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Music for Pieces of Wood
Steve Reich has been named “among the great composers of the century” (The New York Times).”the most original musical thinker of our time” (The New Yorker), and “America’s greatest living composer” (Village Voice). Starting in the 1960s, his pieces Come Out, Drumming,...
Tasting Notes at Wasserman Projects
Friday, June 13 | 7 PM Click for Tickets 20 Years of Impact and Resonance Since 2005, Third Coast Percussion has forged a unique path in the musical landscape with virtuosic, energetic performances that celebrate the extraordinary depth and breadth of musical...
Closing Night: Wireworks
Saturday, June 21; 7:00PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — Tonight—our last night—I want to linger with the presence that has so patiently haunted these last two weeks. Ruth Adler Schnee was a marvel, an inventor of patterns who wielded her pen with a freedom and...
Festival in Residence: Ann Arbor
Friday, June 20; 7:30PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — Tonight I want to dwell upon a decorative element of architecture, ornamental and so not strictly necessary (what art is?) and yet foundational to how we might hear this program. Among sculpture’s oldest techniques...
Festival in Residence: Windsor
Thursday, June 19; 7:00PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — I want to return to Vitruvius, whose treatise De architectura began this journey nearly two weeks ago. In the opening week we looked at two of the three arenas of design identified by the Roman architect; tonight...
Strata Echo
Tuesday, June 17; 7:00 PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — Tonight we return to that most fundamental of musical and architectural materials, the formal device par excellence: we return to lines. And we return to lines by way of the woman whose visual imagination and...
Negative Space
Sunday, June 15; 2:00PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — The most fundamental principle of design and form: an attention not to what is there but to what is not. Music is often colloquially understood (though there’s something much deeper behind the impulse) as an art of...
Festival in Residence: Ann Arbor
Friday, June 13; 7:30PM Click for Tickets © Ty Bouque — Tomorrow’s is the program titled Cornerstone, but tonight is the closest to a linchpin. The three composers on offer tonight are ferociously canon-bound, all, by different means but with no less sincerity,...
Textures
Thursday, June 12; 7:00 PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — Texture is about the particular way things feel; etymology, then, might be thought of as a kind of exercise in historical textures, the way sounds accrue intuitive feeling in the fabric knit by language and the...
Shouse Soundscapes
Wednesday June 11; 7:00 P.M. Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — In our opening concert, we covered the first of Vitruvius’s three arenas of architectural design. The first, ichnography, the art of the blueprint, lends this year’s festival its thrust. Tonight we turn to the...
Sound Beams
Tuesday, June 10; 7:00 PM Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — A tension: truss means two things, torn by competing forces. The architectural definition has, from the seventeenth century on, signaled a form of beaming, most often wooden, used to brace bridges or buildings....
Opening Night: Latticework
Sunday, June 8; 5:00 P.M. Seligman Performing Arts Center Click for Tickets Ty Bouque — There is a rare little word for all this. Its coinage lies buried in a dense architectural treatise (the first of its kind, really), drafted at the behest of Caesar Augustus. In...
Cornerstone
Saturday, June 14; 7:00PM at St. Hugo of the Hills Click for Tickets ©Ty Bouque — There is a reverence verging on mania endowed upon the cornerstone. Its sacred affection has nothing to do with its structural support or the quality of materials or even its scale. It...
2025 SEASON: BLUEPRINTS IN SOUND
Two Weeks of World-Class Performances Inspired by the Intersection of Music, Design, and Architecture SOUTHFIELD, MI — The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival proudly announces its highly anticipated 2025 season, Blueprints in Sound, running from June 8 to June 21,...
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