He's back again because we like him so much. Topics: festivals (including ZMF - Zeltsman Marimba Festival), commissioning and consortiums, the National Endowment for the Arts website, and ? Watch here. Listen below. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element 0:00 Zeltsman Marimba Festival TV interview 3:02 Intro and hello 3:42 Behind the scenes at ZMF 8:36 Laurel: National Endowment for the Arts 15:20 Steve Snowden’s “Long Distance” consortium commission 17:58 Creative ways to commission / Mark Applebaum’s “Composition Machine No. 1” 23:43 Find a change to be distinctive and stand out 26:12 Composers Circle and New Music USA 27:26 Opinions on crowd funding 30:10 Megan: Summer Percussion Festivals 37:59 Carlos Johnson: Is there anything you’d love to see more young percussionists or composers do in regards to sound exploration, performing, commissions, etc. Do you feel anything lacking in recent percussion performances or repertoire? Is there anything you’d love to see or hear more or less of? 48:06 Zach Albright: I’d love to hear you talk about the balance between technical ability vs. musicality. Often times they are placed at odds with each other, but I don’t necessarily think that needs to be the case. 53:32 “Sharpening the Saw” and decompressing 1:01:04 Nief-Norf Summer Festival 1:06:14 Wrap