May 17, 2024 • 13 mins
Discover the symphony of talent and education at UT Tyler's Summer Music Camps, where young musicians refine their skills and forge friendships that resonate beyond the last note. Dr. Sarah Roberts discusses the Brass Camp, led by Dr. Jeremy McBain with clinics by Dr. Micah Everett; the Percussion Camp under the guidance of Dr. Tyree Hastings, and the Jazz Camp Roberts will lead with special guest artist Summer Camargo.
Community-building is also an important aspect of the music camps. Students not only sharpen their musical acumen but also build a network that remains during all-region auditions and beyond. Future plans for UT Tyler Music Camps include possible choir, band, and string camps. Dr. Roberts also pays homage to the legendary David Sanborn, who died earlier this week. She reflects on the impact of such musicians on aspiring artists.
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LANDESS (00:04):
The first week of summer means a variety of music
camps on the UT Tyler campus.
I'm Mike Landis.
Two of them begin on June 17thand UT Tyler Radio connects with
the interim director of theSchool of Performing Arts, Dr
Sarah Roberts, to find out moreabout them.
Let's start with Brass Camp andthe special guest.
ROBERTS (00:21):
Sure.
So this year's special guest isDr Micah Everett, and he is the
professor of low brass at theUniversity of Mississippi, and
so he'll be on campus doing someclinics and then he'll give a
guest artist concert with therest of our brass faculty on, I
believe, june 20.
Oh sorry, june 19th 19th June19th.
LANDESS (00:45):
yeah, the camp runs through the 21st right.
ROBERTS (00:47):
It does, yeah, so that's right in the middle of
camp.
LANDESS (00:50):
So now, this is a big deal.
Our brass guys first of all.
Our brass guys are fantastic.
Yes, they are, and the otherpart of that is that they do
such an amazing job with thesekids.
How many kids come to brasscamp?
ROBERTS (01:01):
I think last year we had about 20.
LANDESS (01:03):
Yeah.
ROBERTS (01:04):
And they all split up.
They did some large brassensembles, some small brass
ensembles.
So this is a unique campbecause it's different than a
band camp.
Right, it's focusing just onbrass playing and all types of
brass playing and you knowthere's a storied history of
brass playing in the developmentof all of those instruments
trumpets and trombones andFrench horns and so it's really
(01:26):
great for these students to diginto repertoire that they might
not be learning in school andalso putting those brass
instruments together itstrengthens their band programs
when the students go back toschool.
LANDESS (01:37):
Well, let's give some props to the guy who runs the
brass department.
ROBERTS (01:41):
Sure, dr Jeremy McBain, so this is his third year
running Brass Camp department.
Sure, dr Jeremy McBain, so thisis his third year running Brass
Camp.
This is his 10th year,finishing his 10th year at UT
Tyler, and he's just done anawesome job starting Brass Camp,
making it a thing in East Texaswhich is great, it didn't exist
before and just growing ourbrass area in general.
He has so many fantastictrumpet students and they're
(02:02):
going to different competitionsacross the country and getting
into prestigious master'sprograms, so he's really doing a
fantastic job.
LANDESS (02:10):
One of the things I love about our faculty here, our
music faculty in particular, isthat they're performers.
Sure, he's a performer.
ROBERTS (02:20):
He is.
He gigs all the time.
I think he is principal trumpetwith the Texarkana Symphony.
He also plays with East TexasSymphony, plays with the Lubbock
Symphony, shreveport Symphony,I mean he's all over the place.
So very busy, high demand andjust fantastic player and person
.
LANDESS (02:38):
And he runs Trumpets R Us.
ROBERTS (02:40):
Yes, definitely.
Yeah, I think he has a prettylarge collection as well, so
maybe that's a topic for anotherday.
LANDESS (02:47):
Trump SRS is a joke.
By the way, for those of youthat aren't following along Now,
the percussion camp begins onthe 17th as well.
ROBERTS (02:53):
It does.
Yes, this is our second yearfor percussion camp and it's run
by Dr Tyree Hastings.
