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thirteen ways

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  1. 01 Petroushskates 2:01
  2. 02 Critical Moments 2 - 1. Dotted Eighth = 120 0:40
  3. 03 Critical Moments 2 - 2. Quarter = 104 0:38
  4. 04 Critical Moments 2 - 3. Eighth = 88 2:01
  5. 05 Critical Moments 2 - 4. Eighth = 112 0:28
  6. 06 Critical Moments 2 - 5. Quarter = 88 0:43
  7. 07 Critical Moments 2 - 6. Dotted Quarter = 112 0:25
  8. 08 Critical Moments 2 - 7. Quarter = 44 0:45
  9. 09 Critical Moments 2 - 8. Quarter=63 0:33
  10. 10 Critical Moments 2 - 9. Dotted Eighth=126 0:35
  11. 11 Variations 2:01
  12. 12 Thirteen Ways - 1. Leaden, Bleak 1:02
  13. 13 Thirteen Ways - 2. Aloof, Persistent 0:54
  14. 14 Thirteen Ways - 3. Nimble, Capricious 1:17
  15. 15 hirteen Ways - 4. Sensuous, Relaxed 1:51
  16. 16 Thirteen Ways - 5. Freely, Like A Birdsong 0:51
  17. 17 Thirteen Ways - 6. Subdued, But Urgently 1:21
  18. 18 Thirteen Ways - 7. Exuberant, But Increasingly Stodgy 0:59
  19. 19 Thirteen Ways - 8. Steady, Rhythmic 1:17
  20. 20 Thirteen Ways - 9. Spacious, Detached 0:59
  21. 21 Thirteen Ways - 10. Orotund, Discordant 0:57
  22. 22 Thirteen Ways - 11. Driving, Relentless 1:03
  23. 23 Thirteen Ways - 12. Seamless, Expansive 0:57
  24. 24 Thirteen Ways - 13. Serene 0:51

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Description

Thirteen Ways is Eighth Blackbird’s commercial recording debut album on Cedille Records, featuring music by four of America’s most gifted composers:David Schober (b. 1974), Thomas Albert (b. 1948), Joan Tower (b. 1938), and George Perle (b. 1915). Tower’s sparkling Petroushskates is a vibrant homage to Stravinsky; Schober’s elegantly crafted Variations, by turns ethereal and insistent, garnered the 1999 Wayne Peterson Prize from San Francisco State University; Perle’s Critical Moments II, one of the ensemble’s recent commissions, is “remarkably fresh in its spiky crystalline fragments, rapid atonal flurries and muted wisps of sound” (Los Angeles Times); and Albert’s kaleidoscopic Thirteen Ways is as evocative and stimulating as the poem that inspired it.

Additional information

Weight 0.25 lbs
Dimensions 5.6 × 4.9 × .3 in
Performers

Molly Barth, flutes
Michael J. Maccaferri, clarinets
Matt Albert, violin & viola
Nick Photinos, cello
Matthew Duvall, percussion
Lisa Kaplan, piano
Album Details

Total Time: 55:30
Producer and Engineer: Judith Sherman
Assistant Engineer: Hsi-Ling Chang
Editing: Track 1: Bill Maylone
Editing Assistants: Tracks 2-10 Hsi-Ling Chang
Tracks 11-24 Jeanne Velonis
Mastering: Bill Maylone
Recorded:
Track 1: October 3, 2002 Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston, IL
Tracks 2-11: July 15 & 16, 2002
Tracks 12-24: July 13-14, 2002 Recital Hall of the Performing Arts Center, SUNY Purchase, NY.
Front Cover Photograph: © Andy Whale/Stone
Graphic Design: Melanie Germond & Pete Goldlust
Notes: eighth blackbird & the composers

© 2003 Cedille Records/Cedille Chicago

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