When the Printed Program Doesn’t Matter
Valentine’s Day afternoon at the Chicago Cultural Center Third Coast Percussion played a concert of four works that I wasn’t lucky enough to get a printed program for. But that was OK because the music was great and the crew spoke about all the pieces, especially the in the second half when composer, Martin Bresnick, explained his inspiration from Goya’s sketches Los desastres de la guerra for the last piece, which was a
collection of “Farandoles” in their Spanish interpretation, acompanied by Goya slides compiled by his daughter.
http://www.martinbresnick.com/programnotes/caprichosenfaticos.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farandole
Third Coast Percussion has quite a following judging by my sightings of local New Music enthusiasts.
[I'm going to name names here]
Larry Axelrod
Teddy Boys
Amy Briggs
Lisa Kaplan
Mabel Kwan
Janice Misurell-Mitchell
Bernard Rands
Daniel Schlosberg
Augusta Read Thomas
Percussion in the largest ceramic “bathroom shower” in the city can’t fail to get you going.
–
Bruce