LANDESS (03:09):
I teased Dr Tyree Hastings.
I said when you were a kid.
ROBERTS (03:10):
Were you the kid that pulled all the pots and pans out
of your mom's pantry and thenstarted banging on them?
He said well, yes, I was Morethan likely.
You can't walk by his officewithout hearing him just
practicing all kinds of things,and I always love the request of
can we buy this instrument?
And it's something you neverexpect.
LANDESS (03:23):
Tell me a little bit about that camp and how it came
to be, and what do you expectthis time around?
ROBERTS (03:29):
Yeah, dr Hastings started this camp and I'm really
excited for it to be in itssecond year of growing.
I think he had 10 campers lastyear, which is a great number to
start with, and the studentsget experience on literally all
percussion instruments.
And he's kind of restructuringit differently this summer where
the morning will be all drumline, so the students will you
(03:51):
know think, marching percussion,snares and toms, and you know
the bass drums and reallyworking on those fundamentals,
and then the afternoon will bewhat we call the inside
percussion.
So it's all the concertpercussion equipment, from
timpani to all the uniquedifferent types of drums,
cymbals, the mallet instrumentsas well.
(04:12):
So students are going to get areally well-rounded experience
every day.
LANDESS (04:16):
Now you head up the jazz camp.
ROBERTS (04:19):
I do.
LANDESS (04:19):
And that starts on the 24th with also a guest artist.
ROBERTS (04:22):
Yes, it does.
I'm so excited this year.
Our guest artist is very young,I think she's 23.
She's finishing her master's atJuilliard, taking her finals
right now as we speak, and hername is Summer Camargo.
She is an up-and-coming trumpetplayer and composer.
She is the newest member of theSaturday Night Live band as
(04:43):
well.
LANDESS (04:43):
Wow.
ROBERTS (04:46):
And she just released her first album, called To Whom
I Love, and that dropped, Ithink, at the beginning of April
.
So she is a busy lady and I'mso excited to have this young,
amazing musician.
LANDESS (04:57):
Now in my mind's eye, I'm trying to think of female
trumpet players I've ever known,and they're not coming to mind.
ROBERTS (05:03):
Well, there have been some, you know, but like many
female jazz musicians, they getleft out of our history books.
But you know, summer is reallykind of spearheading.
There's this group of reallyyoung, amazing female jazz
musicians in New York and she isone of them and it's really
great to see her, you know, justkind of leading the pack and
(05:26):
playing with everybody.
She plays a lot with LincolnCenter and with Marcellus and
she's gigging all the time.
I think.
I checked her Instagram lastweek and she was in Europe
touring with a group.
LANDESS (05:37):
Oh, wow.
ROBERTS (05:38):
She's everywhere and just amazing.
She's going to be fantastic towork with.
I'm so excited that thestudents get to learn from her
and then her concert is justgoing to be incredible.
LANDESS (05:47):
Look forward to that.
Now let's talk about the camps.
Where do these participantscome from, and what ages?
ROBERTS (05:53):
Sure.
So our age requirement is 13and up and we make sure that
students have at least one yearof playing their instrument
under their belt before theyshow up to camp and then from
there, jazz Camp.
Our oldest camper I think he is67, this year 68.
So you know, some of them spana wide range.
(06:15):
Most of the camps are middleschool and high school geared
towards that age range.
Sometimes we'll have collegestudents that want to join as
well and they come from all over.
You know, last year for JazzCamp we had students from South
Texas that drove seven hours,dropped their students off and
then turned around and droveanother seven hours back.
So it's really incredible.
You know, our camps are justkind of starting to really reach
(06:38):
the you know all parts of Texasand become known as a really
unique opportunity for students.
LANDESS (06:46):
Well, you point out something that I hadn't thought
about until just this moment,and that is that some of these
campers who are coming from faraway have to have some place to
stay.
So all of that's been puttogether.
All of that is put together.
ROBERTS (06:56):
Yeah, we have a day camper option for the local
students.
They can come and go each day,or we have the overnight option
as well, and so at night, youknow, we don't make them play
all day.
