Program:
David Coll -- Hazardous Materials #1
Andrew Greenwald -- [99 Words]
Matthew Shlomowitz -- Popular Contexts #6
Thomas Meadowcroft -- The Great Knot
line upon line percussion seeks new ways for percussion instruments to advance contemporary art music by performing newly commissioned works alongside existent masterpieces, for adventurous and curious listeners. To date, the Austin-based trio has commissioned and premiered fourteen new works, four of which appear on their full-length, self-titled album. The group's in-house creative project, seeing times are not hidden, won top prize at the 2011 Music in Architecture-Architecture in Music Symposium at the University of Texas at Austin. The work involves over 1000 glass, metal and hardwood chimes suspended from the three arches of Waller Creek Bridge. In April 2013, line upon line gave the North American premiere of Hugues Dufourt's massive evening-length masterpiece, Erewhon, which enlists the use of nearly 150 percussion instruments. The group's self-presented concert series, now in its third year, was recently listed as one of the Top 10 Dance/Classical Music Treasures of 2014 by the Austin Chronicle. Its 2015-2016 opener, soft, received an honorable mention in the most recent version of the award.
$10 general, $5 students
12 midnight, 1750 Arch Street
$7 adv / $9 door. 644-2020. www.thefreight.org
7:30pm, Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse, 2020 Addison Street, Berkeley, CA, United States