Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 454 - Michael Udow (Part 1)

Episode 454 - Michael Udow (Part 1) Pete's Percussion Podcast Composer, Percussionist, and Retired Professor of Percussion from the University of Michigan Michael Udow stops by to talk about “reassignment”, living in Colorado and staying in good physical and mental shape, letting go of regularly performing on percussion, and his compositional career (03:35), growing up in Detroit, Wichita and Pennsylvania, switching to percussion from piano, and the wide-ranging history of his earlier percussion life (27:50), and his career of getting into freelancing and getting the Fulbright Fellowship to study in Poland (59:50).Finishing with a Rave on the 2025 documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes (01:12:05).Pete’s new composition CallingMichael Udow Links:Michael Udow’s homepagePercussion Pedagogy - Michael UdowPrevious Podcast Guests Mentioned:Victoria Sparks in 2018Steven Schick in 2025Allen Otte in 2024Other Links:Judith WeirHans Werner HenzeLuciano BerioNey RosauroGeorge CrumbGeorge RochbergCharles WuorinenMilton BabbittBruce MillerJohn BaldwinClyde RollerRoger RollerMichael CombsJack McKenziePaul PriceMichael ColgrassWarren BensonThor JohnsonThomas SiweMichael Ranta“Zyklus” - Karlheinz Stockhausen“Kontakte” - Karlheinz StockhausenGarry KvistadNEXUSMichael BookspanAlan AbelRussell HartenbergerFred HingerSaul GoodmanBill CahnMark SunkettJ.B. SmithRichard Brown“Knocking Piece” - Ben Johnston“The King of Denmark” - Morton FeldmanMichael Brecker“Triple Duo” - Elliott CarterBlackEarth Percussion GroupAl O’ConnorRaves:Billy Joel: And So It Goes trailerBilly Joel: And So It Goes album on Spotify