047 - TAPS at New England Music Camp

This episode was recorded during TAPS East Coast held at Snow Pond - the facilities of the New England Music Camp (NEMC).  We managed to include everyone, both faculty and participants, in this episode. Ted Atkatz and Shaun Tilburg are familiar faces, and we're lucky that Fiona Bryan, Director of Outreach and Communications of Snow Pond, could join us too. She's a trained violinist, and with all of our Bach conversation, she had some really interesting points to make.

Topics: NEMC, TAPS, Julia Cameron's Walking in This World, adapting Bach to marimba, orchestral auditions

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0:00 Intro and hello

1:40 History of Snow Pond Music Festival / New England Music Camp

8:58 Bringing TAPS to SPMF

10:45 Collaborating with the composition seminar

14:18 Faculty at TAPS

16:28 Touring the Vic Firth factory, Ted’s sticks, stick-making process and aesthetics

25:37 Sean Tilburg’s stick/gear preferences

29:38 Laurel: Julia Cameron – “Walking in This World”

38:27 Ted Jackson: How has TAPS changed since I attended and how do you foresee the seminar in the future?

45:46 Will Marinelli: What’s your favorite memory of New England Music Camp?

51:33 Taking Bach down an octave on marimba

1:07:33 Is it necessary to choose a path in percussion?

1:16:11 Stretches for percussionists

1:22:55 Wrap