Third Coast Percussion Paddle to the Sea SAVERIO TRUGLIA SAVERIO

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DEPARTMENT OF These performances are made possible in part by: PERFORMING ARTS, MUSIC, The P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund AND FILM The Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund The Cleveland Museum of Art The Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund 11150 East Boulevard The Frank and Margaret Hyncik Memorial Fund Cleveland, Ohio 44106–1797 The Adolph Benedict and Ila Roberts Schneider Fund The Arthur, Asenath, and Walter H. Blodgett Memorial Fund [email protected] The Dorothy Humel Hovorka Endowment Fund cma.org/performingarts The Albertha T. Jennings Musical Arts Fund #CMAperformingarts

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Sunday, February 11, 2018 TICKETS 1–888–CMA–0033 cma.org/performingarts Welcome to the PerformingThird Coast Arts 2017–18Percussion Cleveland Museum of Art Sean Connors • Robert Dillon • Peter Martin • David Skidmore cma.org/performingarts The Cleveland Museum of Art’s performing arts series #CMAperformingartsSunday, February 11, 2018, 2:00 p.m. offers a fascinating concert calendar notable for its Gartner Auditorium, the Cleveland Museum of Art boundless multiplicity. This year, visits from old friends Chamber Music in the Galleries CIM Organ Studio Wednesday, October 4, 6:00 Sunday, March 11, 2:00 and new bring century-spanning music from around the globe, exploring cultural connections that link the human Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9 Wu Man & heart and spirit. Wednesday, October 11, 7:30 Huayin Shadow Puppet Band Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 LouPROGRAM Harrison Centennial In the Galleries Friday, October 20, 7:30 Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, April 4, 6:00 Eyewitness Views: Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday,Paddle November to 1,the 6:00 Sea Tallis Scholars Making History in Eighteenth-Century Europe Friday, April 13, 7:30 Feb 25–May 20 SQÜRL (Jim“Madeira” Jarmusch * & Carter Logan) ChamberPhilip Glass Music (b. in the1937)/ Galleries Beyond Angkor: Wednesday, November 1, 7:30 Wednesday,arr. Third Coast May 2, Percussion6:00 Cambodian Sculpture from Banteay Chhmar Ji Aeri Through March 25 Sunday,“Crystalline” November ^ 5, 2:00 Jacob Druckman (1928–1996) Heritage: Wadsworth and Jae Jarrell Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday,Paddle to December the Sea, 6, Act 6:00 1 Third Coast Percussion Through February 25 Davide“Amazon” Mariano * Glass/arr. TCP Dana Schutz: Eating Atom Bombs Sunday, January 14, 2:00 Through April 15 at Transformer Station Chamber“Relentless” Music in ^ the Galleries Druckman Wednesday, February 7, 6:00 Brett Weston: Photographs Paddle to the Sea, Act 2 Third Coast Percussion Through May 6 Third Coast Percussion Sunday, February 11, 2:00 “Profound” ^ Druckman Rodin—100 Years Mantra Percussion Through May 13 Friday,“Xingu” February * 23, 7:30 Glass/arr. TCP Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper Oberlin Contemporary Paddle to the Sea, Act 3 Third Coast Percussion Through May 13 Music Ensemble Sunday, March 4, 2:00 “Fleet” ^ Druckman William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise Chamber Music in the Galleries Through November 11 Wednesday, March 7, 6:00 Paddle to the Sea, Coda Third Coast Percussion

Please turn off all electronic devices before entering Chigwaya Traditional/arr. Musekiwa the performance hall. Chingodza and TCP

Photography and audio/video recording in the performance hall are prohibited. * – from Aguas da Amazonia ^ – from Reflections on the Nature of Water for solo marimba “Paddle to the Sea” ©1966 National Film Board of Canada the long journey possible—rather than keeping “Paddle” for Music Performed by Third Coast Percussion themselves, those who find the figurine choose to send him Stage Direction by Leslie Buxbaum Danzig further along the waterways, perhaps with a fresh coat of paint Lighting and Video Design by Joseph Burke or a new rudder. In building a performance project around this story, the four This project is supported by the Paul M. Angell Family members of Third Coast Percussion composed music together Foundation, and a grant from the National Endowment for as a team to perform live with the 1966 film adaptation of the Arts, with additional support from the Elizabeth F Cheney Paddle-to-the-Sea — music inspired by, and interspersed with, Foundation, and is made possible through a collaboration with other music that bears thematic connections to water. This other the National Film Board of Canada. music represents different aspects of our own musical journeys and places us in the role of musical stewards, adding what we can to each work and sending it out again into the world for others to experience.

