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eighth blackbird has been stunning critics and converting audiences all
over the world with their unique and captivating performances of new
music. Now the local ensemble presents their first series of
performances in Chicago, offering you the opportunity to see what the
world is already raving about.
Boeing is the Lead Corporate Contributor of the 2007-2008 eighth blackbird series.
Download a Harris Theater series order form (PDF format)
or call the Harris Theater box office at (312) 334-7777.
To purchase a subscription online, login here and enter the following promotion code: 8bb75. Click
on "Buy Tickets" for each of the three eighth blackbird performances,
choose the 8bb75 price of $25, then click "Add to Shopping Cart". You
will have to do this for each of the three shows, but you can pay for
the subscription in one transaction. At the end of the process you
should have the three performances in your shopping cart, each for $25
(plus a handling fee of $2 per ticket). Their total for the
subscription is $81.
You can buy single tickets here
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Sound Mirror
Tuesday, October 23, 7:30 pm Chicago Tribune Review…
Muskal/Rozin/Yaish - Mirrors
Bresnick - My Twentieth Century
de Mey - Musique de Tables
Rzewski - Pocket Symphony
In Mirrors, eighth blackbird partners with Tamar Muskal and interactive digital artist Danny Rozin to create a world of constantly transformed sound and digital reflections where imagery becomes the seventh performer. The program is highlighted by Martin Bresnick’s poignantly reflective My Twentieth Century, arranged by the composer expressly for eighth blackbird, as well as Thierry de Mey’s stunning visual ballet for the hands, Musique de Tables, and Frederic Rzewski’s modern masterpiece for eighth blackbird, Pocket Symphony.
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strange imaginary remix
Saturday, January 26, 7:30 pm
DeSantis - strange imaginary remix
DeSantis - Powerless
Gordon - Friction Systems
Fitzell - evanescence
Mackey - Indigenous Instruments
Radiohead (arr. Colnot) - Dollars and Cents Ever inventive and boundless in its exploration of music, eighth
blackbird collaborates with DJ Dennis DeSantis on strange imaginary
remix, a live remix of pieces from the ensemble’s most recent album,
strange imaginary animals. The concert will also feature DeSantis’
muscular, metronomic Powerless, David M. Gordon’s hard-hitting,
industrial Friction Systems alongside Gordon Fitzell’s atmospheric
evanescence and Steve Mackey’s rock-influenced Indigenous Instruments.
An arrangement of Radiohead’s Dollar and Cents by Chicago's Cliff
Colnot round out this amplified, gutsy set.
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The Only Moving Thing
Thursday
, May 29, 7:30 pm
Click here to learn more about the post-concert Gala Reception! Reich - Double Sextet
Lang/Gordon/Wolfe - singing in the dead of night The Only Moving Thing, eighth blackbird's kinetic program featuring al
newly commissioned works, crackles with vivid theatricality as the
ensemble dives full-tilt into the agile and muscular world of five of
today’s most prominent names in music and dance. Double Sextet, a new
Steve Reich work for eighth blackbird, represents a return to the
rhythmic intensity and drive that is synonymous with the composer's
most venerable works such as Drumming and Music for 18 Musicians.
Pulsing with energy and life, the work will feature eighth blackbird
performing simultaneously live and pre-recorded. Inspired by eighth
blackbird's distinctive predilection for memorization and the
embodiment of their music through movement, singing in the dead of
night is a continuous weave of music and motion; an intrepid
collaboration between maverick composers David Lang, Michael Gordon and
Julia Wolfe and seminal New York choreographer Susan Marshall.
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