Episode 2: "Culture Before Technique"

Episode 002 • March 4, 2024 • “Culture Before Technique”

 

FIRST STRAIN: News ‘n’ Notes

• Ralph Yarl makes Missouri All-State Band a year after being mistaken for an intruder and shot:

https://abcnews.go.com/US/ralph-yarl-named-missouri-state-band-months-after/story?id=106232534

• University of Arizona marching band wins 2023 Sudler Trophy:

https://news.arizona.edu/story/pride-arizona-marching-band-wins-prestigious-sudler-trophy

https://sousafoundation.net/sub_menu_items/1

 

SECOND STRAIN: Do What You Love: A Lesson About Band from a Journalism Professor

Howard M. Ziff:

https://rhammerton1.wordpress.com/2012/04/11/gotta-love-it/

http://www.gazettenet.com/2012/04/11/venerated-journalist-professor-ziff-dies

 

TRIO: interview with Zoe Stinson

She’s a music teacher, she’s a researcher, she’s a salsa band baritone saxophonist! … and if you’ve been in western Massachusetts in the last several years, you also may have seen her, possibly on the podium in front of some outfit called the Minuteman Marching Band, or behind the wheel of a Pioneer Valley Transit Authority bus. Renaissance person? Or just casting her net really wide?

 

A chat about a beginner-band teaching strategy which Ms. Stinson piloted at her East Windsor (Connecticut) teaching gig, which she calls “Culture Before Technique”.

 

STINSON BIO:

Zoe Stinson is a music educator and instrumentalist originally from the Capitol Region of New York, and currently teaches grade 5-8 Band, Chorus, and General Music at East Windsor (CT) Middle School. Zoe grew up studying saxophone, cello, and voice, but always gravitated towards saxophone. In 2016, Zoe was selected to perform at NYSSMA Conference All-State, and to perform in the International Performance Series at Carnegie Hall. Zoe furthered her saxophone studies at Eastman, Crane, Hartt, and University of Oklahoma summer programs throughout high school and college, and has performed in masterclasses for virtuosos such as Arno Bornkamp, Chien-Kwan Lin, and Christopher Creviston.

In 2017, Zoe attended the University of Massachusetts Amherst for Saxophone Performance. While she studied at UMass, Zoe was heavily involved in numerous activities as a student musician. Zoe was initiated into Tau Beta Sigma, National Honorary Sorority for Collegiate Bands