Paddle to the Sea was commissioned by the Cleveland Museum Reflections on the Nature of Water for solo marimba of Art, the Meany Center for the Performing Arts at University of (Jacob Druckman) Washington, ArtsLIVE at University of Dayton, and the University Winner of the 1972 Pulitzer Prize in music, Jacob Druckman of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. was composer-in-residence for the New York Philharmonic from 1982–85, and held teaching positions at Juilliard, the Aspen Music Festival, Tanglewood, Brooklyn College, and Yale PROGRAM NOTES University. His 1986 marimba opus is one of the few works to have maintained a place over many decades in the relatively This afternoon’s performance includes music composed young canon of marimba solo music. Each movement explores collaboratively by the members of Third Coast Percussion, a different character that water can embody, intricately interwoven with pre-existing music by American composers and evocatively mapping those characters on the marimba. Philip Glass (arranged by Third Coast) and Jacob Druckman, and The movements are concise but unhurried, gentle but traditional music of the Shona people of Zimbabwe. The music uncompromising, inviting the listener to discover the rippling composed by Third Coast Percussion accompanies the 1966 film flow of an asymmetrical groove, an abundance of musical Paddle to the Sea. The other works are performed with newly content in a single flickering gesture, or the powerful calm of created video art by Joseph Burke. stillness between notes. Four of the work’s six movements appear on today’s program. “Please Put Me Back in the Water” The protagonist of Holling C. Holling’s 1941 children’s book Aguas da Amazonia (Philip Glass/Uakti/Third Coast Paddle-to-the-Sea is a small wooden figure in a canoe, lovingly Percussion) carved by a Native Canadian boy. From the Nipigon Country north of Lake Superior, the figure travels for years through the While Druckman’s solo revels in textures and timbres unique to Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway out to the Atlantic Ocean the marimba, this music by Philip Glass has experienced multiple and beyond, encountering a variety of people, creatures, and lives on different musical instruments. Glass’s 12 Pieces for

