Past Events › Chicago Concert Season

8:00 p.m. $20/$15 students and seniors APPLEBAUM Wrist Watch Geology TYMOCZKO Rock Dots (Chicago premiere) LUNSQUI Shi INGEBRISTEN Improvisation in an Altered State (world premiere) MUHLY Pillaging Music MELLITS Gravity (U.S. premiere) For our final Chicago concert of the season, we have crafted an evening of musical mayhem for Mayne Stage's intimate club atmosphere. The program blends rock, Renaissance counterpoint and electronic surround sound as we strike, rub and shake whisky bottles, grill grates, chopsticks, and more. This performance includes premieres by Chicago composers Marc Mellits and…

  Third Coast Percussion presents "Infinitesimal Machinery"   Thierry De Mey - Musique de Tables Nathan Davis - Simple Songs of Birth and Return John Cage - Branches David Lang - The So-Called Laws of Nature (part 3) John Cage- Duet for Cymbal Thomas Meadowcroft - The Great Knot   TCP opens their 2013-14 Chicago Concert Season with their first performance at Chicago's hip new venue Constellation, in a program that zooms in on tiny instruments to explore miniature sound…

  Third Coast Percussion presents "Infinitesimal Machinery"   Thierry De Mey - Musique de Tables Nathan Davis - Simple Songs of Birth and Return John Cage - Branches David Lang - The So-Called Laws of Nature (part 3) John Cage- Duet for Cymbal Thomas Meadowcroft - The Great Knot   TCP opens their 2013-14 Chicago Concert Season with their first performance at Chicago's hip new venue Constellation, in a program that zooms in on tiny instruments to explore miniature sound…

8:30 p.m. (doors at 8:00 p.m.) $20/$10  Click here for tickets BALTER dark rooms (TCP commission) FISHER-LOCHHEAD On Tenterhooks (TCP commission, world premiere) HEARNE Thaw (TCP commission) SHAW Taxidermy WOHL Pixelated WOLFE Dark Full Ride Third Coast returns to Constellation with "dark rooms," an evening of extreme sensory stimuli, featuring music by America's most innovative and omnivorous young composers. Marcos Balter (who was recently named to a Guggenheim Fellowship) composed dark rooms for Third Coast Percussion in 2007, one of TCP's first commissioned works. It…

8:30 p.m. (doors at 8:00 p.m.) $20/$10  Click here for tickets BALTER dark rooms (TCP commission) FISHER-LOCHHEAD On Tenterhooks (TCP commission, world premiere) HEARNE Thaw (TCP commission) SHAW Taxidermy WOHL Pixelated WOLFE Dark Full Ride Third Coast returns to Constellation with "dark rooms," an evening of extreme sensory stimuli, featuring music by America's most innovative and omnivorous young composers. Marcos Balter (who was recently named to a Guggenheim Fellowship) composed dark rooms for Third Coast Percussion in 2007, one of TCP's first commissioned works. It…

7:30 p.m. GUO WENJING Parade CAGE Third Construction THOMAS Resounding Earth (Chicago Premiere) Post-concert discussion with Augusta Read Thomas and Third Coast Percussion More info University of Chicago Residency Week

7:30 p.m. GUO WENJING Parade CAGE Third Construction THOMAS Resounding Earth (Chicago Premiere) Post-concert discussion with Augusta Read Thomas and Third Coast Percussion More info University of Chicago Residency Week

Preston Bradley Hall- 3:00 p.m. Free   ANDRES Austerity Measures (TCP commission, Chicago premiere) HJERTMANN Automatic Glitch (TCP commission, World premiere) SKIDMORE Trying (World premiere) Third Coast Percussion closes out the 2013-14 Chicago Concert Season with a program of all new works by rising stars of American composition. Timo Andres' Austerity Measures uses Bach's first two-part invention as a jumping off point for a journey through unimagined sound worlds. The first work commissioned through TCP's new Emerging Composers Partnership, Chicagoan Ben Hjertmann's Automatic…

Preston Bradley Hall- 3:00 p.m. Free   ANDRES Austerity Measures (TCP commission, Chicago premiere) HJERTMANN Automatic Glitch (TCP commission, World premiere) SKIDMORE Trying (World premiere) Third Coast Percussion closes out the 2013-14 Chicago Concert Season with a program of all new works by rising stars of American composition. Timo Andres' Austerity Measures uses Bach's first two-part invention as a jumping off point for a journey through unimagined sound worlds. The first work commissioned through TCP's new Emerging Composers Partnership, Chicagoan Ben Hjertmann's Automatic…

6:30 p.m. TCP goes on at 7:30 p.m. Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park A program featuring all new music by Chicago composers, including Augusta Read Thomas's epic "Resounding Earth," scored for over 125 bells from around the world. We are sharing the bill with Brooklyn-based grit pop band Ghost Beach. OWEN CLAYTON CONDON Fractalia MARC MELLITS Gravity DAVID SKIDMORE Percussion Quartets AUGUSTA READ THOMAS Resounding Earth Click here for more info.