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From concert and album reviews to feature articles, Third Coast Percussion is in the news.
We are fortunate to have garnered critical acclaim and recognition for so many of our performances and projects. See for yourself what the buzz is all about by reading what the press has to say! Browse reviews, articles, and much more below.
BWW Review: Hubbard Street dance Chicago & Third Coast Percussion blend their talents into a fascinating event at The Wallis Annenberg Center for The Performing Arts
January 17, 2019, by Third Coast Percussion
January 16, 2019 by Valerie-Jean Miller Hubbard Street, a well-established Contemporary Dance Company presents an interesting collage of dance pieces that are demanding technique-wise yet so fluid and rhythmic they make it look effortless and fresh. I mention collage because the evening painted a bigger picture through each piece, making it complete by the finish. The sixteen dancers are amazing physical interpreters of a feeling, a mood, an emotion, a vibe. They are strong, versatile and vibrant. The pieces by themselves are each complex, deep, bold, unique; with maximum controlled energy, extreme focus and inner and outer strength required, or rather, mandatory to perform them. That verbiage might seem a bit jumbled, but it's what I felt after seeing these dancers perform... (That's my stream-of-consciousness statement) ... The opening, "Perfectly Voiceless" was the West Coast premiere of the Third Coast Percussion group's instrumental creation by Dev Hynes (Blood Orange) that…
Dreamy, Dazzling Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Third Coast Percussion, a dream collaboration
January 15, 2019, by Third Coast Percussion
January 12, 2019 by Victoria Looseleaf Collaborations can sometimes be risky business. But in the right hands—and feet—they can have wondrous results. Case in point: Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Third Coast Percussion, also Chicago-based, brought a dreamy, sometimes dazzling, sometimes delirious blend of music and dance to the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts over the weekend. Performing excerpts from a full-evening 2018 commission, which comprised the program’s first half, the troupes made use of original music by British composer Dévonte Hynes (better known as Blood Orange), with choreographers Emma Portner and Teddy Forance doing terpsichorean duty. The concert began with a musical interlude, “Perfectly Voiceless,” a minimalist shock of sounds played and arranged by Sean Connors, David Skidmore, Robert Dillon and Peter Martin on a variety of mallet-driven instruments. Setting the mood, the percussionists proved a virtuosic panoply of aural clarity, the Wallis’ acoustics sublime. As several…
Review: Hubbard Street Dance at the Wallis is pure poetry in motion
January 14, 2019, by Third Coast Percussion
January 11, 2019 by Laura Bleiberg From its humble beginnings in the mid-1970s, Hubbard Street Dance Chicago has been the little company that could, a jazz troupe launched and molded by former Broadway hoofer Lou Conte. Hubbard Street is still a small group (16 exceptional women and men), but it has become a mighty beacon of resplendent dancing, proved by the company’s show Thursday at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. Conte allowed Hubbard Street to outgrow its stylistic origins and organically find its own soul, becoming a home for Twyla Tharp’s early masterworks. Under Conte’s successor, Jim Vincent, and current leader Glenn Edgerton, the group has demonstrated a penchant for humongous physicality and established a repertory that’s edgy but still pleasing to audiences. Even pieces that fail to land their punch still exhibit an infectious brio. This was the case with the program’s first half, consisting of…
NPR Music’s 100 Best Songs of 2018
January 7, 2019, by Third Coast Percussion
We are thrilled that "Madeira River" from Paddle to the Sea was listed at #17 on NPR's 100 Best Songs of 2018! This listing includes music of all genres. Many thanks to NPR Music! See our listing and the rest of the honorees here.
The ArtsDesk: Best of 2018
, by Third Coast Percussion
Many thanks to Graham Rickson from The Arts Desk for listing Paddle to the Sea in the Best of 2018: Classical Albums! "Third Coast Percussion’s collectively composed Paddle to the Sea (Cedille), based on an iconic Canadian children’s book tracing a toy canoe’s journey downstream, is a mesmerising collage of bewitching sounds." See the original article and full listing here.
