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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.
Hubbard Street’s Spring Series a tribute to Czech choreographer’s sublime genius
March 17, 2014, by Third Coast Percussion
March 14, 2014 by Hedy Weiss It was the two pieces that followed, performed in quick and magical succession — “Sarabande,” for six men (to the music of Bach, electronically arranged by Dick Heuff), and “Falling Angels,” for eight women (to Steve Reich’s “Drumming,” given a fabulous live performance by Third Coast Percussion) — that fully blew the roof off the Harris. (more…)
Ticket: classical music
March 14, 2015, by Third Coast Percussion
March 14, 2015 By Jeremy Eichler STAVE SESSIONS The Celebrity Series branches out with this weeklong series showcasing leading lights of the alt-classical scene and other genre-bending artists. The lineup includes composer-singer-songwriter Gabriel Kahane (Tuesday), vocal project Roomful of Teeth (Wednesday), string quartet Brooklyn Rider (Friday), and Third Coast Percussion (pictured; Saturday). March 15-21, 160 Mass. Ave, 617-482-6661,www.celebrityseries.org (more…)
Chicago-area classical music picks
March 12, 2015, by Third Coast Percussion
March 12, 2015 by John von Rhein Third Coast Percussion: The Chicago group presents a concert showcasing newly commissioned works by emerging composers. Featured, along with music of Mark Applebaum, Adam Cuthbert, Robert Dillon and Tyshawn Sorey, will be the world premiere of Jonathan Pfeffer's "Jonathan was killed in battle against the Philistines." 8:30 p.m. Sunday, Constellation Chicago, 3111 N. Western Ave.; $20;thirdcoastpercussion.com (more…)
Miller Theatre “Composer Portrait”: Augusta Read Thomas
March 5, 2015, by Third Coast Percussion
March 5, 2015 Two of the leading young forces for contemporary music in America—the JACK Quartet and Third Coast Percussion—team up to celebrate the achievements of Thomas, long the master of an intricate and colorful modernist style. The New York première of “Resounding Earth,” a work involving more than three hundred percussion instruments, lies at the heart of a concert that also includes an excerpt from the string quartet “Sun Threads” and two world premières. (Columbia University, Broadway at 116th St. 212-854-7799. March 5 at 8.) Read the original article here.
Third Coast Percussion To Perform Bell-Centric ‘Resounding Earth’
February 25, 2015, by Third Coast Percussion
February 25, 2015 by Cara Lieurance An interview with David Skidmore of Third Coast Percussion. David Skidmore is a founder of Third Coast Percussion, which was established in Chicago in 2005. Although a percussion quartet may not be as easily visualized as a string quartet, he says it one of the ensemble's great strengths: his group can draw on millennia of instruments from the six inhabited continents of the globe, making one Third Coast Percussion concert look, and sound, completely different from the next. Third Coast Percussion will perform a major modern work, Resounding Earth, at Western Michigan University Wednesday night. The composer, Augusta Read Thomas, developed the piece out of her fascination for tintinnabulation, or, the sound patterns of bells. Written with Third Coast Percussion in mind, Skidmore says it is a modern masterpiece for percussion, which reveals new depths each time it is performed. Read the original article and hear the interview here.
Ringing In the New
March 20, 2014, by Third Coast Percussion
March 19, 2014 by Kyle MacMillan Augusta Read Thomas is bats about bells. The nationally known Chicago composer has included them in her music and has used other instruments to evoke their ringing tone and resonance. In her new piece she takes her infatuation further than ever. "Resounding Earth" incorporates 125 bells and other instruments and metal items that make bell-like sounds—300 objects overall. "It wasn't like, 'OK, now, I'll do something crazy.'" she said. "It was to take something that was true to my music and push it all the way." The 35-minute piece, which next will be performed March 24 at the University of Buffalo and March 26 at Penn State Erie, was commissioned for Third Coast Percussion by the University of Notre Dame's DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. Since the work's world premiere in September 2012, the Chicago-based ensemble has performed it nearly 20 times across the…
Classical Playlist
, by Third Coast Percussion
May 19, 2014 by Steve Smith DAVID T. LITTLE: ‘Haunt of Last Nightfall’ Third Coast Percussion (New Amsterdam) David T. Little is quickly gaining a reputation as an opera composer of substantial promise, but “Haunt of Last Nightfall,” a percussion work just over half an hour long, shows that his dramatic instincts extend well beyond the theatrical stage. Billed as a “ghost play” inspired by a 1981 massacre in El Salvador, the music moves from rusticity through violence, despair and outrage in this eloquent account by Chicago’s versatile, resourceful Third Coast Percussion. Read the original article here.
Third Coast Percussion delivers powerful Thomas premiere at Logan Center
February 28, 2014, by Third Coast Percussion
February 22, 2014 by Michael Cameron It must have been heartening for contemporary music aficionados to see a nearly full house for Third Coast Percussion at the Logan Center in Hyde Park Friday. A major draw at the University of Chicago Presents event was the highly anticipated local premiere of Augusta Read Thomas’ Resounding Earth, written for the quartet in 2012 and already the focus of a highly acclaimed recording. (more…)
Review: CMA at Transformer Station – Third Coast Percussion
January 21, 2014, by Third Coast Percussion
January 20, 2014 by Daniel Hautzinger Rhythm. It’s the first thing that pops into someone’s head when they hear the word “percussion.” But percussion is such a broad term that it can stretch far beyond just playing beats. Third Coast Percussion’s packed CMA concert at Transformer Station on January 19 provided many such examples of percussion’s fantastic versatility. (more…)
Third Coast Percussion makes a hit with Ensemble Music audience at the Toby
November 18, 2013, by Third Coast Percussion
November 15, 2013 by Jay Harvey There was everything from the raucous to the ethereal in Third Coast Percussion's concert Thursday night at the Indianapolis Museum of Art — offering more bang for the Ensemble Music buck. The Chicago-based quartet, currently enjoying a residency at the University of Notre Dame, played three substantial works in the simpatico setting of the Tobias Theater, whose wide, high stage allowed the ensemble's sounds to flower throughout the hall. Lighting was complementary, particularly in the concluding piece, Augusta Read Thomas' "Resounding Earth," which was written last year for the ensemble. Three works were played by the versatile, dead-on-precise foursome of David Skidmore, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin and Sean Connors. Thomas's celebration of bell sonorities occupied the second half, its four movements saturated with tintinnabulation, a cosmic and never darkening expansion of Edgar Allan Poe's verse echo chamber. (more…)
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