Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 384 - Louis Raymond-Kolker Pete's Percussion Podcast - Pete Zambito

High Point University (NC) Professor of Percussion, Theory and Composition Louis Raymond-Kolker stops by to chat about HPU, North Carolina, and teaching at Appalachian State and Winston-Salem State (02:25), getting into composing and the art of teaching composition (26:05), growing up in Austin, TX and getting into all things percussion (37:40), his undergrad years at Texas A&M-Commerce and his time in drum corps (49:05), his masters years at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (01:08:15), his gap year before heading to North Carolina, including his time as a USPS letter carrier (01:18:45), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions segment, including discussions of “The Percussion Canon”, Jhumpa Lahiri, Miyazaki movie scores, and “Dave the Diver” (01:26:45).
Finishing with a Rave on the 2023 film The Zone of Interest (01:52:35).
Louis Raymond-Kolker Links:
Louis Raymond-Kolker’s website
Louis Raymond-Kolker’s High Point University website
Previous Podcast Guests mentioned:
Danny Frye in 2018
Christopher Thompson in 2020
Dave Hall in 2020
Brian Zator in 2017
Other Links:
Mat Campbell
Brian Meixner
North Carolina Brass Band
Inside Out Steelband
Austin Percussion Collective
High Point University Community Orchestra
Diana Loomer
Gordon Stout
Liam Teague
Greg Beyer
Greg Simon
Partita for Eight Voices - Caroline Shaw
Discovering the Waterfront - Silverstein
“Remember, Marimba” - Errollyn Wallen
“Dream of the Cherry Blossoms” - Keiko Abe
“Time for Marimba” - Minoru Miki
Guardians DBC
Great Plains International Marimba Competition
Hayao Miyazaki
Jhumpa Lahiri
DAVE THE DIVER
Raves:
The Zone of Interest trailer