The Detroit vocalist and Grammy-winning Chicago sextet have turned musical kinship into a Feb. 13th Chicago concert about love. Shara Nova has one of those voices you recognize right away. Whether ...

Try this at home: Take four of your favorite albums of chamber music, put them all in your CD player and hit the random shuffle button. You'll have approximated the effect of Wednesday night's ...

Pre-existing plans preclude me from seeing it, but I suspect tonight’s Glenn Kotche/Eighth Blackbird show at the Harris Theater tonight will be excellent. The latter is wonderful live–they exude a joy ...

These are some of the "Top Ten Reasons to Compose" given by Mayke Nas, a young Dutch composer whose "DiGiT #2" (2002-3) was among the works offered Wednesday evening by eighth blackbird, the ...

Renowned singer and actor Will Oldham, aka Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, University of Richmond ensemble-in-residence Eighth Blackbird and Bryce Dessner will release a collaborative album, “When We Are ...

On the heels of their 2012 Grammy Award for the recording of Steve Mackey’s Lonely Motel: Music from Slide, new music ensemble eighth blackbird returns to Texas Performing Arts for ten days of ...

The word “new” in new music implies a lack of regard for convention, and eighth blackbird -- lowercase and all -- takes the implication seriously. For this Chicago-based sextet, gaining career ...

Ensemble Pamplemousse, Raanna Jedaku Hearing this New York composers’ collective perform its own works this summer brought its experimental aesthetic to life for me—in its music, the absurd dances ...

When most people think of the Grammys, they think of the famous award show or one of the coastal cities like Los Angeles or New York. But the Recording Academy, the voting block of musicians, ...

Captivating from start to finish, the performance demonstrated why the Chicago-based new music ensemble is regarded as one of the world’s finest. Wandering onstage in street wear — denim, leather and ...

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