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Music: Classical eighth blackbird: The Only Moving Thing

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Brainy avant chamber music ensemble eighth blackbird is named after the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens' "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird" ("lush, inescapable rhythms") — an apt description for this program that includes a collaboration with minimalist-beat junkie Steve Reich. The group's double-feature, The Only Moving Thing, includes Reich's Double Sextet, in which the musicians perform against pre-recorded audio of themselves, and singing in the dead of night (as in Paul McCartney's "Blackbird"), a collaboration between Bang on a Can and choreographer Susan Marshall. Marshall's subtle, easy musicality and populist dance vocabulary allows the performers to look as comfortable in movement as they are with their instruments.

– Zachary Whittenburg

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