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Newcity Music: The Great Hall: Lia Kohl Makes Music for Union Station
by David Witter For centuries, visual and musical artists have used the sights and sounds of nature—waterfalls, running streams, birds…
Chicago Tribune: Cellist Lia Kohl finds music in the everyday. She’ll soon take a Union Station rush hour by surprise.
by Hannah Edgar While waiting for a train at Union Station recently, Lia Kohl noticed an unexpected sound echoing delicately…
Chicago Reader: Experimental cellist Lia Kohl submerges her sounds in Union Station’s Great Hall
Her ten-player ensemble, which includes Stewart, Good, clarinetist Jason Stein, saxophonist Gerrit Hatcher, trombonists Riley Leitch and Nick Meryhew, tubaist Beth McDonald, bassist Zach Moore, and cellist Dorothy Carlos, will disperse throughout the station’s Great Hall to play a composition that will enable intentional and inadvertent listeners to experience a onetime juxtaposition of planned and incidental sounds.