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.
TUTTI Brings A Week Of Performances To Denison
March 14, 2019, by Third Coast Percussion
March 13, 2019 by Anusha Shukla The eighth installment took place from Monday, March 4th to Saturday March 9th hosted by Denison’s Department of Music collaborating with Studio Art, Data Analytics, Creative Writing, Physics, Philosophy and the Denison Museum. The festival, occurring every other year, was a week long and provided a series of eight concerts plus six more events that included artist talks, workshops and a seminar. For each concert, various composers submitted works to be performed by Denison students, faculty and the visiting ensembles. Those ensembles consisted of the Grammy award winning Third Coast Percussion, Denison’s ensemble-in-residence Ethel, the Columbus Symphony Quartet, the Chamber Music Connection and the Columbus International Children’s Choir. The festival highlighted many of Denison’s ensembles starting with the Denison Wind Ensemble and the Symphony Orchestra. The two groups performed on Thursday, March 7th at the Burke Recital Hall. The concert, second in the series,…
Guest performers have Foellinger ecstatic with ‘Music for 18 Musicians’
March 4, 2019, by Third Coast Percussion
March 3, 2019 by John Frayne On Feb. 16, as part of the Sonic Illinois series, Steve Reich's "Music for 18 Musicians" was performed by two guest groups, Eighth Blackbird and Third Coast Percussion, (both from Chicago) and nine local performers, making it 19 musicians. This 1976 composition has a cult reputation for being a landmark in the movement usually called minimalism. As usual, with cult pieces, it is frequently admired, even worshipped, by the cult members, somewhat to the bewilderment of the general run of classical music concertgoers. The claims made for the Reich piece are that it, and other minimalist pieces, upended the expectation of what a piece of music should sound like. Put bluntly, one expects a Beethoven work to start, and then to do something, go somewhere, and, one hopes, arrive somewhere. That is not what happens in the Reich piece. It begins with xylophone players…
2019 Taiwan International Percussion Convention to kick off May 24
January 31, 2019, by Third Coast Percussion
We are thrilled to be included in the 2019 Taiwan International Percussion Convention! This festival brings together some of the biggest names in percussion from around the world to perform an amazing variety of music. Read more below! We can't wait! January 29, 2019 by Huang Tzu-ti TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The 10th edition of the Taiwan International Percussion Convention (TIPC) will take place from May 24 through Jun. 1 and include a total of 15 performances at major art venues across the island. The shows will be staged at National Concert Hall in Taipei, National Taichung Theater, Tainan Municipal Cultural Center, and Dadong Arts Center in Kaohsiung. Since it was established in 1993, the event has grown to become a world-class music fiesta, and was hailed by French percussion ensemble Les Percussions de Strasbourg as “the Utopia in the world of music,” according to event sponsor Ju Percussion Group (朱宗慶打擊樂團).…
Third Coast Percussion following beat of own drumming at Baylor
January 25, 2019, by Third Coast Percussion
January 23, 2019 by Carl Hoover Percussionist Robert Dillon admits he and his colleagues have to think carefully about the relationship between programming and packing for a concert tour. The former involves what pieces bring the effect they want, the latter about the instruments needed to achieve that. Marimba? Snare drums? Wooden blocks? Tuned bells? “The question is how can we make a program artistically cohesive, but logistically possible?” said Dillon, a member of the quartet Third Coast Percussion, which plays at Baylor University’s Jones Concert Hall Thursday as part of the Distinguished Artists Series. Performing at a university with a well-resourced music school such as Baylor, he added, makes a lot of the packing easier as the four percussionists can draw on available instruments and bring only the ones needed to supplement them. Instruments are crucial for any musicians, but particularly so for a percussionist. When it comes to…
Hubbard Street Dance Can Do Anything and They Like to Prove It
January 22, 2019, by Third Coast Percussion
January 22, 2019 by Janice Berman Hubbard Street Dance Chicago last Saturday night at Zellerbach Hall offered a stunning show, capped with live music by Chicago band Third Coast Percussion. In the second of two weekend programs, the troupe — presented by Cal Performances — served up a banquet. When your reviewer last clapped eyes on Hubbard Street, at Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival in 1990 or so, it was to see a meticulously rendered Eight Jelly Rolls, by Twyla Tharp to the music of Jelly Roll Morton. Different era, different everything. Hubbard Street, once described as a jazz-dance company, is solidly modern, which means it can do anything it wants — that’s how the lines of demarcation have vanished. Vive la no difference. We grow and change, as Artistic Director Glenn Edgerton told me that night at intermission. Boy, don’t we ever. Edgerton, a star of the Joffrey Ballet when…
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.
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