Third Coast Percussion and Flutronix Playbill 02/19/23

MODLIN ARTS PRESENTS

THIRD COAST PERCUSSION & FLUTRONIX

FEBRUARY 19 | 3:00 PM

Pre-Show Artist Talk | 2:00 PM

Camp Concert Hall

PHOTO CREDIT: NICK ZOULEK

Thank You

THIS ENGAGEMENT OF THIRD COAST PERCUSSION & FLUTRONIX

IS MADE POSSIBLE IN PART BY THE GENEROUS SUPPORT OF Louis S. Booth Arts Fund A. Dale Mayo Fund

H. G. Quigg Fund

Virginia B. Modlin Endowment

THANKS TO OUR 2022-2023 MODLIN ARTS PRESENTS SEASON SPONSORS & PARTNERS

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation

Cultural Affairs Committee Dewitt Fund for the Arts

Clinton Webb Fund

You Belong Here

WELCOME

Welcome back to Modlin Center for the Arts! I am grateful for this opportunity to be together again and thrilled with the season we have put together because I know that every artist can—and will—create unforgettable moments.

Across our 2022-2023 season, you will find artists from a variety of backgrounds and cultures, with an emphasis on BIPOC and women-led companies. And you will discover a range of stories, dance, and music of many different genres—some familiar, others new. Each performance is a unique window into the human experience, which I hope will open new paths for conversation and connection.

As the season continues, I look forward to visiting with you in the lobby and hearing about your experiences at the Modlin Center. We want you to be a part of the Modlin community. The Department of Music Free Concert Series and UR Free Theatre and Dance season add 30+ additional opportunities to see compelling performances. And UR Museums host exhibitions and programs that are free and open to the public. Thank you for being with us.

Paul Brohan, Executive Director

MODLIN ARTS

SEPTEMBER

FRI. 9 7:30 PM David Esleck Trio

THU. 15 7:30 PM Steep Canyon Rangers

SUN. 18 3:00 PM Joanne Kong, piano, harpsichord and clavichord

THU. 22 7:30 PM DeLanna Studi, And So We Walked

FRI. 23 7:30 PM Family Weekend Concert

WED. 28 7:30 PM Dreamers' Circus

THU.-FRI 29-30 7:30 PM Smart People

OCTOBER

SAT. 1 7:30 PM Smart People

SUN. 2 2:00 PM Smart People

SUN. 2 7:30 PM Dorrance Dance, SOUNDspace

THU. 6 7:30 PM Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi

FRI. 14 7:30 PM Bill Irwin, On Beckett

SUN. 16 2:00 PM 12th Annual Celebration of Dance

FRI. 21 7:30 PM Step Afrika!, Drumfolk

SUN. 23 3:00 PM Sonia De Los Santos, Family Arts Day

THU. 27 7:30 PM Susanna Phillips, soprano

SUN, 30 3:00 PM UR Schola Cantorum and Women's Chorale

NOVEMBER

FRI.-SAT. 4-5 Multiple Third Practice Music Festival* CANCELED

WED. 9 7:30 PM UR Jazz & Contemporary Combos

THUR. 10 7:30 PM Aaron Diehl Trio

SAT. 12 6:30 PM 8:30 PM Amal Kassir

SUN. 13 3:00 PM Preservation Hall Jazz Band, 60 thAnniversary Celebration

WED. 16 7:30 PM UR Jazz Ensemble

THU.-SAT. 17-19 7:30 PM Miss You Like Hell

SUN. 20 2:00 PM Miss You Like Hell

SUN. 20 3:00 PM Global Sounds

MON. 21 7:30 PM UR Wind Ensemble

MON. 28 7:30 PM UR Chamber Ensembles

WED. 30 7:30 PM UR Symphony Orchestra

DECEMBER

SUN. 4 5:00 PM 8:00 PM 49th Annual Festival of Lessons and Carols

*Visit thirpractice.org for a full schedule of events.

