TBJ205: Remembering Floyd Cooley - Brass Legacy Project
Andrew Hitz
The music world lost a giant last month when Floyd Cooley, former Principal Tuba of the San Francisco Symphony, passed away.
For the latest installment of the Brass Legacy Project I invited six former students of Floyd's to share stories of him as a player, teacher and person:
Kevin Harrison - Axiom Brass
Daryl Johnson - Louisville Symphony Orchestra (retired)
Pete Link - Kyoto Symphony Orchestra
Mike Roylance - Boston Symphony Orchestra
William Russell - Boston Brass
Jerome Stover - Sam Houston State University
I never had the privilege of meeting Floyd which I regret. But after being a fly on the wall for this conversation, I feel like I got to know him a little bit and that is a gift.
Thanks to all six of them for joining me on The Brass Junkies on short notice.
You can find this and every TBJ episode on YouTube, wherever you listen to podcasts or via Pedal Note Media.
Now I'm going to go listen to Floyd's Nielsen 5 recording with San Francisco and Blomstedt for about the 600th time in my life...