Tag Archives: ICEcast
Cut/Paste
ICE's "On & Off the Page" series continues Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 7:30pm with an incredible line-up of improvisers — Peter Evans, Steve Lehman, Cory Smythe, and Weasel Walter — uniting for a night of "mini-sets" devoted to their unique compositional talents. In this episode of the ICEcast, we interview ICE's Program Director & clarinetist Joshua Rubin on the origins of the concert and its enigmatic name, and play some clips from past ICE collaborations that have helped lead to this incredible night of music.
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Near-Death in Chicago
Ahead of the midwestern premiere of his new art-pop song cycle Thirteen Near-Death Experiences, the ICEcast presents an interview with the sensational composer-performer Corey Dargel, who tells us of his fascination with unusual behavior, as well as hypersensitivity to his subject material. Dargel and ICE perform this genre-defying chamber piece at Chicago’s legendary Velvet Lounge [...]
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Raw Brass
In this episode, ICE horn virtuoso David Byrd-Marrow discusses his upcoming ICETank concert in Manhattan, which will feature a range of rarely-heard music for this most euphonious of instruments.
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An Issue-free Date with ICE & Christian Wolff
This Valentine’s Day, skip the rom-coms. Instead, get your drama from the heightened interplay between performer and part, as ICE joins open-form pioneer Christian Wolff at Brooklyn’s ISSUE Project Room for the first concert in ICE’s new On & Off the Page series. Featured will be Mr. Wolff’s classics Exercises, Tilbury, Serenade, and Tuba Song, [...]
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Lambtastix: Eric Lamb at The Tank
ICE’s fierce flutist Eric Lamb takes Manhattan with a solo recital at The Tank on Thursday, February 4 at 7:30pm.
With a growing following in the US and Europe, Lamb is widely known as an artist who defies definition. A soloist, orchestral musician, passionate chamber musician and teacher, he challenges audiences with intensely energetic playing and [...]
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ICE’s Minneapolis Debut!
On Monday, December 14, 2009, ICE makes its Minneapolis debut at the Southern Theater with two woodwind duos in an adventurous program sure to melt the coldest of winter hearts.
In this ICEcast, listen to selections from the program, including John Zorn’s sortilege, Philippe Hurel’s Loops III, and Felipe Lara’s Vocalise, and hear commentary from Lara as [...]
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Highs & Lows
ICE's Chicago season continues with the electrifying flute duo Wired and bassy clarinet duo Lowfirm in a concert at the Museum of Contemporary Photography. This ICEcast features musical samplings of the duos and the MoCP program, as well as commentary from Felipe Lara and Ryan Ingebritsen.
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An Epic Oboe Battle
ICE's master oboists James Austin Smith and Nick Masterson will take the stage at The Tank on Thursday, November 5 in a duel to determine which woodwind will reign supreme. There can be only one!
Hear Smith & Masterson setting the rules of engagement, with a preliminary artillery show from Smith as he plays Berio’s Sequenza VIIa, on this episode of the ICEcast.
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ICE @ MoCP: Reversed Images
ICE will kick off its 2009–10 Chicago season with a solo recital from the ensemble’s founding violinist David Bowlin at the Museum of Contemporary Photography on Friday, October 9th at 7:30pm. This one is not to be missed!
In this ICEcast, Bowlin discusses the centerpiece of his program at MoCP: Luigi Nono’s late masterpiece, La Lontananza [...]
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