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ParisPerle noire : méditations pour JoséphineNew production

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Sorey: Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine
Tyshawn Sorey; Peter Sellars; Opéra national de Paris; Carlos J Soto; James F Ingalls; International Contemporary Ensemble; Claudia Rankine

LondonPerle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine

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Sorey: Perle Noire: Meditations for Joséphine
Peter Sellars; Carlos J Soto; James F Ingalls; International Contemporary Ensemble; Jody Elff
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Wordless stories take root in ICE‘s Hannah Kendall portrait concert

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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

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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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ICE plays Jennie C Jones at the Metropolitan Museum

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The Met Museum is currently home to three large sculptures by multidisciplinary artist Jennie C Jones, whose graphic scores are performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble. 
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ICE shows a new and exciting side of Dai Fujikura at Miller Theatre

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.
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Jörg Widmann's somber humor at Carnegie Hall

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. 
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Kopernikus revival finds inspiration – and cliché – in the afterlife

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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