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 Calling
Michael Udow Links:
Percussion Pedagogy - Michael Udow
Previous Podcast Guests Mentioned:
Other Links:
“Zyklus” - Karlheinz Stockhausen
“Kontakte” - Karlheinz Stockhausen
“Knocking Piece” - Ben Johnston
“The King of Denmark” - Morton Feldman
Raves: