eighth blackbird
Eighth Blackbird is an American contemporary music sextet based in Chicago, composed of flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello. Their name derives from the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird.
Albums
- composition as explanation (2024)
- Singing in the Dead of Night (2020)
- When We Are Inhuman (2019)
- Olagón: A Cantata in Doublespeak (2017)
- Hand Eye (2016)
- Filament (2015)
- Meanwhile (2012)
- Lonely Motel: Music from Slide (2011)
- Higdon: On a Wire / Gandolfi: Q.E.D.: Engaging Richard Feynman (2011)
- Double Sextet / 2x5 (2010)
- Stephen Vitiello with eighth blackbird (2008)
- strange imaginary animals (2006)
- The Time Gallery / Protean Fantasy / Ariel Fantasy (2006)
- fred (2005)
- Beginnings (2004)
- thirteen ways (2003)
- Round Nut Tool (1999)