Assad, Third Coast ready to ‘Play!’ at GTMF – JH News&Guide

This weekend at Walk Festival Hall, (Third Coast Percussion) will perform one of the latest pieces written for it, “Play!” by American-Brazilian vocalist-multi-instrumentalist-composer Clarice Assad. Assad will appear in the performances as well, singing, narrating and otherwise vocalizing through the three movements, with the Grand Teton Festival Orchestra led by guest conductor David Danzmayr.

Danzmayr also will lead the orchestra in William Grant Still’s “Darker America” (1927) and Antonin Dvorak’s Symphony No. 9, widely known as his “New World Symphony” (1893).

Third Coast — which in addition to Skidmore features Sean Rogers, Peter Martin and co-founder Robert Dillon — has worked with fellow-Chicagoan Assad before. With Assad and her father, the Brazilian classical guitarist Sergio Assad, they created and recorded the album “Archetypes,” 12 musical portraits of the Hero, the Lover, the Sage and the other Jungian aspects of human psychology, in 2020, garnering a Grammy nomination. (Third Coast won a Grammy for its 2016 album of Steve Reich’s music.)