Tag Archives: International Contemporary Ensemble
Schick: “The King of Denmark”
More incredible drawings from Steven Schick. On our Varèse project, he graphed out a map of “zones of intensity” for the program; this time, we have a visual representation of the the choreography for playing Morton Feldman’s The King of Denmark. Click the images to enlarge.
See Schick perform it tomorrow, Tuesday, February 22, at TullyScope.
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“Two Conversations”
Ahead of ICE’s Chance Encounters concert to kick off Lincoln Center’s new TullyScope Festival on Tuesday, February 22, we present Steven Schick’s program note, entitled Two Conversations.
The stories are famous now but they started with a chance encounter. Largely unnoticed. Seemingly insignificant. Like many a chance encounter, why was there any reason to think that [...]
Posted in New York Also tagged Alice Tully Hall, Anton Webern, Iannis Xenakis, ICE, John Cage, Lincoln Center, Morton Feldman, Nathan Davis, Steven Schick, TullyScope Leave a comment
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 [...]
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“Prism Path”
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Photos: ICE/Diaz de León @ The Velvet
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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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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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Omar Hernández-Hidalgo (1971-2010)
In our first MoCP concert of the season, ICE will give the world premieres of three new works by young Mexican composers commissioned in memory of extraordinary Mexican viola virtuoso Omar Hernández-Hidalgo (1971-2010). Omar was murdered in his hometown of Tijuana, Mexico in June of this year, one of the thousands of innocent victims of [...]
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Photos: “Maa”
The blog Oberon’s Grove has posted some excellent photos of the band from Maa; see the rest here.
Posted in Saariaho Also tagged Claire Chase, Erik Carlson, ICE, Kaija Saariaho, Luca Veggetti, Maa, Miller Theatre Leave a comment
Review: “Enter Houses Of”