Wow, what a great week! Deborah's Place had a fabulous final performance, Seward students wowed Ravinia administration, and NBJ had one of the best single visits we've ever had! Not only that, but we have a ton of things to look forward to for next week!
Read MoreWe've got some real exciting changes coming to Fifth House Ensemble very soon! We've got the first of our Spring residency final performances this week!. Can you believe that Fresh Inc. is only a few weeks away??? The Augmented Fifth will be changing formats soon and we can't wait to bring you even more great content as we head into our festival weeks!
Read MoreWell, here we are! Today marks the last of our artistic performances for the 2018 season. But don't you worry your pretty little head, there will be plenty of opportunities to see Fifth House Ensemble before the end of the season with our multitude of educational shows happening within the coming month!
Read MoreI think we have all recovered from our performance-a-thon last week and we are all set and ready to do it again! For those of you who missed Degenerate Art last week, we sincerely hope to see you at our show this week!
Read MoreAnd you thought that a concert day would keep me from writing the blog. Shame on you! I know some of you missed Degenerate Art today, but don't fret! We will be certain to see you when we perform it again on April 29. Right? Right.
Read MoreWhat's that? You say that we can't possibly have the time to perform three shows at once? Well that's where you're wrong, bucko! We've got some old and some new this week so feel free to bring something blue for us to borrow when you come see our shows this week!
Read MoreAfter a week off and some time to clear our heads, we're excited to announce that we will be renaming Fifth House Ensemble to eighth JACK Bang On A Can Will Sound Ensemble. We feel it really embodies the totally original chamber music group we would like to be. Wishing you a happy Easter and April 1st from eJBOACWSE!
Read MoreHey everyone! It's Spring Break! Get ready for a vacation-tastic edition of the Augmented Fifth!
Read MoreCan you believe we've been at this for 20 weeks?? Time sure flies when you're frantically trying to keep up with telling you all about Fifth House events while also consistently collecting stupid videos and memes. Don't worry though, we're not getting tired in the slightest and are looking forward to bringing you weeks and weeks of more content!
Read MoreWe were so thrilled to have Jason Vieaux back for what was a marvelous performance of our Living Language show at Ravinia on Saturday night. At the very least, it was nice to have someone to share the large pot of coffee Grace made to keep everyone awake for our 8:30pm start time.
Read More....hey. Um, yeah, so, it's been a week. Let's um, talk about next week instead, k? Cool thanks.
Read MoreAnother week, another Journey LIVE show. We're still here in San Francisco and I'd be lying if I said I'm not writing this in my hotel bed waiting for Eric to wake up. Sad to be leaving such a great city so soon but I made sure to bury a bag of change under the Golden Gate Bridge so that I can dig it up and feel like a pirate when we come back to perform Journey at San Jose State in April.
Read MoreJust call us Duracell because we seriously need a recharge. We had a great trip to Ohio and a wonderful performance of Journey LIVE! Isn't it just the way that we will be at another school for a performance of Of Time and Space this coming Tuesday and then jetting off to San Francisco for another performance of Journey with students of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music.
Read MoreWe are about to embark on quite an exciting few weeks here at Fifth House Ensemble with a variety of performances, education work, and touring! Here at "the blog", we're also looking forward to some exciting changes that I spent entirely too long making ambiguous for this week's issue.
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