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Goddard College closed at the end of the spring semester in 2024, due to a precipitious decline in enrollment from 1,900 in the 1970s to less than 250 in 2024. [ 16 ] The main campus in Plainfield, VT, was put up for sale and in late May was announced to be under contract at a price of $3.4 million to an undisclosed buyer. [ 17 ]
Phish continued playing college campuses and parties during this year, and spent the majority of their down-time practicing, and honing their craft. In the spring of 1987, Trey Anastasio submitted Phish's studio experiment, The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday, as his senior thesis at Goddard College. Many of these songs would make more frequent ...
Anastasio and Fishman relocated in mid-1986 to Goddard College after a recommendation from McConnell. [31] Phish distributed at least six experimental self-titled cassettes during this era, including The White Tape. [32] While based at Goddard College, Phish began to collaborate with fellow students Richard "Nancy" Wright and Jim Pollock. [33]
Goddard College attracts a liberal, educated population that at one time made up a significant portion of the townspeople. Goddard alumni include Mumia Abu-Jamal, members of the band Phish, David Mamet, Piers Anthony, Mary Edwards, onetime State historian H. Allen Soule Jr., and abstract artists including Robert M. Fisher and James Gahagan.
The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday (often abbreviated as TMWSIY) is a 1988 concept album written by Trey Anastasio, the guitarist and lead vocalist of the American rock band Phish, as his senior thesis while attending Goddard College.
Gamehendge is a fictional setting for a number of songs by the rock band Phish. The main set of songs can be traced back to The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday (or TMWSIY), the senior project of guitarist and primary vocalist Trey Anastasio, written while he attended Goddard College. The musical was recorded to a cassette tape and submitted ...
After seeing a Phish show, pianist Page McConnell joined Phish in the autumn of 1985. Anastasio, along with Jon Fishman, transferred to Goddard College. [1] During this time he began a musical association and close friendship with composer Ernie Stires, who taught him composition, theory, and arranging. [14]
Lar Duggan is an American jazz pianist, best known as an early, influential music teacher of Phish keyboardist Page McConnell. In his 1987 Goddard College thesis, [1] McConnell wrote that Duggan was “the single most important person” in helping improve his improvisational playing.