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