Category Archives: News

Orange County reviews

Two reviews of our Orange County Performing Arts Center performance of The Only Moving Thing have appeared, in the Los Angeles Times and Orange County Register.
Mark Swed wrote this positive review in the Los Angeles Times:
[T]he new [Reich] score … is the kind of explosion of fractured rhythms that never ceases to amaze the ear [...]

San Francisco reviews

Two reviews of our San Francisco performance of The Only Moving Thing have so far appeared, in the San Francisco Chronicle (SF’s main daily) and the San Francisco Classical Voice (an important new classical music review website).
The Chronicle sent their classical music critic, Joshua Kosman, who wrote this very mixed review of our performance. Here [...]

UMS reviews

Two very positive reviews of our two back-to-back University Musical Society performances in Ann Arbor MI on Thursday night have appeared.
Mark Stryker writes in the Detroit Free Press (that city’s daily newspaper):
It’s been a thrill for metro Detroiters to watch Eighth Blackbird grow into a leading new music ensemble, because we’ve known about the [...]