So, at night they have thetraditional camp experience.
You know we'll have a poolparty or game night.
LANDESS (07:14):
S'mores yes, exactly.
ROBERTS (07:17):
And then you know some of the campers.
They just want to jam, and soyou know we'll have jam sessions
or they can come back andpractice as well.
So we try and keep thementertained in a variety of ways
.
LANDESS (07:28):
I remember last year that was so amazing that there
was some sort of a hang up.
We were out at True Vine, ohyeah, and it took a little while
to get things going and thekids all by themselves decided
you know what we're going tostart.
And they did.
ROBERTS (07:40):
That's our community jazz jam night.
Yeah, we had trouble gettingthe campers from campus over
there, the ones that were ourovernight Transportation
Transportation exactly, but thecampers that showed up, they
started and they went and Iloved our Community Jazz Jam
Night.
We just let the students takewhat they have learned, you know
, the first couple days of camp,and we just let them go, and
(08:02):
then it's always fun because ourguest artists will show up as
well and I'm hoping Summer willsit in with the students.
LANDESS (08:07):
They love that and so close in age to that, I mean
that's certainly relatable.
Now, how have the camps evolvedover the years and what are
your hopes and dreams for theirfuture?
ROBERTS (08:21):
Oh well, you know they've evolved in number, in
what we are able to do with thestudents.
You know, every year, thefaculty member running that camp
, whether it be Dr Hastings orDr McBain or myself we're trying
to come up with new ways tokeep it exciting and new things
that we want the students tolearn, and so I love seeing that
evolution.
(08:41):
Obviously, you know they'regrowing.
So you know, when Jazz Campstarted seven years ago, we
started with 10 students andlast year we had almost 50.
And this year my enrollment iscrazy, so who knows how many
students will be there?
So I love seeing that evolutionas well, and I think you know
what that means for us as adepartment is these students get
(09:02):
familiar with campus, they getfamiliar with our professors,
they have a relationship withthem and it's turned into
students coming here to study,you know, and continue their
musical studies or continuetheir studies in another
discipline and still play in ourensembles.
Because they've built thatrelationship.
And I think you know futuregrowth is just more camp
(09:23):
offerings.
There's so many more thingsthat we could be doing.
Whether it be, I don't want toproject, but I think oh go ahead
.
We know, maybe a choir camp inthe future or maybe a
full-fledged band camp, or whoknows what that might look like.
This year we had the veryinfant stages of our string
(09:45):
program, so maybe there's astring camp in our future.
I think that the potential isendless and I think we've gotten
such a great response from ourlocal area that you know we feel
really lucky to have thesupport from our local
instructors to help push ourcamps and so who knows, sky's
the limit?
LANDESS (10:04):
Okay, so I'm voting for a guitar camp, okay, okay.
ROBERTS (10:07):
There you go.
I'll talk to Sergio and make ithappen.
LANDESS (10:10):
Make it happen.
On a note unrelated to the UTTyler Music Camps, the
world-lost saxophone legend,david Sanborn recently, and for
those who don't know a lot abouthim or his music, give us some
background on his contributions.
ROBERTS (10:24):
Oh, david Sanborn is probably the most famous.
Maybe you've heard of him ormaybe you haven't, but you've
definitely heard him playsaxophonist of all time.
I think his sound isquintessential, with, like 80s,
it's kind of smooth jazz, butalso crossing over into that
rock genre as well.
I mean, he has a verydistinctive sound and a very
(10:46):
distinctive style and way ofplaying.
And I remember being a student,you know, learning saxophone,
and my dad, who was a rocker,had all these David Sanborn
records and was like, oh, youneed to sound like this person,
you need to.
You know, and that was my firstintroduction to David Sanborn
and his career.
It's just, it's been just longand full of collaborations with
(11:12):
so many musicians.
I mean I don't think there's anarea of music that he hasn't
touched.
LANDESS (11:18):
Yeah, one of the legacy aspects of this is that in the
writings about him and what he'dgone through in these past
years of being treated forprostate cancer was that he was
still gigging all the time andhad dates that were already set
through 2025.
