Geary H. Larrick (DMA ’84)
Larrick—retired music faculty at University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point—has enjoyed a writing career including publication citations in Books in Print, Music Index, RILM Abstracts, WorldCat and Google Scholar. He credits the College of Music “in writing many compositions, articles and 10 scholarly books published in New York and distributed in research libraries worldwide including Cambridge, Oxford and Melbourne.” Larrick’s articles have appeared in Percussive Notes (Percussive Arts Society) and the National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors (NACWPI) Journal; his reviews for the National Association for Music Education are available online in many research library catalogs worldwide. Additionally, Larrick has 100 compositions to his name—many of which are in the CU Boulder American Music Research Center—especially featuring percussion. Larrick and his wife, Lydia, moved from Wisconsin to Chicago to be near their daughter, son-in-law and two grandsons. He plays solo marimba daily.
Posted Mar. 27, 2023