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Wednesday, August 12, 2009|0 CommentsDaily Telegraph: Five Stars for Benefit Concert with Wilco's Glenn Kotche, John Stirratt
Wilco's Glenn Kotche and John Stirratt joined Neil Finn and members of Radiohead for an Oxfam benefit concert at Dingwalls in London last night; the Daily Telegraph gives it a perfect five stars. It stemmed from Finn's new 7 Worlds Collide album, on which Wilco performs. Kotche recently spoke with LiveDaily about the new Wilco album; the Lexington Herald-Leader picks the track "You Never Know" as a song that will forever conjure the summer of 2009.
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Thursday, March 5, 2009NY Times: Steve Reich Gives "Supple Account" of His Revolutionary Work
Steve Reich & Musicians' performance capped off a marathon concert at Lincoln Center's newly renovated Alice Tully Hall Tuesday night for the Hall's Opening Nights Festival. Starting the concert off was Alarm Will Sound, followed by Bang on a Can All-Stars with Glenn Kotche, whose Mobile the New York Times describes as a "bright-edged, vigorously syncopated" piece. The Times says Reich and his ensemble gave "a supple account" of the composer's Music for 18 Musicians, "a pivotal work in Mr. Reich’s canon and a score that helps define the boundary between Minimalism and post-Minimalism."
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009Steve Reich, Glenn Kotche Perform at Alice Tully Hall Opening Festival Tonight
Steve Reich, Glenn Kotche and Bang on a Can All-Stars, and Alarm Will Sound help celebrate the opening of Lincoln Center's spectacularly revamped Alice Tully Hall Starr Theater with a marathon evening of performances titled New York, New Music, New Hall tonight. Kotche and Bang on a Can give the New York premiere of his piece Mobile, and Steve Reich & Musicians with Synergy Vocals perform Reich's Music for 18 Musicians. It's all part of the Center's two-week Opening Nights Festival to inaugurate the new space.
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Thursday, November 20, 2008Chicago Sun-Times: Glenn Kotche, eighth blackbird Concert Offers "Fierce" Performance from "Kindred Musical Souls"
"Glenn Kotche is not your average rock-and-roll percussionist," says the Chicago Sun-Times in its review of Glenn's joint concert on Tuesday with new-music ensemble eighth blackbird at Chicago's Harris Theater. The paper calls the performers "kindred musical souls," mild in temperament, perhaps, but "as fierce as any garage band or chamber players hurtling through a late Beethoven string quartet." Chicagoist's editors faced a conundrum in deciding how to spend their Tuesday night but "realized just how foolish we would be to pass up" what was "a stellar performance" with "a jaw dropping solo rendition of 'Monkey Chant' by Kotche" and, ultimately, "a truly remarkable evening."
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Tuesday, September 2, 2008Chicago Sun-Times: Kotche-Kronos Pairing, "A Collaboration Waiting to Happen," at Ravinia Wednesday
Glenn Kotche joins Kronos Quartet at the Ravinia Festival's Martin Theatre in Highland Park Wednesday night for the Chicago premiere of Anomaly, a piece he wrote for the Quartet. Also included on the program from Kronos are a number of Chicago premieres, including that of John Adams's Fellow Traveler. The Chicago Sun-Times recommends the event, calling the Kotche-Kronos pairing "a collaboration waiting to happen," given the group's ever-adventurous search for new works outside the typical string-quartet mold and the drummer's own diverse musical interests.
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Boston Globe: Kronos Quartet Founder's "Musical Curiosity Remains Undimmed"
Kronos Quartet returns to Tanglewood this Thursday, coincidentally just two days after label mates Wilco. Highlights of the program include works by Sigur Rós, John Zorn, and Steve Reich. The Boston Globe's David Weininger spoke with Kronos's David Harrington about the Quartet's vital role in the creation of new music and asserts: "They essentially created their own avant-garde." Weininger concludes: "Harrington's musical curiosity remains undimmed after 35 years."
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Wednesday, May 14, 2008
Wilco Rocks the Streets of Lawrence, Kansas
Wilco fans took to the streets last night for the first outdoor concert held on the corner of Ninth and New Hampshire Streets in Lawrence, Kansas, which locals hope will be the first of many such events, according to the Lawrence Journal-World & News. A portion of the proceeds from the concert concessions will go to support the Lawrence Arts Center, which sits just next to the site.
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Steve Reich, Glenn Kotche to Perform at Alice Tully Hall's 2009 Re-Opening
Steve Reich and Glenn Kotche will be among the artists celebrating the unveiling of the re-imagined Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York during the two-week Opening Nights Festival, February 22 through March 8, 2009. On March 3, each will take part in New York, New Music, New Hall, a marathon event of new and seminal works.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Glenn Kotche Unveils New Works at UNC with Bang on a Can
Glenn Kotche and Sonic Youth guitarist Lee Ranaldo joined the Bang on a Can All-Stars this past Saturday at the University of North Carolina's Memorial Hall in Chapel Hill for a marathon performance that featured new works by Glenn.
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Thursday, April 3, 2008
Glenn Kotche Guest DJs on WOXY
Tune in now to WOXY.com to listen to a live, guest-DJ set from Glenn Kotche. He's in Cincinnati, Ohio, to perform tonight at the MusicNOW festival, organized by Bryce Dessner of The National. He'll perform with Dessner and Bang on a Can for a concert with Dirty Projectors at Memorial Hall beginning 8 PM.