What an amazing group eighth blackbird is. They really make new music/contemporary classical music/21st-century music/what-have-you...FUN. They consistently bring out the theater in the compositions they play. And while they play very well, you hardly notice how hard they're working - at least I didn't. I was too busy soaking in the composer's vision, made clear by the fine musicianship...
Richard Dyer gives us the low down in today's Boston Globe:
Blackbird Displays Dramatic Flair.
And here are a few photos from Sunday's Sanders performance:
eighth blackbird in flight: (Left to right) Lisa Kaplan, piano; Matt Albert, violin; Nicholas Photinos, cello; Molly Alicia Barth, flutes; Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinets; and Matthew Duvall, percussion (in rear)
Pianist Lisa Kaplan tickles the ivories in camouflage pants
Percussionist Matthew Duvall (left) and Lisa Kaplan (right) introduce the distinctive 65-note pattern around which Frederic Rzewski's Les Moutons de Panurge is built.
(Left to right) Molly Alicia Barth, flutes; Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinets; and Matthew Duvall, percussion
blackbirders horizontal for Gordon Fitzell's Lucid
More Fitzellian Lucidity
More as other reviews become available.
And since we mentioned this performance in an earlier post, here is Dyer's review of Frederic Rzewski's piano recital at Boston Conservatory last night.
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