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Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre
Located in the rear of the Michigan League Building
on the corner of N. University and Fletcher St.
734-763-3333

eighth blackbird’s kinetic program, The Only Moving Thing, presents the ensemble at its most vivid and theatrical as it dives full-tilt into the agile and muscular worlds 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 Music for 18 Musicians and Drumming. Pulsing with energy and life, the work will feature eighth blackbird performing live and pre-recorded simultaneously.

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.This concert is the culmination of a 12-day residency at the U-M School of Music, Theatre & Dance.

Program

Reich : Double Sextet (2007)
Lang/Gordon/Wolfe : singing in the dead of night (UMS Co-Commission) (2007)