4 environments along the way. Indeed, these encounters make 5 Ballet, originally composed for piano, was arranged by Brazilian of the water-related works on this program. In connecting their musical group Uakti for their own gamut of instruments, many disparate aesthetics while creating something new, we found of which were custom-made and built by the performers. This an opportunity to express this moment in our ensemble’s own new version of the piece was renamed after the Amazon river musical journey. and its tributaries. Drawing on both the Uakti arrangement The score’s musical content corresponds to many of the and the original piano music, the members of Third Coast main themes in the film: the “boy theme,” first heard about Percussion arranged a handful of these pieces, exploiting our minute into act 1, puts a simple melody on pitched desk bells vast instrument arsenal and experimenting with color blends over playful skittering wood blocks, ceramic tiles, and other across the spectrum from “non-pitched” to “pitched” percussion. quirky sounds; the “journey” that begins a few minutes later Arranging Glass’s music pushed us to reimagine familiar material is soaring, Philip Glass–inspired music for almglocken (tuned with a different sound palette and offered a chance to live cowbells), drum set, and keyboards; our “placid” theme is a inside the music of one of the most recognized voices in the simple heartbeat in the low register of the marimba; and the contemporary classical music world. sections we dubbed “turmoil” are marked by driving drum figures in rhythms borrowed from the last movement of Chigwaya (Traditional/Musekiwa Chingodza/Third Druckman’s Reflections on the Nature of Water. We developed Coast Percussion) and combined these themes in different ways to form a musical In recent years, the four of us have been fortunate to be able to narrative that parallels the exuberance, danger, loneliness, and expand our artistic practice and musical knowledge with a study infinite possibility of Paddle’s voyage. of Shona music from Zimbabwe, and the mbira, a thumb piano Third Coast Percussion’s album Paddle to the Sea, featuring that plays a leading role in this music. In preparation for this the music on today’s program and more, will be released on project, our mentor Musekiwa Chingodza taught us Chigwaya, a Cedille Records in February 2018. song used to call water spirits in the Shona religion. Chigwaya— literally “the bream fish”—is a symbol for the water spirits or mermaid spirits, who can impart wealth or healing powers but ABOUT THE ARTISTS can also be dangerous or demanding. As in many traditional Shona songs, each musician develops their own version of Third Coast Percussion is a Grammy Award-winning, artist-run Chigwaya. Musekiwa taught us the ways he might perform quartet of classically-trained percussionists hailing from the the piece on the mbira or our marimbas, as well as drum, great city of Chicago. For over ten years, the ensemble has hosho (shaker) and voice parts. The rendition in this program forged a unique path in the musical landscape with virtuosic, is our own mbira-focused interpretation of what we learned energetic performances that celebrate the extraordinary depth from Musekiwa. We encourage listeners to explore Musekiwa and breadth of musical possibilities in the world of percussion. Chingodza’s own discography and learn more about this great The ensemble has been praised for “commandingly elegant” artist through Kutsinhira Cultural Arts Center, the Oregon-based (New York Times) performances, the “rare power” (Washington nonprofit that hosts his biennial visits to the United States. Post) of their recordings, and “an inspirational sense of fun and curiosity” (Minnesota Star-Tribune). The four members of Third Paddle to the Sea (Third Coast Percussion) Coast are also accomplished teachers, and since 2013, have As we set out to score the film Paddle to the Sea, we drew served as ensemble-in-residence at the University of Notre inspiration from the musical material and atmosphere of each Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center. 6 7 A direct connection with the audience is at the core of all created first recordings of commissioned works by Augusta of Third Coast Percussion’s work, whether the musicians are Read Thomas, David T. Little, and Ted Hearne, in addition to speaking from the stage about a new piece of music, inviting the recordings of the ensemble’s own compositions. In 2017 the audience to play along in a concert or educational performance, ensemble won the Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/ or inviting their fans around the world to create new music using Small Ensemble performance for their recording of Steve Reich’s one of their free mobile apps. works for percussion. Third Coast Percussion maintains a busy touring schedule, Third Coast Percussion has always maintained strong with past performances in 32 of the 50 states plus Canada, ties to the vibrant artistic community in their hometown of Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland, and venues ranging Chicago. They have collaborated with Chicago institutions such from concert halls at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and De as Hubbard Street Dance Chicago and the Adler Planetarium, Doelen to clubs and alternative performance spaces such as performed at the grand opening of Maggie Daley Children’s New York’s Le Poisson Rouge and the National Gallery’s West Park, conducted residencies at the University of Chicago, Garden Court. Northwestern University, and the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, created multi-year collaborative projects with Chicago-based The quartet’s curiosity and eclectic taste have led to a series composers Augusta Read Thomas, Glenn Kotche, and chamber of unlikely collaborations that have produced exciting new art. ensemble Eighth Blackbird, and taught tens of thousands The ensemble has worked with engineers at the University of of students through partnerships with Urban Gateways, the Notre Dame, architects