eighth blackbird

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Classics Series #4
Saturday, January 15, 2011 at 8 PM
The University of Akron’s E.J. Thomas Hall

Christopher Wilkins, conductor
eighth blackbird, guest ensemble
Alan Bodman, violin

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“2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon’s On a Wire features the most influential chamber ensemble of our time. In the 60’s it was Tashi; in the 80’s it was Kronos Quartet. In our own time, it is eighth blackbird. The Wallace Stevens poem that inspired their name – Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird – also gives rise to this pastoral and mystical program.”
~ Maestro Christopher Wilkins

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