JANUARY

SAT. 21 7:30 PM Kronos Quartet, At War With Ourselves

FRI. 27 7:30 PM Mark Morris Dance Group, The Look of Love

FEBRUARY

WED. 1 7:30 PM Richard Becker, piano

FRI. 3 7:30 PM Fred Hersch and esperanza spalding

SUN. 5 3:00 PM Anthony McGill, clarinet, and Gloria Chien, piano

FRI. 10 7:30 PM Rosanne Cash

WED. 15 7:30 PM Joshua Redman, 3x3

SUN. 19 3:00 PM Third Coast Percussion and Flutronix

WED. 22 7:30 PM Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

THU.-SAT. 24-26 7:30 PM University Dancers 38th Annual Concert

SUN. 26 3:00 PM Kayhan Kalhor, kamancheh

MARCH

WED. 1 7:30 PM Ashwini Ramaswamy, Let the Crows Come

SUN. 19 3:00 PM Doris Wylee-Becker, piano

MON. 20 7:30 PM Neumann Lecture on Music, Dr. Sherry D. Lee, Professor of Musicology

MON. 27 7:30 PM Bruce Stevens, organ

FRI. 31 7:30 PM Christian McBride’s New Jawn

WED. 5 7:30 PM UR Symphony Orchestra

THUR. 6 7:30 PM UR Jazz & Contemporary Combos

WED. 12 7:30 PM Leyla McCalla

THU.-SAT. 13-15 7:30 PM The Rivals

SAT. 15 3:00 PM Global Sounds

APRIL

SUN, 16 3:00 PM UR Schola Cantorum and Women's Chorale

SUN. 16 2:00 PM The Rivals

TPO, Farfalle

SUN.

MODLIN ARTS PRESENTS

THIRD COAST PERCUSSION & FLUTRONIX

Flutronix

Nathalie Joachim

Allison Loggins-Hull

and

Third Coast Percussion

Sean Connors Robert Dillon

PROGRAM ORDER

Like a Storm

Water Babies from Black Being

Peter Martin David Skidmore

Flutronix

Flutronix

Flock Flutronix

Flutronix

Perspective (2020)

Paradigm

Obscure

Derivative

Fourth Perspective

Dissonance

Duality

Embryo

Third Coast Percussion

Jlin (b. 1987)

PHOTO CREDIT: NICK ZOULEK

Rubix (2021) Flutronix & Third Coast Percussion Still Play

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Flutronix & Third Coast Percussion

Approximate run time for this performance is 1 hour 10 minutes, with no intermission.

PROGRAM NOTES

Jlin (Jerrilynn Patton) is a producer based in Gary, Indiana. Her unique and evolving electronic sound is rooted in Chicago’s iconic footwork style, with additional influences ranging from Nina Simone to Igor Stravinsky. Jlin’s work assembles evocative and vivid sounds into a musical style that she describes as “clean, precise, and unpredictable.” Her debut album Dark Energy was released to critical acclaim in 2015, and her second album Black Origami in 2017 to rave reviews from NPR Music and Pitchfork. She has written music for Kronos Quartet and choreographer Wayne McGregor, and has recently performed at the Big Ears Festival, Whitney Museum of Art, and Toledo Museum of Art, among others.

Perspective

Jlin’s seven-movement work was written for Third Coast Percussion through a highly collaborative process. After exploring and sampling instruments from TCP’s vast collection of percussion sounds at their studio in Chicago, she created an electronic version of each of the work’s seven movements using these samples and other sounds from her own library. The members of Third Coast Percussion then set about determining how to realize these pieces in live performance. Diving into each of the audio tracks, the percussionists found dozens of sonic layers, patterns that never seem to repeat when one would expect them to, and outrageous sounds that are hard to imagine recreating acoustically. Even typical percussion sounds like snare drum, hi-hat, or kick drum exist in multiple variations, subtle timbral shades in counterpoint or composite sounds.

In pursuit of the broad expressive range of Jlin’s original tracks, TCP’s live version of this piece incorporates mixing bowls filled with water, bird calls, and a variety of gongs and tambourines, as well as many variations of

PHOTO CREDIT: EBRU YILDIZ

drum set-like sounds: instruments that are like a hi-hat but not a hi-hat, or serve the function of a snare drum but are not a snare drum.

Jlin named her piece Perspective as a reference to this unique collaborative process, that this work would exist in two forms, the same music as interpreted through different artists and their modes of expression.

Perspective by Jlin was commissioned for Third Coast Percussion by the Boulanger Initiative, the Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation, Carnegie Hall, the Lester & Hope Abelson Fund for the Performing Arts at the Chicago Community Foundation, the DEW Foundation, and Third Coast Percussion’s New Works Fund.

Duration: 31 minutes

Rubix, Third Coast Percussion’s collaboration with Flutronix, eschews the typical model of classical music, where an individual, specialized composer writes music for a group of performers. Instead, for this work, all six performers worked together to co-compose three movements of different characters. Prompted by concepts for musical games or directed improvisation, each musician brought semi-composed textures, sketches, or performance instructions that the ensemble sculpted together through improvisation, conversation, and collaboration into their final, throughcomposed form. While Flutronix regularly compose together as a duo, and TCP has collaboratively composed a few works as a quartet, this is the first time that either ensemble has co-composed with musicians outside of their ensembles.