at the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, People’s Music School, the Chicago Park District, Rush Hour dancers at Hubbard Street Dance Chicago, and musicians from Concerts, and others. traditions ranging from the mbira music of Zimbabwe’s Shona people, to indie rockers, to some of the world’s leading concert The four members of Third Coast Percussion met while musicians. studying percussion music at Northwestern University. Members of Third Coast also hold degrees from the Eastman School of A commission for a new work from composer Augusta Read Music, Rutgers University, the New England Conservatory, and Thomas in 2012 led to the realization that commissioning new the Yale School of Music. musical works can be—and should be—as collaborative as any other artistic partnership. Through extensive workshopping Stay up-to-date and go behind-the-scenes by following and close contact with composers, Third Coast Percussion Third Coast on Twitter (@ThirdCoastPerc), Facebook (@Third has commissioned and premiered new works from Donnacha Coast Percussion), and Instagram (@ThirdCoastPercussion). Dennehy, Glenn Kotche, Lei Liang, Gavin Bryars, Christopher *Third Coast Percussion is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. Cerrone, Timo Andres, Marcos Balter, Ted Hearne, and today’s leading up-and-coming composers through its Emerging Composers Partnership Program. These works have become Leslie Buxbaum Danzig is delighted to work with Third Coast part of the ensemble’s core repertoire and seen hundreds of Percussion again, after stage directing Wild Sound, composed performances across North America and throughout Europe. by Glenn Kotche. Leslie is a collaborating director with Julia Third Coast Percussion’s recordings include three full-length Rhoads/Lucky Plush Productions, where she co-created the albums, three EPs, and a number of appearances on other dance-theater work Rooming House, which premiered at releases. The quartet has put its stamp on iconic percussion Steppenwolf 1700 Theater in Fall 2017. With Lucky Plush, works by John Cage and Steve Reich, and Third Coast has also she also co-created The Better Half and The Queue, both 8 9 of which received a National Dance Project Award and a NationalWelcome Performance to the Network creation fund award (’12 and Performing Arts 2017–18 ’14).Cleveland Presenting venues Museum include ofMuseum Art of Contemporary Art Chicago; Spoleto Festival USA (SC); CRASHarts at the Institute cma.org/performingarts The Cleveland Museum of Art’s performing arts series #CMAperformingarts ofoffers Contemporary a fascinating Art concert Boston; calendar Dance notableCleveland; for itsFlynn Center for theboundless Performing multiplicity. Arts (VT); This ODC year, (CA); visits and from Maui old Artsfriends and Cultural Chamber Music in the Galleries CIM Organ Studio Wednesday, October 4, 6:00 Sunday, March 11, 2:00 Center.and new For bring over century-spanning a decade, Leslie music was co-founderfrom around and the resident directorglobe, exploring of the Chicago-based cultural connections physical that theater link the company human 500 Butler, Bernstein & the Hot 9 Wu Man & Clown,heart and whose spirit. shows (Macbeth, Frankenstein, Christmas, and Wednesday, October 11, 7:30 Huayin Shadow Puppet Band Wednesday, March 21, 7:30 Elephant Deal) performed in Chicago at venues including Lou Harrison Centennial SteppenwolfIn the Galleries Theatre Company and Lookingglass Theatre, and Friday, October 20, 7:30 Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, April 4, 6:00 touredThe Jazz throughout Age: American the US. Style Other in the directing 1920s credits include Quest Chamber Music in the Galleries Wednesday, November 1, 6:00 Tallis Scholars atThrough the Actors January Gymnasium; 14 Damon Kiely’s The Revel with the Friday, April 13, 7:30 House Theatre; Redmoon’s The Elephant and the Whale with SQÜRL Fashionable Mourners: (Jim Jarmusch & Carter Logan) Chamber Music in the Galleries Chicago Children’s Theater (with Frank Maugeri); Redmoon’s Bronze Statuettes from the Rijksmuseum Wednesday, November 1, 7:30 Wednesday, May 2, 6:00 Hunchback at New Victory Theater (NYC); and Float with Through February 4 Ji Aeri About Face Theater. Prior to turning to directing, Leslie toured Sunday, November 5, 2:00 nationallyHeritage: Wadsworthand internationally and Jae Jarrellas an actor with NYC’s Elevator Through February 25 Chamber Music in the Galleries Repair Service. Leslie received her BA from Brown University Wednesday, December 6, 6:00 andBeyond PhD Angkor:in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, Davide Mariano andCambodian trained inSculpture physical from theater Banteay at Écoles Chhmar Jacques Lecoq and Sunday, January 14, 2:00 PhilippeThrough Gaulier. March 25 She is Assistant Professor of Practice in Theater Chamber Music in the Galleries and Performance Studies, University of Chicago. Wednesday, February 7, 6:00 Rodin—100 Years Third Coast Percussion Through May 13 is pleased to be collaborating with Third Joseph A. Burke Sunday, February 11, 2:00 Coast Percussion on this amazing aural and visual experience. Graphic Discontent: German Expressionism on Paper Mantra Percussion HisThrough artistry May specializes 13 in lighting and projection design, Friday, February 23, 7:30 videography, and content creation. Joseph’s work has been seen William Morris: Designing an Earthly Paradise Oberlin Contemporary at: Case Western Reserve University, Chamber Opera Chicago, Through November 11 Music Ensemble Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Cleveland’s PlayhouseSquare, Sunday, March 4, 2:00 Cleveland Public Theatre, Imagine Exhibitions Incorporated, Chamber Music in the Galleries Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Northwestern University, Wednesday, March 7, 6:00 the House Theatre of Chicago, the Poetry Foundation, Travesty DancePlease Group,turn off Steppenwolf all electronic Theatre devices Company, before entering and Writers’ Theatre.the performance hall.

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