ROBERTS (11:34):
I think that's the power of music right that you're
a part of, but it has so manyhealing powers, not just for the
listener, but you know, I'msure it served as I don't want
to speak for him, but I wouldimagine it served as some type
of therapy and gave him thisthing to look forward to, you
know, and he could continue tocontribute.
(11:56):
And so I mean, what aninspiration to be dealing with
that and still, you knowpursuing and and you know
granting us with his art.
LANDESS (12:05):
Yep, and again, what a legacy.
I actually posted it on mypersonal social media and
pointed out that, hey, go toYouTube, if nothing else, and
listen to this guy and thenmaybe pick up some of his work.
ROBERTS (12:18):
Yeah, definitely.
LANDESS (12:19):
Absolutely.
Now here's a semi-personalquestion for you, Dr Sarah.
You've been the interimdirector of the School of
Performing Arts for a while.
Will we see some new businesscards for you in the near future
?
ROBERTS (12:32):
It's possible.
It's possible, you know.
I think there's some things inthe works, but I can't give any
secrets away yet.
LANDESS (12:40):
And I knew you couldn't .
ROBERTS (12:41):
I just thought I'd put you on the spot anyway.
Love it.
LANDESS (12:43):
How about some final thoughts on UT Tyler's music
camps and why they're important?
ROBERTS (12:48):
Well, you know, we all know that during the summer our
students might take a break, andso you know they're important
for so many reasons.
They get the students engaged,they get their instruments out
of the case for a week, at leasta week in the summer.
But not only that.
Our students have fun.
You know they have a great time.
They're learning and they're,you know, just making their own
(13:12):
community with their fellowstudents.
You know, probably fromdifferent schools, probably from
different areas, and so thenthe next time they go to an
audition that's an all-regionaudition they're going to know
some students that they met atcamp.
It's really neat to see thoserelationships form and grow.
And not only that, it's fun forour professors, and you know
(13:33):
the building gets pretty quietonce the semester ends.
So it's really great to havethat music and that sound and
the joy through our halls.
So it's just a wonderful timeand I would invite anybody to
come up during our camp weeksand check it out and come to our
concerts.
They're all free and open tothe public.
LANDESS (13:51):
Thanks for listening as UT Tyler Radio connects with Dr
Sarah Roberts For UT TylerRadio News.
I'm Mike Landis.
The first week of summer means a variety of music
camps on the UT Tyler campus.
I'm Mike Landis.
Two of them begin on June 17thand UT Tyler Radio connects with
the interim director of theSchool of Performing Arts, Dr
Sarah Roberts, to find out moreabout them.
Let's start with Brass Camp andthe special guest.
ROBERTS (00:21):
Sure.
So this year's special guest isDr Micah Everett, and he is the
professor of low brass at theUniversity of Mississippi, and
so he'll be on campus doing someclinics and then he'll give a
guest artist concert with therest of our brass faculty on, I
believe, june 20.
Oh sorry, june 19th 19th June19th.
LANDESS (00:45):
yeah, the camp runs through the 21st right.
ROBERTS (00:47):
It does, yeah, so that's right in the middle of
camp.
LANDESS (00:50):
So now, this is a big deal.
Our brass guys first of all.
Our brass guys are fantastic.
Yes, they are, and the otherpart of that is that they do
such an amazing job with thesekids.
How many kids come to brasscamp?
ROBERTS (01:01):
I think last year we had about 20.
LANDESS (01:03):
Yeah.
ROBERTS (01:04):
And they all split up.
They did some large brassensembles, some small brass
ensembles.
So this is a unique campbecause it's different than a
band camp.
Right, it's focusing just onbrass playing and all types of
brass playing and you knowthere's a storied history of
brass playing in the developmentof all of those instruments
trumpets and trombones andFrench horns and so it's really
(01:26):
great for these students to diginto repertoire that they might
not be learning in school andalso putting those brass
instruments together itstrengthens their band programs
when the students go back toschool.
