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.
Liquid Music series begins with Glenn Kotche and Third Coast Percussion in ‘Wild Sound’
October 6, 2014, by Third Coast Percussion
October 6, 2014 by Britt Robson The third season of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Liquid Music series began with a bang — and a clang, a pebbly shake, and the unmistakable noise caused by unstuck tape. That just scratches the surface of the fascinating sonic and physical choreography involved in “Wild Sound,” a 43-minute composition that tickled the ears and teased the imagination of a sold-out crowd at the Music Room at SPCO Center in St. Paul Sunday night. It was the second-ever performance of the piece, following its world premiere at the University of Notre Dame on Friday, and will be reprised in the Music Room on Monday. (more…)
Third Coast contributes to ‘youthquake’ in city’s new-music scence
February 28, 2014, by Third Coast Percussion
February 25, 2014 by John von Rhein Sitting in a packed house of excited, engaged young people at a concert by Third Coast Percussion last week in the University of Chicago's Logan Center for the Arts, I was reminded how much the city's lively – and getting livelier all the time – new-music scene owes to the active involvement of this age group. Clearly there is something going on here: Audiences made up mostly of twentysomethings are eating up the music of living composers, whether the sounds are being served up in a formal concert space such as the Logan's inviting Performance Hall, or at an intimate alternative venue such as Constellation in Chicago's Roscoe Village. The enthusiasm of these rock-weaned young listeners clearly is being felt by the performers and is given back in their music-making. (more…)
‘Wild Sound’ human, organic
October 6, 2014, by Third Coast Percussion
October 5, 2014 by Andrew S. Hughes SOUTH BEND — Glenn Kotche’s “Wild Sound” couldn’t exist without today’s technology. With its superimposed live and pre-recorded videos; an audio track of such sounds as a barreling locomotive, rain falling and traffic in a city; microphones embedded throughout the stage and in instruments; and its Plexiglas synthesizers for its finale, technology’s an essential part of performing and experiencing “Wild Sound.” And yet, as Third Coast Percussion showed in its world premiere performance Friday night at the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, “Wild Sound” is a deeply human, organic work at heart that, over and over, turns everyday sounds into music — grains of rice, for example, or the rubber of a bicycle tire that produces a delicious, warm bass note or a drum made from a large cardboard tube with packing tape serving as the drumhead. (more…)
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.
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