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Friday, March 28, 2008 |
Intensely Innovative
Eighth Blackbird Gives Wing to New Works
Six musicians are playing a duet with recorded
versions of themselves. It is like looking into an electronic mirror.
The mirror refracts the rapid, driving beat of piano and marimba; it
adds a reflected gleam to long-held chords of strings and winds. The
players, live and recorded, create layer upon layer of sound, a rich
mille-feuille of music, while pinwheeling light-images create visual
parallels on the wall behind them… |
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Friday, March 28, 2008 |
Versatile eighth blackbird makes music look easyWednesday's
concert "The Only Moving Thing" by University of Richmond resident
sextet eighth blackbird at Camp Concert Hall had a lot more than one
thing moving. Fresh off its first Grammy award, the group showed a versatility that must be seen and heard to be fully appreciated… |
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Thursday, March 27, 2008 |
Review: eighth blackbird "The Only Moving Thing"By Clarke Bustard
Whoever said first impressions are the truest doesn’t know some of my
best friends, and wouldn’t stand a chance of getting to the nub of
"singing in the dead of night," a wildly eventful, 45-minute-long work
by composers David Lang, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe and
choreographer Susan Marshall, given its first performance by eighth
blackbird. |
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Saturday, March 1, 2008 |
Soprano Upshaw, contemporary composition impress at Benaroya Hall
The Seattle Symphony's "Subscriber Extras" can be real gems —
certainly true on Friday night when one of the great singers of our
time intersected with an amazing chamber ensemble and three living
composers. |
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Saturday, March 1, 2008 |
An Ayre of Magic
Dawn
Upshaw flew in with eighth blackbird to sing a concert Saturday night
in Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall. The eighth blackbird sextet and six
equally remarkable players formed the Orquesta Los Pelegrinos, which
joined Upshaw in a stunning performance of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ayre. |
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Saturday, March 1, 2008 |
Seen and Heard International Concert ReviewAmerican soprano Dawn Upshaw's fierce
intelligence and supple voice bring extra layers of depth and
excitement to contemporary music. That was in abundant evidence
Saturday night as she energized Ayre, a song cycle by the Argentinian
composer Osvaldo Golijov, into exuberant existence. With help from the
eclectic Orquestra Los Pelegrinos, the 40-minute performance capped off
a program of highly listenable, ear-bending contemporary music that
included a new piece by Stephen Hartke and George Crumb's
still-haunting 27-year-old evocation of whale song. |
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