Date/Time
Mar 24, 2012 - 7:30 PM
Location
MCA Stage, Museum of Contemporary Art
Categories
The acclaimed Chicago-based chamber music ensemble returns to the MCA Stage for two concerts presented with the MCA exhibition, the language of less (then and now) that feature contemporary visual art with themes of minimalism. Both concerts feature music by esteemed older composers as well as talented younger composers.
Here eighth blackbird gives you more of everything: more notes, more complicated rhythms, more wild humor, more bang for your buck! Kurt Rohde’s work this bag is not a toy is a dense hive of aggressive notes that pushes this virtuoso group to its limit, while Mantovani’s new work for eighth blackbird unleashes an array of instrumental colors. Eclectic music by renowned young 30-somethings round out the program. Swedish composer Fabian Svensson enacts a thrillingly intense, virtuosic face-off between the “two sides” of eighth blackbird, and American Amy Kirsten’s Pirouette for speaking and singing flutist is “a bravura show of hissing, gibbering, urgent recitation and lines sung at high and low extremes.”
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