This weekend you can hear adventurous new compositions played on 100 tons of bronze bells hanging in a church tower.
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Eight hands make light work for Third Coast Percussion
Third Coast Percussion are already one of the best ensembles of their kind in the country—and their upcoming projects with Philip Glass and Devonté Hynes could make them the biggest.
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Spektral Quartet and Third Coast Percussion celebrate the work of Augusta Read Thomas
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s prestigious Mead Composer-in-Residence for the longest term so far (from 1997 to 2006, under both Daniel Barenboim and Pierre Boulez), Augusta Read Thomas has been an indefatigable force in new music in Chicago as a composer, educator, and curator. Since 2010 she’s been a professor of music composition at the University […]
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The Ear Taxi Festival tours Chicago’s rich contemporary classical scene
The Ear Taxi Festival presents more than 80 new works in its six-day tour of Chicago’s rich contemporary classical scene.
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Reader’s Agenda Fri 2/21: More bopping, bike art, and Third Coast Percussion
What’s on the Reader‘s Agenda for Friday, February 21
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Gossip Wolf: Spektral Quartet crowdfunds modern-classical ringtones
Spektral Quartet crowdfunds modern-classical ringtones, Dean Ween sits in with a local Ween tribute band, and more.