Modlin Center for the Arts presents eighth blackbird with Blair Thomas and Co. and Lucy Shelton

February 8, 2005

An ensemble of strings, winds, percussion and piano, eighth blackbird concerts are characterized by vitality, astounding versatility and unconventionality. The University of Richmond's ensemble-in-residence presents just such a concert on February 23, 2005, at 7:30 pm in Camp Concert Hall.

For their second Modlin Center performance this season, eighth blackbird is joined in concert by Blair Thomas & Co. Puppet Theater, a chamber puppet company dedicated to puppet-based visual theater work, for a unique performance of Arnold Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire, Op. 21, French poems by Albert Giraud which Schoenberg translated into German and set to music. This program also features soprano Lucy Shelton, a highly acclaimed interpreter of new music.

The Philadelphia Inquirer declares that eighth blackbird, "appears to have coding fit for some future generation of musicians: players with extra fingers, added layers of metrical understanding, and hearing mechanisms that allow understanding of simultaneous differences in pitch."

Tickets are on sale now and available by calling the Modlin Center Box Office at (804) 289-8980 or by visiting the Modlin Center on the Web.