By John von Rhein

Breaking sound barriers: Hip eighth blackbird unleashes its energy

Eighth blackbird may spell its name lowercase, but it is without a doubt an uppercase ensemble.  

By L. Peat O'Neil

The opening lines of the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," from which the sextet Eighth Blackbird takes its name, states the group's aim and sums up its achievement at Tuesday night's Founders Day Concert at the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium.

By Anthony Tommasini

Young Writers and Players

Bringing composers and performers together is clearly a priority at the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival, run by the Yale Summer School of Music in this bucolic town in northwestern Connecticut.