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Friday, December 22, 2006 |
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By David Weininger, Globe Correspondent
Ambitious aims, skillful execution made 2006 sing
Speaking of contemporary music, it was hard to believe that eighth blackbird
has been around for a decade, but the sextet came to Harvard's Sanders
Theatre in March with a 10th-anniversary program, courtesy of Bank of
America Celebrity Series. |
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Friday, December 22, 2006 |
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By Steve Langendorf
Critics' Picks 2006 |
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Monday, December 4, 2006 |
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By Michael Markowitz
Classical CD Highlights: December
Cedille Records, an enterprising non-profit label based in Chicago,
has a few interesting new releases. On one disc, titled Strange Imaginary
Animals, the electrifying new-music sextet eighth blackbird performs
a selection of world premieres… |
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Monday, December 4, 2006 |
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By Peter Grahame Woolf
This CD of innovative new music by a Chicago-based group which had brought
us fine accounts of Rzewski's
Fred (Pocket Symphony, Les Moutons de Panurge & Coming
Together) is a delight.
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reviews of fred
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 |
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The Want List 2006 — William Zagorski Fanfare Magazine
November/December 2006
The six-person ensemble, Eighth Blackbird, masterfully realizes
three of Frederic Rzewski’s works. |
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Monday, May 1, 2006 |
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By Ethan Iverson
On fred, three Fredric Rzweski chamber compositions get persuasive performances
by the Chicago group eighth blackbird. “Les Moutons de Parnurge” (1969)
is a game piece. The score is simply a 65-note unison melody, which is
for any number of players playing any kind of instrument. The directions
are this: play the first note, play the first two notes, play the first
three notes, and so on until you reach all 65, at which point you start
subtracting a note each time you go through. |
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