Last night A Magical Cirque Christmas opened at CIBC Theatre (18 W. Monroe), starring magician Lucy Darling (aka Carisa Hendrix) as hostess. Hendrix’s alter ego is a 1920s-style screwball dipsomaniac with a special talent for making bottles of booze and cocktails appear and disappear. She’ll be joining a lineup of circus artists in this family-friendly […]
Tag: Third Coast Percussion
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For the first time in nearly 60 years, Instrument for La Monte Young sings again
David Skidmore couldn’t even begin to count the number of instruments he’s played. As a member of Grammy Award favorites Third Coast Percussion (most recently nominated for Perspectives, released earlier this year), Skidmore could plausibly play instruments from all six habitable continents for any given performance—plus the odd metal scrap, surgical tube, or squeaky toy. […]
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Third Coast Percussion evolves along with the pandemic
Reba Cafarelli is managing director for Third Coast Percussion, working primarily in booking, marketing, and day-to-day operations. The ensemble is incorporated as a nonprofit, and it has a board of directors and three full-time employees in addition to its four members. In May 2022 Third Coast Percussion plans to release its next album, which will […]
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Third Coast Percussion’s family tree on the gig poster of the week
This week’s featured gig poster was designed by Sonnenzimmer (aka Nick Butcher and Nadine Nakanishi).
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Live music finds a way
Livestreaming allows Chicagoans to continue playing concerts for one another.
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The best Chicago albums of the 2010s: the critics’ ballots
Here’s where to see who voted for what and how the points got divvied up.
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The best Chicago albums of the 2010s
The Reader polled dozens of critics to arrive at an absolutely indisputable ranked list of several hundred records that will definitely not start any arguments.
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Third Coast Percussion tackle a Philip Glass commission—and the ‘great composer’ problem
Chicago quartet Third Coast Percussion have commissioned the first piece for percussion ensemble by minimalist giant Philip Glass, and it could help them do even more for the diverse emerging voices he sometimes overshadows.
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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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On Fillmore parlay a Brazilian epiphany into another rebirth
On Fillmore, the long-running duo of drummer Glenn Kotche and bassist Darin Gray, return after seven years with the loose, accessible Happiness of Living.
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This week’s Frequency Festival finds points of contact between classical, jazz, and the avant-garde
The concert series booked by the Reader‘s Peter Margasak throws its second annual six-day festival of boundary-erasing music.
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Blake Edwards of Vertonen on Danish composer and explosives expert Else Marie Pade
Current musical obsessions of Blake Edwards (aka noise artist Vertonen) and WLUW veteran Philip von Zweck
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Reader’s Agenda Tue 8/26: Third Coast Percussion, A Summer’s Tale, and the Beach Boys
What’s on the Reader’s Agenda for Tuesday, August 26
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Best shows to see: PS I Love You, Third Coast Percussion, T-Pain
The best shows to see on Mon 8/25 through Wed 8/27