Joining us this week is Tracy Wiggins, coordinator of the percussion program at The University of North Alabama. His interests and experiences are varied, ranging from principle timpanist for several orchestras, to a tuba-percussion duo called Peruba, to playing in the pit for numerous operas and musicals.Topics: Mariah Carey's year-ending performance, hearing protection and decibel results from PASIC 2016, music programming debates, and John Cage's Third ConstructionWatch here. Listen below. If you cannot see the audio controls, your browser does not support the audio element 0:00 Hello and Happy New Year 10:33 Hearing protection and PASIC 2016 decibel tests results33:31 Quote from Andrew Normam on NewMusicBox.org on why we should program new music54:15 John Cage 3rd Construction - form and "Square Root" formula