LANDESS (01:37):
Well, let's give some props to the guy who runs the
brass department.
ROBERTS (01:41):
Sure, dr Jeremy McBain, so this is his third year
running Brass Camp department.
Sure, dr Jeremy McBain, so thisis his third year running Brass
Camp.
This is his 10th year,finishing his 10th year at UT
Tyler, and he's just done anawesome job starting Brass Camp,
making it a thing in East Texaswhich is great, it didn't exist
before and just growing ourbrass area in general.
He has so many fantastictrumpet students and they're
(02:02):
going to different competitionsacross the country and getting
into prestigious master'sprograms, so he's really doing a
fantastic job.
LANDESS (02:10):
One of the things I love about our faculty here, our
music faculty in particular, isthat they're performers.
Sure, he's a performer.
ROBERTS (02:20):
He is.
He gigs all the time.
I think he is principal trumpetwith the Texarkana Symphony.
He also plays with East TexasSymphony, plays with the Lubbock
Symphony, shreveport Symphony,I mean he's all over the place.
So very busy, high demand andjust fantastic player and person
.
LANDESS (02:38):
And he runs Trumpets R Us.
ROBERTS (02:40):
Yes, definitely.
Yeah, I think he has a prettylarge collection as well, so
maybe that's a topic for anotherday.
LANDESS (02:47):
Trump SRS is a joke.
By the way, for those of youthat aren't following along Now,
the percussion camp begins onthe 17th as well.
ROBERTS (02:53):
It does.
Yes, this is our second yearfor percussion camp and it's run
by Dr Tyree Hastings.
LANDESS (03:09):
I teased Dr Tyree Hastings.
I said when you were a kid.
ROBERTS (03:10):
Were you the kid that pulled all the pots and pans out
of your mom's pantry and thenstarted banging on them?
He said well, yes, I was Morethan likely.
You can't walk by his officewithout hearing him just
practicing all kinds of things,and I always love the request of
can we buy this instrument?
And it's something you neverexpect.
LANDESS (03:23):
Tell me a little bit about that camp and how it came
to be, and what do you expectthis time around?
ROBERTS (03:29):
Yeah, dr Hastings started this camp and I'm really
excited for it to be in itssecond year of growing.
I think he had 10 campers lastyear, which is a great number to
start with, and the studentsget experience on literally all
percussion instruments.
And he's kind of restructuringit differently this summer where
the morning will be all drumline, so the students will you
(03:51):
know think, marching percussion,snares and toms, and you know
the bass drums and reallyworking on those fundamentals,
and then the afternoon will bewhat we call the inside
percussion.
So it's all the concertpercussion equipment, from
timpani to all the uniquedifferent types of drums,
cymbals, the mallet instrumentsas well.
(04:12):
So students are going to get areally well-rounded experience
every day.
LANDESS (04:16):
Now you head up the jazz camp.
ROBERTS (04:19):
I do.
LANDESS (04:19):
And that starts on the 24th with also a guest artist.
ROBERTS (04:22):
Yes, it does.
I'm so excited this year.
Our guest artist is very young,I think she's 23.
She's finishing her master's atJuilliard, taking her finals
right now as we speak, and hername is Summer Camargo.
She is an up-and-coming trumpetplayer and composer.
She is the newest member of theSaturday Night Live band as
(04:43):
well.
LANDESS (04:43):
Wow.
ROBERTS (04:46):
And she just released her first album, called To Whom
I Love, and that dropped, Ithink, at the beginning of April
.
So she is a busy lady and I'mso excited to have this young,
amazing musician.
LANDESS (04:57):
Now in my mind's eye, I'm trying to think of female
trumpet players I've ever known,and they're not coming to mind.
ROBERTS (05:03):
Well, there have been some, you know, but like many
female jazz musicians, they getleft out of our history books.
But you know, summer is reallykind of spearheading.
There's this group of reallyyoung, amazing female jazz
musicians in New York and she isone of them and it's really
great to see her, you know, justkind of leading the pack and
(05:26):
playing with everybody.
