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May 31, 2013
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Mostly Mozart Festival: ICE performs David Lang’s Whisper Opera

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The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) returns to Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival this summer as Artists-in-Residence, performing an intrepid series of 10 new works by 10 established and emerging New York based composers. One of the highlights will be the New York premiere of acclaimed composer David Lang and his new work, “The Whisper Opera,” inspired by his visits to rural Italy, where he was surprised to experience the powerful intimacy of small opera houses. “The Whisper Opera” is a one-of-a-kind work, performed with musicians, singer, and audience enclosed in an intimate, onstage set.

ICE premieres the work this week in Chicago, and created a video with the composer to give a sneak peek. Check it out here.

Learn more about ICE and its concerts at this summer’s Mostly Mozart Festival.

(Photo of ICE: Armen Elliott)

 

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May 30, 2013
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Mostly Mozart: Happy birthday Pauline Oliveros!

Happy birthday to pioneering composer and accordionist Pauline Oliveros!

Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival celebrates her birthday later this summer with a special portrait concert performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble on August 20 at the Clark Studio Theater.

(Photo by: Vinciane Verguethen)

 

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April 09, 2013
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The 2013 Mostly Mozart Festival is unveiled! This summer’s Festival, running July 27 - August 24 in New York features more than 50 events spanning concerts, opera productions, pre-concert lectures and recitals, late-night performances, a film screening and premieres of new work. The Festival kicks off with a free performance led by Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra on July 27 at Avery Fisher Hall.

A major highlight of the 2013 Festival is the thematic focus on the rich musical lineage between Mozart and Beethoven, with several concerts throughout the Festival pairing music by both composers. In addition, the Budapest Festival Orchestra returns with a staged concert of Le nozze di Figaro, the first time Mozart’s great opera is presented in full at the Festival. International Contemporary Ensemble also returns with 10 concerts featuring 10 world premieres by 10 established and emerging composers, ranging from David Land Pauline Oliveros to Tyshawn Sorey and Phyllis Chen. Debuts this season include conductors Gianandrea Noseda, David Afkham and Steven Schick, among others. Chamber music features prominently, with performances by the Emerson, Calder and Leipzig quartets.

Single tickets go on sale April 29.

Click here to read the full press release about the Festival

Click here to visit the new Mostly Mozart website

 

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June 28, 2012
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Matthias Pintscher appointed Music Director of Ensemble intercontemporain

Matthias Pintscher’s last performance at Lincoln Center was with the International Contemporary Ensemble during Mostly Mozart Festival 2011. Next season, he will conduct Tamara Mumford, Russell Thomas, and musicians of the New York Philharmonic in a performance of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde on November 4th as part of the 2012 White Light Festival. Congratulations, Matthias. We wish you the best!

 

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August 10, 2011
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This year’s Mostly Mozart artists-in-resident ICE returns tomorrow night with a ‘lil Mozart and a lot of new music, including two world premieres at A Little Night Music.

This rehearsal footage from their all-Stravinsky program, which was reviewed by Steve Smith at The New York Times, is excerpted below:

“The two concerts that the ensemble presented on Monday evening showed that insinuation into the mainstream has come without compromise: a sign of the group’s integrity and evidence of the evolution afoot at Mostly Mozart over the last decade.

Why Stravinsky? A fair question, and one that the concert program’s notes attesting to his crabby admiration for Mozart’s music only partly addressed. But in Stravinsky’s chamber works, played at Alice Tully Hall in the evening, you could discern echoes of Mozart’s Classical clarity and economy, as well as his ribald humor. In an imaginative stroke the concert opened with a player piano — a Yamaha Disklavier programmed by Cory Smythe, actually — merrily rattling its mechanized way through Stravinsky’s “Study for Pianola.”

 

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June 16, 2011
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ICE is blogging from rehearsals for Mostly Mozart!

 

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