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This finale concert of the 2024 season of the University of Michigan Symphony Band is filled with special moments. We welcome world renowned contemporary sextet Eighth Blackbird to perform Viet Cuong's dynamic and inspiring Vital Sines, which was composed for the ensemble.
- Eighth Blackbird at University of Michigan — Eighth Blackbird
This finale concert of the 2024 season of the University of...
- Eighth Blackbird at University of Michigan — Eighth Blackbird
Apr 12, 2024 · This finale concert of the 2024 season of the University of Michigan Symphony Band is filled with special moments. We welcome world renowned contemporary sextet Eighth Blackbird to perform Viet Cuong's dynamic and inspiring Vital Sines, which was composed for the ensemble.
Eighth Blackbird (stylized as eighth blackbird until April 2016) is an American contemporary music sextet based in Chicago, composed of flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello (Pierrot ensemble with percussion). Their name derives from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
Apr 12, 2024 · April 12, 2024 | 8:00 pm. Hill Auditorium. 825 N University Ave. Ann Arbor, MI 48109. Free - no tickets required. Livestream Link. View Program. This finale concert of the 2024 season of the University of Michigan Symphony Band is filled with special moments. We welcome world renowned contemporary sextet Eighth Blackbird to perform Viet Cuong ...
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.” Eighth Blackbird is managed by Epstein Fox Performances LLC.
Apr 11, 2024 · Eighth Blackbird, “a brand-name defined by adventure, vibrancy and quality” (Detroit Free Press) and hailed as “one of the smartest, most dynamic ensembles on the planet” (Chicago Tribune), was founded in 1996 and continues today under the leadership of collaborative directors Lisa Kaplan and Matthew Duvall.
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Apr 12, 2024 · This finale concert of the 2024 season of the University of Michigan Symphony Band is filled with special moments. We welcome world renowned contemporary sextet Eighth Blackbird to perform Viet Cuong's dynamic and inspiring Vital Sines, which was composed for the ensemble. The concert will conclude with a 90th birthday tribute to Director of ...