Rubix was commissioned by The Third Coast Percussion New Works Fund, the Maxine & Stuart Frankel Foundation, Jana French and Peter Gotsch, and the Robert and Isabelle Bass Foundation.

Rubix and Jlin’s Perspective are featured on Third Coast Percussion’s album “Perspectives” on Cedille Records, which was released in May 2022, and nominated for GRAMMY® Awards for “Best Chamber Music/ Small Ensemble Performance” and “Best Engineered Album, Classical.”

Duration: 14 minutes

ENSEMBLE BIOS

Flutronix is Nathalie Joachim and Allison Loggins-Hull, two distinguished performers and composers who are paving the way from their classical roots to the future of music. Founded in Brooklyn, NY, in 2007, the duo have evolved as influential creators and socially conscious changemakers. Their current large-scale projects rooted in this space include Discourse, an evening-length communitycentered performance activism initiative, and Black Being, an immersive electro-acoustic song-cycle with orchestra, examining the complexities of Black womanhood, featuring newly commissioned text by North Carolina Poet Laureate Jaki Shelton Green. In addition to their collaborative creations, the duo support each other regularly on individual projects, and as producers on recorded work, including Joachim’s GRAMMY-nominated Fanm d’Ayiti. Flutronix independently publishes their extensive catalog of chamber works, and are dedicated educators who have held appointments at Montclair State University, Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, University of Hartford, The Perlman Music Program and more. Joachim currently serves as Assistant Professor of Composition at Princeton University, and Loggins-Hull is The Cleveland Orchestra’s Daniel R. Lewis Composer Fellow.

PHOTO CREDIT: ERIN PATRICE O’BRIEN

Third Coast Percussion is a GRAMMY® Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet and GRAMMY®-nominated composer collective. For over fifteen years, the ensemble has created exciting and unexpected performances that constantly redefine the classical music experience. The ensemble has been praised for “commandingly elegant” (New York Times) performances, the “rare power” (Washington Post) of their recordings, and “an inspirational sense of fun and curiosity” (Minnesota Star-Tribune). Third Coast Percussion maintains a busy tour schedule, with past performances in 39 of the 50 states and Washington, DC, plus international tour dates across 4 continents.

A direct connection with the audience is at the core of all of Third Coast Percussion’s work, whether the musicians are speaking from the stage about a new piece of music, inviting the audience to play along in a concert or educational performance, or inviting their fans around the world to create new music using one of their free mobile apps. The four members of Third Coast are also accomplished teachers, and make active participation by all students the cornerstone of all their educational offerings.

The quartet’s curiosity and eclectic taste have led to a series of unlikely collaborations that have produced exciting new art. The ensemble has worked with engineers at the University of Notre Dame, architects at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, dancers at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and musicians from traditions ranging from the mbira music of Zimbabwe’s Shona people, to indie rockers and footwork producers, to some of the world’s leading concert musicians. Third Coast Percussion served as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Notre Dame’s

PHOTO CREDIT: SAVERIO TRUGLIA

DeBartolo Performing Arts Center from 2013—2018, and currently serves as ensemble-in-residence at Denison University.

A commission for a new work from composer Augusta Read Thomas in 2012 led to the realization that commissioning new musical works can be— and should be—as collaborative as any other artistic partnership. Through extensive workshopping and close contact with composers, Third Coast Percussion has commissioned and premiered new works by Philip Glass, Missy Mazzoli, Danny Elfman, Gemma Peacocke, Flutronix, Jlin, Tyondai Braxton, Augusta Read Thomas, Devonté Hynes, Georg Friedrich Haas, Donnacha Dennehy, Glenn Kotche, Christopher Cerrone, David T. Little and today’s leading up-and-coming composers through their Currents Creative Partnership program. TCP’s commissioned works have become part of the ensemble’s core repertoire and seen hundreds of performances across four continents.

Third Coast Percussion’s recordings include fourteen feature albums, and appearances on fourteen additional releases. The quartet has put its stamp on iconic percussion works by John Cage and Steve Reich, and Third Coast has also created first recordings of commissioned works by Philip Glass, Augusta Read Thomas, Devonté Hynes, Gavin Bryars, Donnacha Dennehy, David T. Little, Ted Hearne, and more, in addition to recordings of the ensemble’s own compositions. In 2017 the ensemble won the GRAMMY® Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance for their recording of Steve Reich’s works for percussion. Third Coast has since received 4 additional GRAMMY® nominations as performers, and in 2021 they received their first GRAMMY® nomination as composers.

