Tenuto Podcast

I sit down with my former trombone professor from Penn State, Mark Lusk, to discuss some of his teaching philosophies. We introduce a special segment titled, "Questions from my classmates" where each of my 2016 classmates who were with me in State College this weekend asked Mark a question. You'll also hear from special guest and former Tenuto interviewee, Evan Harger.

Dixon Smith Middle School Teacher of the Year, Nathan Gredler joins the podcast to discuss all things middle school band. Grab a pencil and some paper, because Nathan drops some knowledge in this episode!

Randall Standridge joins the Tenuto Podcast to talk about things to consider when programming a concert, the composition process, and so much more. This interview took place over the summer of 2021, but Kevin strategically decided to release it at the end of his winter break to re-listen to the gold that Randall drops in this interview. It is a MUST LISTEN for all music educators looking to program a concert in 2022.

2020 Illinois State Teacher of the Year, Eric Combs, joins the podcast to discuss his teaching curriculum using a playoff system, and how he is teaching rhythm completely differently than he was 10 years ago. Below are the links referenced in his interview. Eric's Website with all free materials: https://sites.google.com/rccu1.net/eric-combs/home Eric's Rhythm Videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_bPf_XZgj0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nK06IMHyB7c&t=1s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZErtZzrrHmQ&t=926s

Ep. 43 Teaching Clarinet with Taylor Cardwell by Kevin Lynch

I sit down with Drew Middle School Director, Steve Patterson, to discuss what he does with his bands to work on tone. This is the first episode in our summer series "Coming Back Stronger."

Jake Walker, beginning band teacher in Huntley, Illinois, shares his tricks of the trade from his experience in virtual teaching on the Tenuto Podcast.

Co-host of "Pardon My Take," PFTCommenter comes on the Tenuto Podcast to discuss his musical background and give his insight into music education. Special guest appearance by retired NFL running back, Danny Woodhead

NY rap artist, Dylan Owen, comes on the podcast to discuss a music educator who inspired him to fame as a young rap artist.

Ep. 38 Evan Harger by Kevin Lynch

Mark joins the podcast as a high school band director to discuss the transition between elementary general to HS Band!

MusicFirst's Robin Hudson comes on the show to talk about his experiences working with music technology. This England native has many years of experience and offers a lot of insight into what English schools are doing that we could be doing more of. He also has some outlandish ideas that music educators should compose! Listen to find out more!

The start of a new season! It's our first show of 2018 and we're kicking it off with NAFME's Band Director of the year for 2017, Emily McNeil! The show also includes new segment "What's going on in my classroom" and the ever popular "Rapid Fire" with Emily McNeil!

Grad school student Katie Procell comes on the podcast to discuss being a graduate student studying vocal performance.

Kelly comes on the show to discuss the Mark Woods experience, her recruiting techniques, and the things she is doing now that she wishes she was doing earlier in her career.

I sit down and discuss where the podcast has been and the direction we are heading

I sit down with my interlochen co-worker, Will McLaughlin and chat him up on what it's like teaching middle school band in TX. I also check in with Brandon on our "Going to Grad School" Segment to hear about his Highlight of the Week.

We welcome Brandon Buterbaugh to the Tenuto family with our new Segment, "Going to grad school." We will be checking in on Brandon weekly for his "Highlight of the week" as well as other things that are going on in his grad school life. This will be a new segment every week and then another interview will follow like in previous episodes. Check it out!

What advice would you give your first year teacher self? That's a question that I ask everyone on the podcast, and we have the answers from all the Big Ten Directors. We wrap up the Big Ten Tour with some segments of the directors giving younger teachers advice. The tour is officially over and Tenuto is going back to interviewing teachers other than BIG Ten marching band directors. Here is a link for the NAFME article mentioned in the podcast http://ow.ly/Ss8330eGrsI

This week on the podcast I sit down with Barry Houser who describes to me all about his path to becoming the director of the Marching Illini