Eighth Blackbird
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Biography
Eighth Blackbird is an American contemporary classical music sextet founded in 1996 at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Named after a stanza from Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird, the ensemble won the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition that same year. Their debut album, Forbidden Love (2003), was followed by albums including Thirteen Ways (2003) and Strange Imaginary Animals (2006). The group has won six Grammy Awards for recordings, including Strange Imaginary Animals and Lonely Motel: Music from Slide (2009). Other albums include Meanwhile (2011) and Filament (2015). Eighth Blackbird has collaborated with composers such as Steve Reich and Stephen Hartke.
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- Thirteen Ways: IV. Sensuous, relaxed
- Thirteen Ways: III. Nimble, capricious
- Petroushskates
- Critical Moments 2, for ensemble~V.
- Double Sextet: II. Slow
- Double Sextet: I. Fast
- Double Sextet: III. Fast
- Critical Moments 2: VII. Quarter note = 44
- Critical Moments 2: VIII. Quarter note = 63
- XIII. Serene
- Critical Moments 2: VI. Dotted quarter note = 112
- Critical Moments 2: IX. Dotted eighth note = 126
- Thirteen Ways: VI. Subdued, But Urgently
- XI. Driving, relentless
- XII. Seamless, expansive
- IX. Spacious, detached
- X. orotund, discordant
- Omie Wise
- Critical Moments 2: IV. Eighth note = 112
- Critical Moments 2: II. Quarter note: 104
- Critical Moments 2: III. Eighth note = 88
- Thirteen Ways: VIII. Steady, rhythmic
- Thirteen Ways: VII. Exuberant, but increasingly stodgy
- Thirteen Ways: I. Leaden, Bleak
