Everything Band Podcast

Joe Parisi is a professor of music education at UMKC and the director of the Fountain City Brass Band. He joins me to talk about music education, brass band, and how music gives us a sense of belonging. Topics: Joe’s background and current position as a music professor at the University of Missouri Kansas City. Teaching students to love music through band and the importance of creating lifelong learning through music. The exceptional faculty, including Elliot Del Borgo and Tony Maiello at SUNY Potsdam during Joe’s undergraduate study there and the lessons that he learned from those great musicians. Increasing the number of great moments so that students want to come back and work harder. The program at UMKC including commissioning and premiering over 50 new works and stories of commissioning composers. The Fountain City Brass and brass banding and using competition as a way to build community. Links: Joe Parisi University of Missouri - Kansas City Fountain City Brass Ben Zander "The Art of Possibility" Ca