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Concert is part of the Williams Center for the Arts 25th anniversary season
Grammy-winning sextet eighth blackbird will hold the first performance in this year’s Chamber Music series 8 p.m. Friday, Sept. 12 in the Williams Center for the Arts.
Tickets are free for Lafayette students, $6 for students at LVAIC schools, $4 for faculty and staff, and $18 for the public. They can be obtained by calling the Williams Center box office at (610) 330-5009.
Other performances in this year’s Chamber Music series are the Guarneri String Quartet, Oct. 11, $25; Jeremy Denk, Nov. 6, $15; the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Dec. 2, $25; and three appearances of the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with special guests Anoushka Shankar on Jan. 29, $33, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg on March 23, $29, and soprano Susan Graham on May 9, $29. A subscription to the six-event series package (Anoushka Shankar is a non-subscription event) costs $125, a savings of 12 percent off the single ticket price, which is available through Sept. 12.
Described by The New Yorker as “friendly, unpretentious, idealistic, and highly skilled,” eighth blackbird promises a provocative, innovative, and engaging performance. They return to the Williams Center to perform their new two-part commission, The Only Moving Thing. Part one, Steve Reich’s Double Sextet, features the interplay of live performance and pre-recorded sound, with virtuosic rhythmic patterns and joyous, dance-like melodies. Part two, singing in the dead of the night, by the Bang on a Can All-Stars composer collective of David Lang, Julia Wolfe, and David Gordon, is vividly theatrical, with stage movement choreographed by Susan Marshall.
The 2008–2009 Performance Series at Lafayette College is supported in part by gifts from Friends of the Williams Center for the Arts; by provisions of the Josephine Chidey Williams Endowment, the J. Mahlon and Grace Buck Fund, the Croasdale Fund, the Class of ’73 Fund, the Alan and Wendy Pesky Artist-in-Residence Program, the James Bradley Fund, and the Ed Brunswick Jazz Fund; and by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Dexter and Dorothy Baker Foundation, and New England Foundation for the Arts. Special thanks to the F.M. Kirby Foundation for extraordinary support of the 25th anniversary season, and to Joan Moran and the Amaranth Foundation for support of the Ravi Shankar commission.