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29 de may. de 2019 · When Eighth Blackbird asked me in 2016 to propose a project for them that they could perform at the Chicago Arts Club, in conjunction with the Arts Club’s centennial year, I started thinking of other kinds of actions that they might concentrate on, that would transform them.I began to think of what it would be like make a piece that required ...
About Eighth Blackbird. The sextet Eighth Blackbird devotes itself to contemporary music and has commissioned many works from modern composers. The group is notable for the range of its collaborations with other musicians, nonmusical creative artists, and musical institutions. Comprising players of the flute, clarinet, piano, violin, cello, and ...
Lisa is a 2013 recipient of Chicago’s prestigious 3Arts Award, and recently has enjoyed doing some composing and arranging for Eighth Blackbird. She co-produced her first album When We Are Inhuman (released August 2019) with Bryce Dessner which features her arrangements of songs by Will Oldham, aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy.
2 de may. de 2016 · The Chicago new-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird is on a roll. Just after winning its fourth Grammy in February, the group received a MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions; the ...
Groundbreaking new-music sextet Eighth Blackbird, winners of four Grammy Awards for their previous Cedille Records albums, are heard in the world-premiere recording of a collaborative, all-instrumental program of intensely rhythmic works written expressly for the Chicago-based ensemble by the founders of the celebrated Bang on a Can composers collective. Each piece on Singing in the […]
28 de may. de 2019 · Hand Eye. from $15.00. Hand Eye brings together a musical and visual dream team. Multi-Grammy-winning ensemble Eighth Blackbird and Sleeping Giant, superstar composer sextet, unite for an evening-length work fizzing with the alchemy of twelve strong personalities. Hand Eye transports us to a Soul-studded jam session (Ted Hearne), the ...
The name “Eighth Blackbird” derives from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens’s evocative, imagistic poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird: “I know noble accents / And lucid, inescapable rhythms; / But I know, too, / That the blackbird is involved / In what I know.”. Lisa Kaplan is a Steinway Artist.
