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ICEcast: John Luther Adams and Steven Schick in conversation
ICE will be joined by conductor & percussionist Steven Schick and composer John Luther Adams on Saturday, February 26 at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago for two concerts of Adams’s music: the meditative In the White Silence on the MCA Stage at 7:30pm, and the virtuosic solo percussion piece The Mathematics of Resonant Bodies, written [...]
Wendy Richman: “Viola &”
Check out Sequenza21 for an interview with ICE violist Wendy Richman, who will be performing a concert of what could be called “one-woman duos.” Though, says Wendy:
“It’s not entirely fair for me to say all the pieces are one-woman duos,” she says. “There’s a very active partner, sound designer Levy Lorenzo, doing much of the program [...]
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A few ICE-y year-end lists
Some love for ICE on the year-end “Best of 2010″ lists:
The Best New York Alt-Classical Concerts Of 2010
As a send-off to their appearances in Darmstadt, Germany, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and the JACK Quartet perform works by Earl Brown, Caleb Burhans, Jason Eckhardt and Yoshiaki Onishi in this June 29 performance. Formed from the [...]
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The myth of Orpheus, as music
ICE’s residency at Baruch High School last week resulted in some amazing compositions from the 9th grade classes, like this graphic score to accompany the Orpheus myth.
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Marcos Balter lowers his guard
Marcos Balter, one of our ICElab collaborators for 2011, is featured in this week’s Time Out Chicago discussing his new piece developing as part of the Meet the Composer Studio. Æsopica will be premiered by ICE in April 2011.
“If I’m honest, I’ve had to censor a few things here and there,” Balter says. “Composing for me is [...]
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Essential ICE
Claire, Josh, James, and Gareth each rocked a Berio Sequenza at ISSUE Project Room on Wednesday night as part of the Darmstadt Classics of the Avant-Garde series.
Steve Smith reviews the show in the New York Times today:
These unsparingly difficult works have thrived because they appeal as much to a listener’s ear as to a musician’s [...]
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“New memoriam”
From writer Marc Geelhoed:
I knew Omar Hernández-Hidalgo somewhat when we were both in Bloomington at the Indiana University’s Jacobs School of Music. We didn’t know each other well, but I heard him perform frequently with the New Music Ensemble and in orchestra concerts. He stood about 5’6″, with delicate features but with a vein of [...]
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“Two Conversations”