Third Coast Percussion has always maintained strong ties to the vibrant artistic community in their hometown of Chicago. They have collaborated with Chicago institutions such as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, the Chicago Children’s Choir, the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Chicago Humanities Festival, and the Adler Planetarium. TCP performed at the grand opening of Maggie Daley Children’s Park, conducted residencies at the University of Chicago and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, created multi-year collaborative projects with Chicago-based composers Augusta Read Thomas, Glenn Kotche, and chamber ensemble Eighth

PHOTO CREDIT: SAVERIO TRUGLIA

Blackbird, and taught tens of thousands of students through partnerships with The People’s Music School, the Chicago Park District, Rush Hour Concerts, Urban Gateways, and others.

The four members of Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Skidmore) met while studying percussion music at Northwestern University with Michael Burritt and James Ross. Members of Third Coast also hold degrees from the Eastman School of Music, Rutgers University, the New England Conservatory, and the Yale School of Music. Stay up-to-date and go behind-the-scenes by following Third Coast on Twitter (@ThirdCoastPerc), Facebook (@Third Coast Percussion), Instagram (@ThirdCoastPercussion), and YouTube (@ thirdcoastpercussion).

*Third Coast Percussion is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization.

Third Coast Percussion

Ensemble

Sean Connors, Ensemble Member and Technical Director

Robert Dillon, Ensemble Member and Development Director

Peter Martin, Ensemble Member and Finance Director

David Skidmore, Ensemble Member and Executive Director

Reba Cafarelli, Managing Director

Colin Campbell, Production Manager

Rebecca McDaniel, Marketing and Development Manager

Mayshell Morris, Administrative Assistant

Board of Directors

Sara Coffou, President

Beth I. Davis, Vice-President

Mary K. Woolever, Secretary

Daniel Knaus, Treasurer

Jim Barasa

Teddy Boys

Friedrich Burian

Julio Desir, Jr.

Robert Dillon

Nimish Dixit

André Dowell

Jamie Jung

Leslie Larson Maheras

Sidney Robinson

Louise K. Smith

Catharine Fox Walby

Ethelbert Williams

Modlin Arts

CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF LINCOLN CENTER

Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2023

7:30 PM, Camp Concert Hall

When chamber music performance is both easygoing and insanely precise, the underlying substance of it has a way of penetrating deeply into the human psyche,” says The Berkshire Eagle. “They are defining, in real time, the very essence of chamber music.”

KAYHAN KALHOR, KAMANCHEH

Sunday, Feb. 26, 2023

3:00 PM, Camp Concert Hall

From an impressively young age, Kayhan Kalhor was delighting audiences in Iran with his performances on the kamancheh (spiked fiddle). An original member of Yo-Yo Ma’s Silkroad Ensemble, Ma says of Kalhor, “I think he’s one of the greatest musicians I’ve ever had the privilege to know and to work with.”

ASHWINI RAMASWAMY, LET THE CROWS COME

Wednesday, Mar. 1, 2023 • 7:30 PM

Post-Show Artist Talk

Alice Jepson Theatre

The title of Ashwini Ramaswamy’s new dance work – which is performed to live music by Jace Clayton (DJ Rupture) and Brent Arnold – refers to the Hindu practice of honoring ancestors through offerings of rice.

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Museums

JAY LYNN GOMEZ: DOMESTIC SCENES RECONSIDERED.

Jan 23, 2023 – Apr 21, 2023

Harnett Museum of Art

IMAGE CREDIT:

Jay Lynn Gomez (American, born 1986), No Splash (after David Hockney’s A Bigger Splash, 1967), acrylic on canvas, 96 x 96 inches, 2013. Courtesy of the artist and Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles. Permanent collection of Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. (c) Jay Lynn Gomez, Photo: Osceola Refetoff

SWAN SONG: CELEBRATING THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

Nov 03, 2022 - Apr 21, 2023

Harnett Museum of Art

IMAGE CREDIT:

Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, 1864-1901), La revue blanche, 1895, stone lithograph printed in four colors on two sheets of machine wove paper, 49 7/16 x 35 7/8 inches, Joel andLila Harnett Print Study Center, University of Richmond Museums, Gift of Jan and Howard Hendler, H2018.12.01

CRYSTALS: MINERALS FROM THE COLLECTION

Oct 13, 2022 – Apr 21, 2023

Harnett Museum of Art

IMAGE CREDIT:

Taylor Dabney

Rhodochrosite, MnCO3

Nchwaning Mine, Kuruman District, Northern Cape Province, South Africa

Museum purchase, R1978.01.1543