He's back again because we like him so much.
Topics: festivals (including ZMF - Zeltsman Marimba Festival), commissioning and consortiums, the National Endowment for the Arts website, and ?
0:00 Zeltsman Marimba Festival TV interviewTopics: festivals (including ZMF - Zeltsman Marimba Festival), commissioning and consortiums, the National Endowment for the Arts website, and ?
3:02 Intro and hello
3:42 Behind the scenes at ZMF
8:36 Laurel: National Endowment for the Arts
15:20 Steve Snowden’s “Long Distance” consortium commission
17:58 Creative ways to commission / Mark Applebaum’s “Composition Machine No. 1”
23:43 Find a change to be distinctive and stand out
26:12 Composers Circle and New Music USA
27:26 Opinions on crowd funding
30:10 Megan: Summer Percussion Festivals
37:59 Carlos Johnson: Is there anything you’d love to see more young percussionists or composers do in regards to sound exploration, performing, commissions, etc. Do you feel anything lacking in recent percussion performances or repertoire? Is there anything you’d love to see or hear more or less of?
48:06 Zach Albright: I’d love to hear you talk about the balance between technical ability vs. musicality. Often times they are placed at odds with each other, but I don’t necessarily think that needs to be the case.
53:32 “Sharpening the Saw” and decompressing
1:01:04 Nief-Norf Summer Festival
1:06:14 Wrap
