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Consensus in sound: ICE plays Jennie C Jones at the Metropolitan Museum

Clara Warnaar
© Stephanie Berger
International Contemporary Ensemble
© Stephanie Berger
Par Kurt Gottschalk, 07 octobre 2025
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“something rarely present in the performance of graphic or nontraditional scores: group cohesion”
Critique faite à Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, le 5 octobre 2025
Programme
Jones, Oxide Score
Jones, Met Color Study
Artistes
International Contemporary Ensemble
Emmalie Tello, Clarinette
Mike Lormand, Trombone
Nuiko Wadden, Harpe
Clara Warnaar, Percussions
Modney, Violon
Kyle Armbrust, Alto
Brandon Lopez, Contrebasse
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Wordless stories take root in ICE‘s Hannah Kendall portrait concert
Kurt Gottschalk, 23rd April
The International Contemporary Ensemble performs a program of Hannah Kendall at Columbia University’s Miller Theatre.
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Julia Bullock in Meditations for Joséphine at Adelaide Festival
Sandra Bowdler, 3rd March
A challenging depiction of Joséphine Baker brilliantly performed by Julia Bullock under the direction of Peter Sellars at the Adelaide Festival.
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Perle Noire: kammermusikalische Meditationen in Amsterdam
Michael Klier, 9th March
Tyshawn Soreys Perle Noire: Meditationen für Joséphine hinterlässt eine unvergleichbare Note und individuellen Flair.
***11
ICE shows a new and exciting side of Dai Fujikura at Miller Theatre
Kurt Gottschalk, 5th March
Building on 15 years of collaboration with the ensemble, Gilded Wings (for two clarinets and strings) revealed a new maturity in Fujikura's always enjoyable music.
*****
Jörg Widmann's somber humor at Carnegie Hall
Kurt Gottschalk, 28th January
In fragments and miniatures, the ensemble pieces were most satisfying, allowing Widmann not to build arguments but define subjects by contrast, showing a quick wit and a flair for suspense. 
*****
Kopernikus revival finds inspiration – and cliché – in the afterlife
Kurt Gottschalk, 15th May

Composer Claude Vivier approaches the unknowable with a text delivered by a septet of vocalists in a language of his own invention. But the new production adds overly literal video, trading abstraction for the obvious.

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Kurt Gottschalk
Kurt Gottschalk

Kurt Gottschalk is a journalist and author based in New York City. His writings on contemporary and classical music, jazz and improvisation have been published in outlets throughout Europe and America and he has two volumes of short fiction to his name. He produced and hosted the Miniature Minotaurs radio programme on WFMU and currently hosts Afternoon New Music on WKCR.