“Here, as a highlight of this summer’s Mostly Mozart Festival, was a top-notch contemporary-music ensemble, under the brilliant direction of the fast-rising French conductor Ludovic Morlot, in a program featuring three audaciously modern scores by three living composers. The hall was packed; the audience gave cheering ovations to each work…”
Read Anthony Tommasini’s full review of Monday night’s show in The New York Times here.
Check out this teaser produced by our friend Kevin W. Mayner. Displayed are scenes from ICE rehearsals with conductors Ryan Nelson & Ludovic Morlot working on Mouvement by Helmut Lachenmann. Lach n’ Roll!
Monday, August 16, 2010 at 7:30
Rose Theater
featuring Ludovic Morlot, conductor
& special guest Pierre-Laurent Aimard
Frederick P. Rose Hall,
Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Broadway at 60th Street
(Time Warner Center)
From last year’s Wired/Lowfirm show at The Southern; how cool is this?
Art by Ross Bruggink.
On Wednesday, July 7 at 7 p.m. EST, Q2 streams the New York premiere of Varèse’s own arrangement of his iconic Amériques for 2 pianos, 8-hands, as well as performances of Density 21.5 and Un Grand Sommeil Noir. WNYC’s John Schaefer hosts the event live from the Yamaha Piano Salon; don’t forget to listen in.
The ICEcast spoke to pianists Jacob Greenberg and Amy Williams about the recent discovery of Varèse’s arrangement, and what we can expect to hear on Wednesday night.
Program:
Density 21.5 (1936)
with Claire Chase, flute
Un Grand Sommeil Noir (1906)
with Samantha Malk, soprano
Amériques (NEW YORK PREMIERE of 8-hand piano version) (1929; ed. Helena Bugallo 2005)
with Jacob Greenberg, Amy Williams, Amy Briggs and Thomas Rosenkranz
Listen live on WQXR’s Q2 program, Wednesday, July 7 at 7pm; and get more Varèse on our blog, Edgar(d).
Thanks to everyone who came out to ICE’s Summer Gala last night at the Gramercy Park Hotel! The party was fabulous, and we hope you enjoyed the performance of Nathan Davis’s Gramercy Bells.
As a special thank you, we’re offering a sneak preview of the recording of Nathan’s 2007 work for bass clarinet and electronics, Dowser, written for and performed by Joshua Rubin. Stay tuned for the ICE/Nathan Davis debut album due out on New Focus Recordings in January 2011!
Excerpt from Dowser, for bass clarinet and electronics, by Nathan Davis
Recorded live at EMPAC, 11-7-10
ICE & the JACK Quartet share the stage at New York’s (le) Poisson Rouge on Tuesday, June 29 beginning at 7:30pm. In addition to Jason Eckardt’s 16, we’ve got this classic from Earle Brown.
Could I request that all composers include drawings on the title page of their scores?
Want to be in the audience for the NY premiere of Varèse’s arrangement of Amériques for 2 pianos, 8 hands, in addition to performances of Un Grand Sommeil Noir and Density 21.5, all webcast live on WQXR’s Q2 on July 7, 7pm from the Yamaha Piano Salon?
Of course you do.
Be one of the first 20 people to RSVP to varese@lincolncenter.org to secure a spot for you and a guest on the guestlist.
After a chance meeting between our own Claire Chase and Spanish, George Crumb-loving painter Manuel Jular, Claire gifted the artist a copy of ICE’s recording of Crumb’s music on Bridge Records.
He posted this image to his blog today, inspired by the music and the performer.
Beautiful, no?
In the fall of 2008, ICE gave the US premiere of Iannis Xenakis’s opera Oresteia. This summer, the recording of that concert will soundtrack a marionette version of the opera, directed by Luca Vigetti, to be held at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in New York’s Central Park.
On the same day, ICE’s own Nathan Davis will join master percussionist (and Xenakis expert) Steven Schick and others for the first open-air U.S. performance of Persephassa. The concert will take place around the lake in Central Park, with the audience in the middle of the lake on rowboats. Xenakis, on a lake, in the middle of Central Park. Seriously.
It’s all part of Make Music New York on June 21, 2010. More details on these and other Xenakis performances here.
ICE in Action
Our friend (& amazing photographer) Armen Elliott has posted some shots of ICE during rehearsals for Mostly Mozart on her blog; check them out!