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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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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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Mario Diaz de Leon on “The Soul is the Arena” (2010)
“The Soul is the Arena,” for bass clarinet and electronic music, was written for Joshua Rubin in summer 2010, and is dedicated to him. It is intended as a sequel to “The Flesh Needs Fire,” for flute, clarinet, and electronic music. Inspired in part by accounts of wrathful deities in Tibetan Buddhism, whose spirits take [...]
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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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Prism Path: Mario Diaz de León
Composer & multi-instrumentalist Mario Diaz de León joins ICE onstage at The Velvet Lounge on Friday, November 19 for a concert of his recent hybrid acoustic/electric compositions.
The ICEcast recently sat down with Mario in a small room at Columbia University (sorry ’bout the reverb…) for an interview covering how he describes his music at cocktail [...]
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Schick: “The King of Denmark”