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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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