She plays a lot with LincolnCenter and with Marcellus and
she's gigging all the time.
I think.
I checked her Instagram lastweek and she was in Europe
touring with a group.
LANDESS (05:37):
Oh, wow.
ROBERTS (05:38):
She's everywhere and just amazing.
She's going to be fantastic towork with.
I'm so excited that thestudents get to learn from her
and then her concert is justgoing to be incredible.
LANDESS (05:47):
Look forward to that.
Now let's talk about the camps.
Where do these participantscome from, and what ages?
ROBERTS (05:53):
Sure.
So our age requirement is 13and up and we make sure that
students have at least one yearof playing their instrument
under their belt before theyshow up to camp and then from
there, jazz Camp.
Our oldest camper I think he is67, this year 68.
So you know, some of them spana wide range.
(06:15):
Most of the camps are middleschool and high school geared
towards that age range.
Sometimes we'll have collegestudents that want to join as
well and they come from all over.
You know, last year for JazzCamp we had students from South
Texas that drove seven hours,dropped their students off and
then turned around and droveanother seven hours back.
So it's really incredible.
You know, our camps are justkind of starting to really reach
(06:38):
the you know all parts of Texasand become known as a really
unique opportunity for students.
LANDESS (06:46):
Well, you point out something that I hadn't thought
about until just this moment,and that is that some of these
campers who are coming from faraway have to have some place to
stay.
So all of that's been puttogether.
All of that is put together.
ROBERTS (06:56):
Yeah, we have a day camper option for the local
students.
They can come and go each day,or we have the overnight option
as well, and so at night, youknow, we don't make them play
all day.
So, at night they have thetraditional camp experience.
You know we'll have a poolparty or game night.
LANDESS (07:14):
S'mores yes, exactly.
ROBERTS (07:17):
And then you know some of the campers.
They just want to jam, and soyou know we'll have jam sessions
or they can come back andpractice as well.
So we try and keep thementertained in a variety of ways
.
LANDESS (07:28):
I remember last year that was so amazing that there
was some sort of a hang up.
We were out at True Vine, ohyeah, and it took a little while
to get things going and thekids all by themselves decided
you know what we're going tostart.
And they did.
ROBERTS (07:40):
That's our community jazz jam night.
Yeah, we had trouble gettingthe campers from campus over
there, the ones that were ourovernight Transportation
Transportation exactly, but thecampers that showed up, they
started and they went and Iloved our Community Jazz Jam
Night.
We just let the students takewhat they have learned, you know
, the first couple days of camp,and we just let them go, and
(08:02):
then it's always fun because ourguest artists will show up as
well and I'm hoping Summer willsit in with the students.
LANDESS (08:07):
They love that and so close in age to that, I mean
that's certainly relatable.
Now, how have the camps evolvedover the years and what are
your hopes and dreams for theirfuture?
ROBERTS (08:21):
Oh well, you know they've evolved in number, in
what we are able to do with thestudents.
You know, every year, thefaculty member running that camp
, whether it be Dr Hastings orDr McBain or myself we're trying
to come up with new ways tokeep it exciting and new things
that we want the students tolearn, and so I love seeing that
evolution.
(08:41):
Obviously, you know they'regrowing.
So you know, when Jazz Campstarted seven years ago, we
started with 10 students andlast year we had almost 50.
And this year my enrollment iscrazy, so who knows how many
students will be there?
So I love seeing that evolutionas well, and I think you know
what that means for us as adepartment is these students get
(09:02):
familiar with campus, they getfamiliar with our professors,
they have a relationship withthem and it's turned into
students coming here to study,you know, and continue their
musical studies or continuetheir studies in another
discipline and still play in ourensembles.
Because they've built thatrelationship.
And I think you know futuregrowth is just more camp
(09:23):
offerings.
There's so many more thingsthat we could be doing.
Whether it be, I don't want toproject, but I think oh go ahead
.
We know, maybe a choir camp inthe future or maybe a
full-fledged band camp, or whoknows what that might look like.
