Third Coast Percussion with Jessie Montgomery at Bing Concert Hall, May 7, 2025

Stanford University Live presents Strum, Strike, Bend: Third Coast Percussion with Jessie Montgomery
Bing Concert Hall
Stanford University, 327 Lasuen St, Stanford, CA 94305-5005 USA
7:30 PM, Wednesday, May 7, 2025

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• Jessie Montgomery (b.1981): New Work for percussion quartet;
• Lou Harrison (1917–2003): Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra; Jessie Montgomery, violin soloist;
• Tigran Hamasyan (b. 1987): New Work for percussion quartet;
• Jlin AKA Jerrilynn Patton (b. 1987)/Philip Glass (b. 1937): Reimagining of Etude No. 6 for percussion quartet.

[7:34 PM] {lights down, greetings & announcements from Laura Evans, performers out}

1. [7:37 PM] [Jlin AKA Jerrilynn Patton](https://www.jlintheinnovator.com/) (b. 1987): Please Be Still, (2025)
   [7:42 PM] {work ends}

[7:43 PM] {Greetings from Sean; gab; introduction of the next work}
[7:45 PM] {Drumhead detuning demo}

1. [7:46 PM] [Jessie Montgomery](https://www.jessiemontgomery.com/) (b.1981): Lady Justice / Black Justice, The Song (2025)
   [7:57 PM] {work ends}

[7:58 PM] {RD gab about Tigran Hamasyan's Sonata for Percussion}

Tigran Hamasyan (b. 1987): Sonata for Percussion

1. [8:01 PM] Memories from Childhood
2. [8:11 PM] Hymn
3. [8:15 PM] 23 for Third Coast Percussion
   [8:24 PM] {set ends}

[8:44 PM] {lights down, performers out}

Jessie Montgomery (b.1981): Suite from In Color (2014)

1. [8:45 PM] Red
2. [8:47 PM] The Poet
3. [8:49 PM] Purple
   [8:52 PM] {work ends}

[8:53 PM] {PM (or DS?) gab about JM and the last work on tonight's program}

Lou Harrison (1917–2003): Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra (1959) featuring Jessie Montgomery, violin

1. [8:56 PM] Allegro, maestoso
2. [9:05 PM] Largo, cantabile
3. [9:13 PM] Allegro, vigoroso, poco presto
   [9:17 PM] {set ends}
   [9:19 PM] {show ends}

Third Coast Percussion

• Sean Connors: percussion;
• Robert Dillon: percussion;
• Peter Martin: piano, keyboards;
• David Skidmore: percussion.

• Jessie Montgomery: violin; others TBD.

Tonight's first set consisted of pieces composed in honor of TCP’s 20th anniversary. Per program notes on the Third Coast Percussion website, Please Be Still is a new work in which composer Jlin remixed a portion of Bach’s Mass in B Minor. Her rework of Bach’s music was then arranged for percussion ensemble by Third Coast Percussion. Jessie Montgomery's Lady Justice was commissioned by the Zell Family Foundation, Carnegie Hall, Hancher Auditorium at the University of Iowa, and Stanford Live, Stanford University. And finally, Tigran Hamasyan's three-movement Sonata for Percussion was commissioned by Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting and the Zell Family Foundation.

Jessie Montgomery's In Color was composed in 2014 for tuba and string quartet. For tonight's concert, we heard three of the five movements, rearranged by TCP. Surprisingly, Montgomery's list of works omits both pieces that appear on tonight's program. Her older site lists the original version ofIn Color and offers an additional brief program note about the piece. You can watch and hear the full thirteen minute suite in an undated performance posted on YouTube by Advent Lutheran Church in NYC.

Music geeks will also appreciate the YouTube score-video of Lou Harrison's Concerto for Violin with Percussion Orchestra. While this piece was originally written for five percussionists, somehow TCP made do with one less.

Tom Jacobs posted a promo article for this show drawn from an interview with Jessie Montgomery at SFCV.

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Program Notes or program notes

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