Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 388 - Allen Otte (Part 1‪)‬ Pete's Percussion Podcast - Pete Zambito

Retired Cincinnati Conservatory of Music Professor, co-founder of BlackEarth Percussion Group and the Percussion Group Cincinnati, and performing percussionist Allen Otte stops by to talk about his current work with an early music improvisational group and The Innocents Project with John Lane (03:50), growing up in Sheboygan, WI, playing in church and with polka bands, his beginnings in piano and percussion, and studying with Michael Rosen (32:20), attending Oberlin (OH) for undergrad and getting into improvisation and new chamber music (43:50), and his work with BlackEarth, “inhaling music” vs. building repertoire and programs, and eventually making his way to CCM (56:40).
Finishing with a Rave on Ireland, its people, and its parades (01:17:30).
Allen Otte Links:
Percussion Group Cincinnati’s PAS Hall of Fame page
The Innocents
Previous Podcast Guest Mentioned:
John Lane in 2023
Other Links:
Anthony Braxton
“The Fall of the Empire” - Frederick Rzewski
Herbert Brün
Garry Kvistad
“Guantanamera” - Pete Seeger
“If I Had A Hammer” - Peter, Paul, and Mary
“So What” - Miles Davis
“My Favorite Things” - John Coltrane
Michael Rosen
Richard Weiner
Cloyd Duff
George Hamilton Green
“Log Cabin Blues” - G.H. Green
The Polka Belt in the USA
“Zyklus” - Karlheinz Stockhausen
“Concertino for Marimba” - Paul Creston
George Szell
Pierre Boulez
“Oiseaux Exotiques” - Olivier Messiaen
The Rite of Spring - Igor Stravinsky
“Third Construction” - John Cage
“Music for a Summer Evening” - George Crumb
Jan Williams
“Suite for Percussion” - Lou Harrison
“Inuksuit” - John Luther Adams
“Ionisation” - Edgard Varése
“Bolero” - Ravel
“Atmospheres” - György Ligeti
“String Quartet” - Witold Lutoslawski
String Quartet No. 14, Op. 131 - Ludwig van Beethoven
Al O’Connor
Tom Siwe
The LaSalle Quartet
Bill Youhass
Raves:
Marching Mizzou at St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2024