MUSIC

From: The Washington Post | Date: November 1, 2001 | Copyright information

" -- I know noble accents/And lucid, inescapable rhythms -- "

The opening lines of the eighth stanza of Wallace Stevens's poem "Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird," from which the sextet Eighth Blackbird takes its name, states the group's aim and sums up its achievement at Tuesday night's Founders Day Concert at the Library of Congress's Coolidge Auditorium.

These six individuals, true to their instruments and quirky personal inflection, have honed their ensemble skills to ...

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