10 December 2005
Best of 2005
Detroit Free Press
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Something for everyone
For the adventurous soul interested in where classical music is going: Eighth Blackbird, "Fred: the Music of Frederic Rzewski" (Cedille). The new music ensemble Eighth Blackbird is helping reinvent chamber music along a post-classical model, partly by recording discs like this one. It's devoted to an indispensable American eclectic whose music runs the gamut from minimalism to post-modernism to politically inspired. MS
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