Arnold Schoenberg: Recreation and Humor

August 10th, 2010 | Author: meade

An interesting exploration of the playful and curious mind of Arnold Schoenberg:

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DEFROSTED

August 8th, 2010 | Author: alex

Found in the vaults : Matthais Pintcher leads ICE in a performance of Dai Fujikura’s ICE @ LPR (04.27.10).

Photograph © Chad Batka.

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daiPhone

July 30th, 2010 | Author: alex

The Electronic Age bespeaks electronic gifts.  Please accept this Dai Fujikura ringtone as a token of our love for you, like a little digital kiss. Excerpted is recording we made of a piece Dai wrote for us aptly titled ICE. So we present to you ICE for ICE by ICE. Preface your incoming calls by the dulcet tones of guitar and kalimba.  Enjoi!

Dai Fujikura

To download, right click on the above link and select “save link as.”  To upload the ringtone, connect your phone to your computer by cord or bluetooth, or email the file to your phone.

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RETURNING

July 21st, 2010 | Author: admin

Welcome to the ROOTS & RETURN blog, your online home for all things related to ICE’s triumphant return to Chicago!  Kick off the 2010-2011 season with us at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago’s MCA Stage.

September 11th, 2010

7:30 pm

MCA Stage

FOR TICKETS, CALL THE MCA BOX OFFICE :: 312.397.4010

Featuring:

Jayce Ogren, guest conductor
Claire Chase, flute

Pierre Boulez: Memoriale (…explosante-fixe…originel) (1985) for flute and eight instruments

Arnold Schoenberg: Chamber Symphony No. 1 (1906) for fifteen instruments

Dai Fujikura: ICE (2010) for chamber ensemble (CHICAGO PREMIERE)

Dai Fujikura: returning (2006) for solo piano (CHICAGO PREMIERE)

John Adams: Son of Chamber Symphony (2007) for chamber ensemble (CHICAGO PREMIERE)

ROOTS AND RETURN traces the web of connections between recent works and the classic pieces that inspired them. Arnold Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphonyheralds the end of the romantic orchestra and provides an epic endorsement of the practical means that would come to define 20th century music. Memoriale is a miniature concerto for flute written at the apex of Pierre Boulez’s mature musical style. It contains fragments of an iterative compositional process that Boulez has been developing over several decades. Dai Fujikura’s returning is a brief work for solo piano, where individual lines weave together in an elegant matrix. returning is a symbolic fanfare to reawaken ICE’s long-standing relationship with Mr. Fujikura’s music. Fujikura’s second piece on the program, ICE, written for the eponymous ensemble, is a symphony of textures, arranged in intricate counterpoint reminiscent of his mentor Pierre Boulez. American icon John Adams’ Son of Chamber Symphony is a kinetic work for chamber orchestra that recalls the lighthearted energy of his own Chamber Symphony, as well as the presence of Schoenberg’s early 20th century masterpiece.
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