Tuesday, September 4 @ 6 pm
PHILIPPE MANOURY AT THE SPIEGELTENT
Spiegeltent, South Street Seaport, Pier 17, NYC
Tickets: $35 general / $15 students
212.279.4200 or www.ticketcentral.com
More info: www.spiegelworld.com
With:
Philippe
Manoury, composer
Tony Arnold, soprano
Jerome Rothenberg,
poet
Last (1997) for bass clarinet and marimba
En Echo (1993) for soprano and live electronics
Cruel Spirals (2007) for soprano and ensemble
ICE presents a concert celebrating the work of one of the most important French living composers.
In collaboration with soprano Tony Arnold, ICE presents the WORLD PREMIERE of Manoury’s Cruel Spirals (2007), commissioned by ICE with generous assistance from The French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with major support from SACEM and BMG Music Publishing.
POST-CONCERT CONVERSATION
with Philippe Manoury and Jerome Rothenberg
Tuesday, September 4 @ 8 pm
New York Theater Workshop
79 East Fourth Street, East Village
With The Brooklyn Rail Editors Dave Mandl and Donald Breckenridge
Immediately following the concert, please join us in a post-concert conversation and reception at New York Theater Workshop, organized by The Brooklyn Rail.
Cruel Spirals is scored for solo soprano, string quartet, flute, clarinet, guitar and percussion, and is based on texts by Jerome Rothenberg with whom Manoury has worked closely for the past several years. “I was very impressed by his energy and his rhythmic declamation while he was performing his texts,” said Manoury of his first encounters with Rothenberg. Mr. Rothenberg, who has been recognized as “one of the truly contemporary American poets who has returned U.S. poetry to the mainstream of international modern literature,” will also be present at the event to read his poems.
ICE also presents two of Manoury’s 20th century masterpieces: the New York Premiere of Last (1997), the virtuoso duo for bass clarinet and marimba; and En Echo (1993)Manoury’s epic work for solo soprano and electronics, rendered here with the composer himself manipulating the live electronics. Manoury says that En Echo marked “the first time in the history of electronic music that the vocal part of a composition was automatically followed by the computer, which was making a real time analysis of sounds of the voice to be used in, creating the synthetic sounds.” This achieved “a closer intimacy between the interpreter and the electronic music.” Manoury praises soprano Tony Arnold as “a wonderful singer with a very high sense of musicality. Her performance of En Echo is extremely sensitive and controlled at the same time.”
The Spiegeltent is located at the Northern Side of Pier 17 (600 yards south of the Brooklyn Bridge on the north side of Pier 17 at South Street Seaport).
