Sun 1/19 @ 7:30PM
Chicago quartet Third Coast Percussion isn’t one of those cheesy percussion ensembles that are mainly about theatrical flash and sizzle. Their specialty is musical flash and sizzle.
They’ve performed (and commissioned) work by a staggering list of top contemporary composers including such well-known groundbreakers as Arvo Pärt, Steve Reich, John Cage, and George Crumb.
Not only does the group, whose members have trained at top conservatories and university music programs, sail across genre boundaries with tremendous ease, but they also embrace new media technology and work it into their shows, with iPhone and iPad apps that allow the audience to move from passive spectators to participants.
While the group’s performance schedule tends to be heaviest in the Chicagoland area (They were just named to a five-year residency at the University of Notre Dame’s Performing Arts Center in nearby South Bend, Indiana), they’ll be making a stop at Cleveland’s Transformer Station.
The program will include pieces like Reich’s “Music for Pieces of Wood,” Cage’s “Third Construction,” Thierry de Mey’s “Table Music,” Tobias Broström’s “Twilight,” and “Fractalia,” composed by Northwestern University director of percussion studies Owen Clayton Conden.
Tickets are $20, $18 for Cleveland Museum of Art members. Make reservations at the CMA website.