Past Events › Chicago Concert Season

Performance of JLA's 99-person outdoor drum and fife extravaganza. Hosted by Eighth Blackbird and Chicago's newest intrepid percussion event organizer, Doug Perkins.

"Metal" Chicago Concert Season 7:30 p.m. $15/$10 students and seniors An evening of music for instruments made of metal, from the meditative resonance of Thai gongs to the driving clang of pots and pans.  Program features the Chicago premiere of Philippe Manoury's Métal, featuring custom-made metal keyboards that surround the audience. CAGE First Construction TENNEY Koan: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion LANG Anvil Chorus MANOURY Métal   Click here to purchase tickets Click here to watch video of TCP performing…

"Metal" Chicago Concert Season 7:30 p.m. $15/$10 students and seniors An evening of music for instruments made of metal, from the meditative resonance of Thai gongs to the driving clang of pots and pans.  Program features the Chicago premiere of Philippe Manoury's Métal, featuring custom-made metal keyboards that surround the audience. CAGE First Construction TENNEY Koan: Having Never Written a Note for Percussion LANG Anvil Chorus MANOURY Métal   Click here to purchase tickets Click here to watch video of TCP performing…

"Makro-American: Crumb/Reich" Featuring pianists Timothy Andres and David Kaplan 7:30 p.m. $15/$10 students and seniors Third Coast Percussion welcomes pianists Timothy Andres and David Kaplan for masterworks by two of America's most prized composers.  George Crumb's Music for a Summer Evening is a fractured evocation of nature and the cosmos, while Steve Reich's Sextet creates a steady drive of interlocking melodic patterns on a variety of keyboards. CRUMB Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) REICH Sextet Click here to purchase tickets.

"Makro-American: Crumb/Reich" Featuring pianists Timothy Andres and David Kaplan 7:30 p.m. $15/$10 students and seniors Third Coast Percussion welcomes pianists Timothy Andres and David Kaplan for masterworks by two of America's most prized composers.  George Crumb's Music for a Summer Evening is a fractured evocation of nature and the cosmos, while Steve Reich's Sextet creates a steady drive of interlocking melodic patterns on a variety of keyboards. CRUMB Music for a Summer Evening (Makrokosmos III) REICH Sextet Click here to purchase tickets.

8:00 p.m. $20/$15 students and seniors APPLEBAUM Wrist Watch Geology TYMOCZKO Rock Dots (Chicago premiere) LUNSQUI Shi INGEBRISTEN Improvisation in an Altered State (world premiere) MUHLY Pillaging Music MELLITS Gravity (U.S. premiere) For our final Chicago concert of the season, we have crafted an evening of musical mayhem for Mayne Stage's intimate club atmosphere. The program blends rock, Renaissance counterpoint and electronic surround sound as we strike, rub and shake whisky bottles, grill grates, chopsticks, and more. This performance includes premieres by Chicago composers Marc Mellits and…

8:00 p.m. $20/$15 students and seniors APPLEBAUM Wrist Watch Geology TYMOCZKO Rock Dots (Chicago premiere) LUNSQUI Shi INGEBRISTEN Improvisation in an Altered State (world premiere) MUHLY Pillaging Music MELLITS Gravity (U.S. premiere) For our final Chicago concert of the season, we have crafted an evening of musical mayhem for Mayne Stage's intimate club atmosphere. The program blends rock, Renaissance counterpoint and electronic surround sound as we strike, rub and shake whisky bottles, grill grates, chopsticks, and more. This performance includes premieres by Chicago composers Marc Mellits and…

  Third Coast Percussion presents "Infinitesimal Machinery"   Thierry De Mey - Musique de Tables Nathan Davis - Simple Songs of Birth and Return John Cage - Branches David Lang - The So-Called Laws of Nature (part 3) John Cage- Duet for Cymbal Thomas Meadowcroft - The Great Knot   TCP opens their 2013-14 Chicago Concert Season with their first performance at Chicago's hip new venue Constellation, in a program that zooms in on tiny instruments to explore miniature sound…

  Third Coast Percussion presents "Infinitesimal Machinery"   Thierry De Mey - Musique de Tables Nathan Davis - Simple Songs of Birth and Return John Cage - Branches David Lang - The So-Called Laws of Nature (part 3) John Cage- Duet for Cymbal Thomas Meadowcroft - The Great Knot   TCP opens their 2013-14 Chicago Concert Season with their first performance at Chicago's hip new venue Constellation, in a program that zooms in on tiny instruments to explore miniature sound…

8:30 p.m. (doors at 8:00 p.m.) $20/$10  Click here for tickets BALTER dark rooms (TCP commission) FISHER-LOCHHEAD On Tenterhooks (TCP commission, world premiere) HEARNE Thaw (TCP commission) SHAW Taxidermy WOHL Pixelated WOLFE Dark Full Ride Third Coast returns to Constellation with "dark rooms," an evening of extreme sensory stimuli, featuring music by America's most innovative and omnivorous young composers. Marcos Balter (who was recently named to a Guggenheim Fellowship) composed dark rooms for Third Coast Percussion in 2007, one of TCP's first commissioned works. It…