Second Inversion: Top 10 Albums of 2018
, by Third Coast Percussion
Many thanks to Second Inversion for listing Paddle to the Sea in their Top 10 Albums of 2018! We loved working with this fantastic classical music organization when we visited Seattle in January 2018. Second Inversion also presented the video premiere of Paddle to the Sea, which they graciously included in their 2018 Year in Review. Thank you to everyone at Second Inversion and their host, 98.1 KING FM in Seattle! Check out the video here, and the full Top 10 listing here.
The Wallis Presents Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and Third Coast Percussion
December 17, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
December 11, 2018 by BWW News Desk Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts presents the highly anticipated West Coast premiere of excerpts from the first collaboration between the acclaimed Chicago-based company Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, considered a major force in contemporary dance, and Grammy Award-winning Third Coast Percussion with three performances on Thursday, January 10 through Saturday, January 12, 2019, at 7:30 pm. The new works, both by Los Angeles choreographers, include "For All Its Fury" by YouTube sensation Emma Portner, who gained international attention for her video and tour choreography for Justin Bieber, and "Everything Must Go," by Teddy Forance, whose work has been featured on the hit television show "So You Think You Can Dance." Inspired by the principal of sustainability and loosely intertwined, the works feature a powerful score by British singer/songwriter/composer Devonté Hynes, also known as Blood Orange, that will be performed live on stage…
BLAA musical director Mauricio Peña: Music for the masses
, by Third Coast Percussion
We are very excited to perform in Bogotá, Columbia, in 2019! We'll perform at the Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango (BLAA), where music director Mauricio Peña is working "to make music affordable and go beyond the classical." Check out this profile of Peña from The Bogotá Post. December 13, 2018 by Franziska Bujara Mauricio Peña, the musical director of the BLAA, tells us about how they work to make music affordable and go beyond the classical. The Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango celebrated its 60th birthday this year. As well as a library housing two million books, the huge space in the Candelaria is home to a popular concert hall which was built a few years later. We caught up with musical director Mauricio Peña to find out more about the story of this extraordinary space. He starts by explaining that their mission is to preserve and promote all Colombian music, which is not…
Philip Glass review: World premiere of joyous ‘Perpetulum’
November 12, 2018, by Third Coast Percussion
November 10, 2018 by Howard Reich "...virtuosity and extroverted spirit..." "...Glass wrote the piece so meticulously – and TCP articulated it so crisply – that every note, phrase and line rang out lucidly." "A sense of joy pervaded all this music, thanks to the intricately interlocking figures Glass wrote and TCP’s fastidious execution of them." The listeners who packed Francis W. Parker School’s auditorium on Friday evening encountered Philip Glass in three guises: pianist, composer and raconteur. Two of them were quite appealing. Glass, 81, came at the invitation of the Chicago Humanities Festival and Third Coast Percussion, a Chicago ensemble that commissioned the composer to do something he’d never done before: write a stand-alone work for percussion quartet. The prospect of hearing a world premiere of a potentially significant opus by Glass, who next month will pick up a Kennedy Center Honor, explains why the event long had been…
Third Coast Percussion tackle a Philip Glass commission—and the ‘great composer’ problem
, by Third Coast Percussion
November 7, 2018 by Kerry O'Brien Many, many thanks to Kerry O'Brien for this wonderful feature article about our newest commission: Perpetulum, Philip Glass's first-ever work for percussion ensemble. We had a fantastic world premiere on November 9 at the Chicago Humanities Festival and can't wait to take Perpetulum on the road. Read excerpts from Kerry's insightful feature here, or read the whole article to learn more about Philip, the history of minimalist music, our own commissioning process, and how Perpetulum came to be. Thanks again to Kerry and the Chicago Reader! Philip Glass arrives in town this Friday to appear as part of the Chicago Humanities Festival, but he's no stranger to the city. He first came here in 1952 to begin his undergraduate studies at the University of Chicago at the prodigious age of 15. He remembers sitting outside jazz clubs like the Beehive in Hyde Park, too young to be admitted, listening to bebop waft…
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