Reich / Third Coast Percussion / Friend / Hagen - Third Coast Percussion - Steve Reich [CD]

Third Coast Percussion has been saluted by the Washington Post for it's "virtuosity and precisely timed wit", and was called by the New York Times a "commandingly elegant" ensemble. The group, which is ensemble-in-residence at the University of Notre Dame, teaches and performs a concert series in Chicago, and has commissioned dozens of new works. This album is the ensemble's Cedille label debut, and is an 80th birthday acknowledgement to American composer Steve Reich, the founding father of musical minimalism. This recording features four of Reich's most notable percussion works.