Podcasts about sousa archives

On this episode of “One More Time,” we’re talking about wind band works that have been dedicated to people, movements, and ideas, with a specific focus on environmentalism and sustainability. We’re joined by Steven Bryant, a freelance composer who’s studied composition at the Juilliard School, North Texas University, and Ouachita University and the composer of “The Automatic Earth;” Viet Cuong, the California Symphony’s 2020-2023 Young American Composer-in-Residence and composer of “Re(new)al;”and Dr. Jay Watkins, who works at the University of Florida as the Associate Director of Bands, Director of Athletic Bands, Assistant Professor in the School of Music and as the Director of the “Pride of the Sunshine” - The Gator Marching Band. Cindy Severino provides us with our Two Minute Rehearsal Technique, and Scott Schwartz of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music joins to tell us about pieces that Sousa wrote and dedicated.

Harry Partch (1901-1974) enjoyed an extended residency at the University of Illinois from 1956-1962, where he continued his work to invent new instruments and compose new music for them. His work has  inspired student composers at Illinois for generations.  In this episode Kerrith Livengood introduces three student compositions written for one of Partch's best known inventions, the adapted viola. Selections heard in this podcast:When This Fire Dies, Our Shadows Roam for adapted guitar and adapted viola, by Stephen Caldwell Piece for adapted viola by Joshua Iyer"Gabriel Thomas" from  Night Partches for adapted viola and intoned voice by Ralph Lewis. Performed by Luke Fitzpatrick. Harry Partch Estate Archives, 1918-1991 Finding Aid at the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music.

In this Black History Month episode of “One More Time: A Wind Band Podcast,” we’re diving into what it’s like to be a Black American in the music field through conversations with three Black undergraduate students of music at the University of Illinois and the Juilliard School (Ivana Owana, Njioma Grevious, and Kayla Williams), as well as Dr. Kelvin Jones, Assistant Director of Bands and the Director of the Marching Tigers at Louisiana State University. This episode also has an interview with Scott Schwartz, Director of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, about James Reese Europe, a Black American jazz bandleader and composer during the turn of the 20th century, as well as our Two Minute Rehearsal Technique with Dr. Erica Neidlinger of DePaul University.

In this episode of “One More Time: A Wind Band Podcast,” we’re exploring the role of multi-instrumentalists in wind bands through interviews with Andrew Nichols: Middle and high school band director, woodwind doubler, and professional performer; Dr. Gail Robertson: Assistant Professor of Tuba and Euphonium and Head of the Jazz Dept. at the University of Central Arkansas and president of the International Tuba Association; and Ryan O’Connell: Composer, orchestrater, arranger, and writer. This episode also has a chat with Scott Schwartz, Director of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, about how Sousa’s training as a multi-instrumentalist influenced his work, as well as our Two Minute Rehearsal Technique with Dr. Matthew Sadowski. Produced by Louie Yockey and Evan Matthews.

For the first “One More Time: A Wind Band Podcast” episode of Season 4, we explore the intersection of gender identity and band through interviews with Emma Joy Jampole (she/her): Doctor of Philosophy Candidate, Curriculum and Instruction, Music Education, and Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Wisconsin Madison; Dr. Megan Eagen-Jones (they/them): Lecturer in Musicology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; Amy McCabe (she/her): Trumpeter/Cornetist Gunnery Sergeant in the “President’s Own” United States Marine Band. Scott Schwartz discusses women who challenged the traditional gender stereotypes in the time of Sousa in our “From the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music” segment and Dr. David Thornton discusses our Two Minute Rehearsal Technique.

Established in 1963, the University of Illinois Archives includes thousands of cubic feet of office records, publications, and personal papers from the University and the Urbana-Champaign campus. This is one of three service locations – others include the Sousa Archives across the street in the Band Building, and the Student Life and Culture Archives in […]

"One More Time" explores banding in Australia. We are joined on this episode by Joanne Heaton (doctoral candidate, Sydney Conservatorium of Music and music teacher at Our Lady of Sion College), Bruce Herriman (Principal, Instrumental Music School Services at Department of Education and Training, Western Australia), Rob McWilliams (Educational Outreach Clincian, Yamaha Australia), Monte Mumford (retired band director and Advisor and Lead Educator for the Melbourne Youth Orchestra Teacher Professional Development Programme), and John Lynch (Associate Professor, Sydney Conservatorium of Music). Scott Schwartz (Director of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music) provides a story of Sousa's trip to Australia with his band, and the Source Material segment is about "Into the Sun" by Australian composer, Jodie Blackshaw.

The American Wind Symphony Orchestra and their conductor Robert Boudreau are the focus of this month's episode. There are several guests throughout our episode within the segments, including Scott Schwartz (Director, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music), Chip DeStefano (Director, McCracken Middle School), Mark Connor (Everything Band podcast), and Dr. David Biedenbender (Assistant Professor of Composition, Michigan State University), and a rehearsal peek with Dr. Andrew Boysen, Jr. (Professor of Music, University of New Hampshire) leading the All-Illinois Junior Band.

This episode takes the listener through a game day with the Marching Illini. We will be visited by several guests, including Scott Schwartz (Director, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music), H. Robert Reynolds (retired Director of Bands, University of Michigan), Dr. J. Ashley Jarrell (Director of Instrumental Music, University of North Georgia), and Dr. Eli Fieldsteel (Assistant Professor of Composition-Theory and Director of the Experimental Music Studio, University of Illinois).

Scott Schwartz, director of the Sousa Archives and Center for American Music, and Paul Warnik, a steel-guitar historian/collector tell us the little known story of the rare Grand Letar and it’s mysterious but prolific creator Letritia Kandle.

This episode focuses on the relationship between bands and athletic activities. We will be visited by several guests, including Scott Schwartz (Director, Sousa Archives and Center for American Music), Prof. Bernhard Scully (Professor of Horn, University of Illinois and Member of the Canadian Brass), Prof. Betsy McCann (Director of Athletic Bands, University of Minnesota), Prof. Barry Houser (Director of Athletic Bands, University of Illinois), Quinten Breach (Member, Marching Illini), and Josh Whitman (Director of Athletics, University of Illinois).