TCP returns to Constellation to continue the Currents initiative they launched last season, dedicated to bringing new music and new ideas to their Chicago audience. This concert features premiere a new work by composer and educator Danny Clay based on musical games he developed for elementary school general music classes, groovy music for solo vibraphone and video by Nick Zammuto (The Books), expressive new pieces for marimbas written by Aaron Holloway-Nahum and ensemble Peter Martin, and the premiere of a full cycle of works with video by TCP's own David Skidmore.
Watch a video about Danny Clay's project for Third Coast Percussion.
Program:
Nick Zammuto: Green Yellow Green Red (co-commission)
Aaron Holloway-Nahum: How Animals Grieve (TCP commission, world premiere)
Danny Clay: Play Book (TCP commission, world premiere)
Peter Martin: new work (world premiere)
David Skidmore: Aliens with Extraordinary Abilities (world premiere)