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Mar 12, 2025
An Update from ICE
Mar 12, 2025
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Nov 19, 2024
On the Power of Cultural Exchanges
Nov 19, 2024
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Oct 22, 2024
Announcing the new members of the International Contemporary Ensemble!
Oct 22, 2024
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Announcing our 2024-25 Season!
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Aug 5, 2024
Announcing our Call For ____ Composers!
Aug 5, 2024
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Feb 13, 2024
The New York Times: International Contemporary Ensemble at Carnegie Hall
Feb 13, 2024
Feb 13, 2024
Feb 5, 2024
Shout out in The New Yorker!
Feb 5, 2024
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Jan 16, 2024
WQXR Feature!
Jan 16, 2024
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Jan 12, 2024
Congratulations to George Lewis on this feature!
Jan 12, 2024
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Dec 4, 2023
Afterword in the New York Times!
Dec 4, 2023
Dec 4, 2023

Afterword: An Opera in Two Acts by George Lewis

November 16, 2023

✨Afterword: An Opera in Two Acts✨ by George Lewis was released October 6th on New Focus Recordings/TUNDRA! Afterword is an opera by composer George Lewis, developed with directors Sean Griffin & Catherine Sullivan, and performed by Joelle Lamarre (soprano), Gwendolyn Brown (contralto), Julian Terrell Otis (tenor), Otis Harris, Zachary Nicol, Ninah Snipes, Ann E. Ward, Douglas R. Ewart, Discopoet Khari B., Coco Elysses, and the International Contemporary Ensemble. The work derives from Lewis’s book about the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM), “A Power Stronger Than Itself: The AACM and American Experimental Music.”

Lewis describes Afterword as “an opera of ideas, positionality, and testament…exploring history to reaffirm fundamentally human perspectives that mark not only the AACM, but also any social formation.” The opera presents the AACM not as a set of fixed characters and plot lines, but as an avatar for experimental Blackness itself. As the action unfolds, we witness young Black experimentalists interrogating issues of power, authority, identity, representation, culture, economics, politics, and aesthetics; self-fashioning and self-determination; personal, professional, and collective aspiration; and tradition, innovation, change, spiritual growth, death, and rebirth.

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