ICE Performs Five Summer Events in NYC Presented by Lincoln Center
By: A.A. Cristi Jun. 26, 2017
On Friday, July 28 at 7pm, ICE will perform Heart of Tones: A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros, a free Lincoln Center Out of Doors concert honoring the memory and legacy of long-time ICE mentor Pauline Oliveros. ICE frequently worked with Pauline in natural, open-air settings, and this concert allows ICE to bring that experience to New York in the public square of Lincoln Center. The program focuses on three of Pauline's works that in turn use nature, instruments, and technology as inspirations: Applebox Double, Heart of Tones, and One Hundred Meeting Places.
Part of Lincoln Center's Mostly Mozart Festival, ICE performs another free concert, Schubertiade Remix, at the David Rubenstein Atrium on Monday, August 7, 2017 at 7:30pm. In the festive spirit of Schubert's famous musical soirées, artists from New York's eclectic music scene will present an evening of radical contemporary responses to Schubert's songs, plus interactive games and prizes. Emcees Rick Burkhardt, Alec Duffy, and Dave Malloy join ICE for this tribute to one of history's greatest composers and partiers.
In two highly anticipated Mostly Mozart performances on Saturday, August 12 at 7:30pm and Sunday, August 13 at 5pm, ICE performs Netia Jones's "enthralling" (The Daily Telegraph) theatrical production of Hans Zender's adaptation of Schubert's Winterreise, The Dark Mirror: Zender's Winterreise, at the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center. ICE will be joined by tenor Ian Bostridge -- one of today's foremost interpreters of Winterreise -- and conductor Baldur Brönnimann in his Mostly Mozart Festival debut to bring Schubert's poignant song cycle about lost love to life through the contemporary orchestrations and Jones' stunning monochrome imagery. These performances are a co-production with the Barbican Centre, Cal Performances, National Taichung Theater, and the Britten Sinfonia.
ICE's final Mostly Mozart concert of the summer is How Forests Think, a contemporary interpretation of the temple of nature in which Schubert and his fellow Romantics worshipped, on Monday, August 14, 2017 at 7:30pm at Merkin Concert Hall. Audience members are invited to listen to the earth through the hushed reverence of Pauline Oliveros' ritualistic Earth Ears and the US premieres of Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Aequilibria and Liza Lim's How Forests Think.
Program Information
Lincoln Center Out of Doors: Heart of Tones: A Tribute to Pauline Oliveros
Friday July 28, 2017 at 7pm
Hearst Plaza at Lincoln Center | 66th St. between Broadway and Columbus | New York, NY
Tickets: Free
Link: www.lincolncenter.org/out-of-doors/show/heart-of-tones-a-tribute-to-pauline-oliveros
Program:
Pauline Oliveros: Applebox Double
Pauline Oliveros: Heart of Tones
Pauline Oliveros: One Hundred Meeting Places
Mostly Mozart: Schubertiade Remix
Monday, August 7, 2017 at 7:30pm
David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center | 61 W 62nd St. | New York, NY
Tickets: Free
Link: http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart/show/schubertiade-remix
Mostly Mozart: The Dark Mirror: Zender's Winterreise
Saturday, August 12 at 7:30pm and Sunday, August 13 at 5pm
Rose Theatre at Jazz at Lincoln Center | The Shops at Columbus Circle | 10 Columbus Circle, New York, NY
Tickets: $35-$75
Link: http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart/show/the-dark-mirror-zenders-winterreise
Performers:
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Baldur Brönnimann, conductor (Mostly Mozart debut)
International Contemporary Ensemble
Program:
Hans Zender: Schubert's Winterreise - A Composed Interpretation for Tenor and Small Orchestra
Mostly Mozart: How Forests Think
Monday, August 14, 2017 at 7:30pm
Merkin Concert Hall | 129 W 67th Street | New York, NY
Tickets: $30
Link: http://www.lincolncenter.org/mostly-mozart/show/how-forests-think
Performers:
Baldur Brönnimann, conductor
Wu Wei, sheng (Mostly Mozart debut)
International Contemporary Ensemble
Program:
Pauline Oliveros: Earth Ears
Anna Thorvaldsdottir: Aequilibria (US premiere)
Liza Lim: How Forests Think (US premiere)
About the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE)
The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is an artist collective committed to transforming the way music is created and experienced. As performer, curator, and educator, ICE explores how new music intersects with communities across the world. The ensemble's 35 members are featured as soloists, chamber musicians, commissioners, and collaborators with the foremost musical artists of our time. Works by emerging composers have anchored ICE's programming since its founding in 2001, and the group's recordings and digital platforms highlight the many voices that weave music's present.
A recipient of the American Music Center's Trailblazer Award and the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, ICE was also named the 2014 Musical America Ensemble of the Year. The group currently serves as artists-in- residence at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts' Mostly Mozart Festival, and previously led a five- year residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. ICE has been featured at the Ojai Music Festival since 2015, and has appeared at festivals abroad such as Acht Brücken Cologne and Musica nova Helsinki. Other recent performance stages include the Park Avenue Armory, The Stone, ice floes at Greenland's Diskotek Sessions, and boats on the Amazon River.
New initiatives include OpenICE, made possible with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which offers free concerts and related programming wherever ICE performs, and enables a working process with composers to unfold in public settings. DigitICE catalogues the ensemble's performances in a free online streaming video library. ICE's First Page program is a commissioning consortium that fosters close collaborations between performers, composers, and listeners as new music is developed. EntICE, a side-by- side youth program, places ICE musicians within youth orchestras as they premiere new commissioned works together. Inaugural EntICE partners include Youth Orchestra Los Angeles and The People's Music School in Chicago. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE. Read more at iceorg.org.
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