Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 389 - Allen Otte (Part 2‪)‬ Pete's Percussion Podcast - Pete Zambito

Allen Otte returns to talk about getting to Cincinnati Conservatory of Music, taking over the percussion program, establishing the Percussion Group Cincinnati at the school, and building a program (01:40), the changing personnel of PGC, commissioning composers, performing with students, being the “institutional memory”, and his decision to retire (17:15), and finishes with the Random Ass Questions, including segments on percussion literature choices, “Otte-speak”, diversity issues, The Met Opera Online, English novels, sports in the 1960s, and Renaissance Choral Music (38:10).
Finishing with a Rave on Nick Tosches’ 2005 book on Arnold Rothstein (01:12:05).
Allen Otte Links:
Part 1 with Allen Otte
The Innocents
Percussion Group Cincinnati
Other Links:
Ben Toth
Jack Brennan
Bill Youhass
Herbert Brün
“Third Construction” - John Cage
Mark Saya
Lou Harrison
Tár trailer
Eugene Onegin - Piotr Tchaikovsky
Middlemarch - George Eliot
Jane Austen
Thomas Hardy
Charles Dickens
The 1960s Green Bay Packers
Warren Spahn
Henry Aaron
Lift-Off - Russell Peck
“Ave Maria” - Josquin des Prez
“Sick cervus” - Giovanni da Palestrina
“Ave Maria” - Tomás Luis de Victoria
Raves:
King of the Jews - Nick Tosches