With over 300 compositions to his credit, Willie Owens is a common name in music education. We sit down with Willie to chat about his 30 years of teaching band in Texas, his approach to honor bands, influential mentors, his recent honorary doctorate from VanderCook, presidential history, and corvettes. Peter brought not one but two beverages, Phil looked confused, and Chris continued to struggle with creating complete sentences. Thank goodness for Eric Songer and his students for another installment of Rapping with Songer.
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Manilow, B. (1975). I Write the Songs [Song]. On Tryin’ to Get the Feeling. Arista Records. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_tnxTKuaK4
Spielberg, S. (Director). (1977). Close encounters of the third kind [Film]. Columbia Pictures. https://youtu.be/wZj7gUIO-2k?si=n1TyRRH8yQAcO_d7
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