This year we had the veryinfant stages of our string
(09:45):
program, so maybe there's astring camp in our future.
I think that the potential isendless and I think we've gotten
such a great response from ourlocal area that you know we feel
really lucky to have thesupport from our local
instructors to help push ourcamps and so who knows, sky's
the limit?
LANDESS (10:04):
Okay, so I'm voting for a guitar camp, okay, okay.
ROBERTS (10:07):
There you go.
I'll talk to Sergio and make ithappen.
LANDESS (10:10):
Make it happen.
On a note unrelated to the UTTyler Music Camps, the
world-lost saxophone legend,david Sanborn recently, and for
those who don't know a lot abouthim or his music, give us some
background on his contributions.
ROBERTS (10:24):
Oh, david Sanborn is probably the most famous.
Maybe you've heard of him ormaybe you haven't, but you've
definitely heard him playsaxophonist of all time.
I think his sound isquintessential, with, like 80s,
it's kind of smooth jazz, butalso crossing over into that
rock genre as well.
I mean, he has a verydistinctive sound and a very
(10:46):
distinctive style and way ofplaying.
And I remember being a student,you know, learning saxophone,
and my dad, who was a rocker,had all these David Sanborn
records and was like, oh, youneed to sound like this person,
you need to.
You know, and that was my firstintroduction to David Sanborn
and his career.
It's just, it's been just longand full of collaborations with
(11:12):
so many musicians.
I mean I don't think there's anarea of music that he hasn't
touched.
LANDESS (11:18):
Yeah, one of the legacy aspects of this is that in the
writings about him and what he'dgone through in these past
years of being treated forprostate cancer was that he was
still gigging all the time andhad dates that were already set
through 2025.
ROBERTS (11:34):
I think that's the power of music right that you're
a part of, but it has so manyhealing powers, not just for the
listener, but you know, I'msure it served as I don't want
to speak for him, but I wouldimagine it served as some type
of therapy and gave him thisthing to look forward to, you
know, and he could continue tocontribute.
(11:56):
And so I mean, what aninspiration to be dealing with
that and still, you knowpursuing and and you know
granting us with his art.
LANDESS (12:05):
Yep, and again, what a legacy.
I actually posted it on mypersonal social media and
pointed out that, hey, go toYouTube, if nothing else, and
listen to this guy and thenmaybe pick up some of his work.
ROBERTS (12:18):
Yeah, definitely.
LANDESS (12:19):
Absolutely.
Now here's a semi-personalquestion for you, Dr Sarah.
You've been the interimdirector of the School of
Performing Arts for a while.
Will we see some new businesscards for you in the near future
?
ROBERTS (12:32):
It's possible.
It's possible, you know.
I think there's some things inthe works, but I can't give any
secrets away yet.
LANDESS (12:40):
And I knew you couldn't .
ROBERTS (12:41):
I just thought I'd put you on the spot anyway.
Love it.
LANDESS (12:43):
How about some final thoughts on UT Tyler's music
camps and why they're important?
ROBERTS (12:48):
Well, you know, we all know that during the summer our
students might take a break, andso you know they're important
for so many reasons.
They get the students engaged,they get their instruments out
of the case for a week, at leasta week in the summer.
But not only that.
Our students have fun.
You know they have a great time.
They're learning and they're,you know, just making their own
(13:12):
community with their fellowstudents.
You know, probably fromdifferent schools, probably from
different areas, and so thenthe next time they go to an
audition that's an all-regionaudition they're going to know
some students that they met atcamp.
It's really neat to see thoserelationships form and grow.
And not only that, it's fun forour professors, and you know
(13:33):
the building gets pretty quietonce the semester ends.
So it's really great to havethat music and that sound and
the joy through our halls.
So it's just a wonderful timeand I would invite anybody to
come up during our camp weeksand check it out and come to our
concerts.
They're all free and open tothe public.
LANDESS (13:51):
Thanks for listening as UT Tyler Radio connects with Dr
Sarah Roberts For UT TylerRadio News.
I'm Mike Landis.
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