This Saturday at the Walker, Chicago-based musical group eighth blackbird is performing, among other things, Steve Reich’s newest composition Double Sextet. Reich wrote the piece for eighth blackbird and it won the 2009 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
The recording will be released on Nonesuch, but it’s not out yet. For audiences in the Twin Cities, this is your one chance to hear live a landmark piece of music history.
IF you are unaware of Steve Reich’s sublime and perfect music, let me recommend Music for 18 Musicians, Tehilim, and Different Trains as places to start.
eight blackbird will be performing Double Sextet with local music group Zeitgeist, and the evening’s program –The Only Moving Thing – will also feature eighth blackbird performing work originally composed by Bang On a Can All-Stars founders David Lang, Michael Gordon, and Julia Wolfe. eighth blackbird’s shows include choreographic aspects, so expect the shimmering sheets of musical minimalism to be even less static than usual.