This collaboration of Chicago-based artists has its origins, fittingly, from the Ear Taxi Chicago Festival of New Music. This may explain how stories that originate from vastly different cultures across the globe can, at their core, so closely resemble one another.Įxpressing themselves through guitar, voice, piano, and a battery of percussion instruments, the ensemble draws inspiration from these foundational aspects of the human experience, as well as an array of musical traditions, taking the audience on a far-reaching musical journey grounded in familiar stories. In storytelling, an archetype can be a character, a setting, a theme, or it can even be a particular outcome. Archetypes bind all of us together through our shared connection to these fundamental aspects of the human experience. This project explores the universal symbolic archetypes that appear in stories, legends, and myths throughout the world. With Archetypes, the ensemble of guitar, piano, voice, and percussion quartet will take the audience on a global musical journey grounded in familiar stories.įrom Third Coast Percussion, about Archetypes: This concert will explore the universal symbolic archetypes that appear in stories, legends, and myths throughout the world-great floods, creation, paradise, apocalypses-as well as characters that appear in stories across cultures.
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Half of the renowned guitar duo The Assad Brothers, Sérgio Assad, joins his daughter, pianist and composer Clarice Assad, one of the most widely performed Brazilian concert music composers of her generation, and the Grammy-winning percussion ensemble Third Coast Percussion (who made their Series debut on our Stave Sessions lineup) for a unique and fascinating pan-cultural journey.