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:

Part 1 with Mark Ford

Mark Ford’s UNT webpage

Mark Ford’s Innovative Percussion Webpage

Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:

Cort McClaren in 2022

Other Links:

Harold Jones

Robert Schietroma

Jack Stamp

“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

Tim Peterman

Chris Crockarell

Row-Loff Productions

Erik Johnson

Massie Johnson

Christopher Deane

“Etude for a Quiet Hall” - Christopher Deane

Jon Metzger

Ron Fink

#Marimbababy - Mark Ford

Musicon Publications

“Head Talk” - Mark Ford

We’re the Millers trailer

This is Spinal Tap trailer

And There Was Light - Jon Meachem

John Adams - David McCullough

The Doll - Boleslaw Prus

Learning to Listen: The Jazz Journey of Gary Burton - An Autobiography - Gary Burton

Keiko Abe: A Virtuosic Life - Rebecca Kite

Bob Becker

Tony McCutcheon

Raves:

Dazed and Confused trailer

The Rewatchables - Dazed and Confused