Boston Modern Orchestra Project convenes a congress of noise at Jordan Hall Nov 16, 2009
Visually speaking, the most memorable sight was witnessing that octet of Yamaha pianos playing themselves, a kind of depopulated orchestra eerily appropriate for a work written in the wake of the First World War. In an inspired pairing, Ballet M. (Boston Globe)
SCITUATE AROUND TOWN: The giving season has begun Nov 6, 2009
This is an interactive program for children ages 5 and up and their families, with conductor Jin Kim and an octet of musicians. All tickets are $3 and are available at the door. (Scituate Mariner, MA)
SVA - November/December Exhibitions Oct 30, 2009
"Octet: Codes and Contexts in Recent Art". An exhibition of over 100 works by faculty, alumni and students from the BFA Fine Arts Department, offering a wide-ranging survey of current trends and issues in contemporary art. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Sends an Artist to Switzerland! PLUS Hamlet, BAM, and Trixie Little on Halloween! Oct 29, 2009
In October, Brad Wells will lead the vocal octet Roomful of Teeth in their New York debut, performing works by New Amsterdam co-director Judd Greenstein and Pulitzer-Prize finalist Rinde Eckert, among others. Formed in 2008 and coming off a recent residency at Mass MoCA, the group embraces the full spectrum of vocal practices and, through an on-going commissioning project, develops new compositions for voices. (AbsoluteArts.com)
Arts and Entertainment Oct 20, 2009
While named after the Dutch city famous for Rembrandt and canals, the Amsterdam Cello Octet is unique as one of the world's few cello octets. For their St.. (The Current Online, MO)
Time to Go Wheels-Up For 'The Good Place' Sep 17, 2009
One evening we had a compelling conversation with an octet of owls tuning up for a sylvan serenade. Against a picture of a family sitting around a twilight campfire, one of the insurance companies has an ad that reads (with but a marginal insurance message): "After planning a vacation without TV, it's the entertainment you find instead." Up there without TV -- beyond cities that have become human sinks, beyond sprawl, beyond even the clutter of recreational housing -- little happens. (Townhall.com)
Red Rocks Music Festival Aug 25, 2009
And, in a nod to the bicentennial of Mendelssohn's birth, there will be two performances of his magnificent Octet in E-flat Major, written when he was 16. The event begins with a performance by the Mack sisters at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 30, in Sedona, and winds up with the Russell Schmidt Trio appearing with festival musicians at 3 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 6, also in Sedona. (AZCentral -- Travel)
Carleen Hutchins; devised new system to make violins, 98 Aug 15, 2009
In the process, she designed and built an entire family of violins, eight instruments proportional in size and pitch known collectively as the new violin family or the violin octet ... From 2002 to 2003, Mrs. Hutchins s octet was the subject of an exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York ... Mrs. Hutchins, who began her professional life as a high school science teacher, was a respected maker of conventional violins and violas before she began work on the octet in the late 1950s.... (Boston Globe)
Daily TV guide Aug 4, 2009
5) Octet in E-flat, with Hausmusik. NEWS & TALK SHOWS Morning Early Show at 7 a.m. on Chs. (Boston Globe)
Connecticut's 'Icebox,' Norfolk, Sure Heats Up in the Summer Jul 31, 2009
Listening to the call and response of violin and cello floating with an impossible lightness over the second violin's murmuring during Mendelssohn's Octet for Strings in E-flat Major in Ms. Battell's brilliantly envisioned Music Shed, it is easy to see Ms. Ball's point. "Yeah, there is a difference," Peter Hume nodded, referring to the change in Norfolk over the summer. (Litchfield County Times, CT)
LETTER: It's amazing to see letters critical of Obama Jun 5, 2009
where's that Ip octet you were gonna caught up on here, huh, Judge Judy. " father bob wrote on Jun 2, 2009 4:43 PM:" jukbx wrote on Jun 2, 2009 3:48 PM:"As a man you could never truly understand the long term effects of abortion, no matter what the reason. """"". (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
The big list of festivals Feb 20, 2009
Celebrate Mendelssohn's birthday by listening to some of his works played live by the Mendelssohn Octet ... Celebrate Mendelssohn's birthday by listening to some of his works played live by the Mendelssohn Octet. (AZCentral -- Entertainment)
Yahoo to Allow Users to Opt Out of Custom Ads Feb 8, 2009
After 18 months, Google will "obfuscate both the last octet of the IP address and the full unique cookie ID, which, in some cases, can be used in association with other information to identify an individual," Davidson concluded. The company has three different services that serve up ads, including aol. (Yahoo News -- Internet and WWW)
Last Balanchine dancer bowing out Feb 8, 2009
Paul Kolnik/New York City Ballet Darci Kistler in the New York City Ballet production of Peter Martins' "Octet," 2004. Text Size. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
