Events

Encapsulating the adventurous and cutting-edge music of composer Steve Reich, beyond this point joins Grammy-winning ensembles Eighth Blackbird and Third Coast Percussion in bringing Reich's rich and complex Music for 18 Musicians to the stage.

beyond this point is joined by Matthew Duvall of Eighth Blackbird for an evening celebrating the numerous, varied approaches to percussion performance. The program’s first half features a collection of immersive, contemplative, and powerful works that explore the very substance of what defines the world of percussion: the base materials (stone, seed, metal, skin, cactus, wood) activated to musical purpose. The second half features Mauricio Kagel’s wildly absurd Dressur, a half-hour trio utilizing over 50 instruments and non-instruments--creating sound of theater and theater out of sound.

World Premiere performance in collaboration with University of Chicago composer Igor Santos and percussion ensemble in celebration of the fifth anniversary of the institution’s Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts.