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Wednesday, October 19, 2016

Vijay Iyer & ICERadhe Radhe: Rites of Holi

Vijay Iyer & ICEWednesday, October 19, 2016, 7:30 p.m.Gartner Auditorium, the Cleveland Museum of Art

PROGRAM

Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (1913, Arranged for ICE by Cliff Colnot, 2016) World premiere of this arrangement for ICE

Part I. Adoration of the Earth

Introduction

The Augurs of Spring: Dances of the Young Girls

Ritual of Abduction

Spring Rounds

Ritual of the Rival Tribes

Procession of the Sage

The Sage

Dance of the Earth

Part II. The Sacrifice

Introduction

Mystic Circles of the Young Girls

Glorification of the Chosen One

Evocation of the Ancestors

Ritual Action of the Ancestors

Sacrificial Dance (The Chosen One)

INTERMISSION

Welcome to the Cleveland Museum of ArtThe Cleveland Museum of Art’s performing arts series brings together thoughtful, fascinating, and beautiful experiences, comprising a concert calendar notable for its boundless multiplicity. This year we look forward to visits from old friends and new, bringing us music from around the globe and spanning many centuries. Here is the place where performance is intended to explore connections of cultures, the heart, the human spirit.

In the galleriesArt and Stories from Mughal India Through October 23, 2016

Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-Century Prints and Drawings Through November 6, 2016

Myth and Mystique: Cleveland’s Gothic Table Fountain Through February 26, 2017

The Ecstasy of St. Kara: Kara Walker, New Work Through December 31, 2016

Dan Graham/Rocks (at Transformer Station, W. 29th St.) Through December 4, 2016

cma.org/performingarts #CMAperformingarts

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, October 5, 6:00

FretworkWednesday, October 12, 7:30

Vijay Iyer & International Contemporary EnsembleWednesday, October 19, 7:30

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, November 2, 6:00

Oberlin Contemporary Music EnsembleSaturday, November 5, 2:00

Jean-Baptiste MonnotSunday, November 13, 2:00

Oberlin Contemporary Music EnsembleSunday, December 4, 2:00

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, December 7, 6:00

Francesco D’OrazioMonday, December 9, 7:30

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, January 4, 6:00

The Crossing: David Lang’s LifespanFriday–Sunday, January 6–8

The “Qatsi” TrilogyFriday–Sunday, January 27–29

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, February 1, 6:00

Emmanuel ArakélianSunday, February 19, 2:00

Oberlin Contemporary Music EnsembleSunday, February 26, 2:00

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, March 1, 6:00

QuinceWednesday, March 22, 7:30

Frode Haltli & Emilia AmperWednesday, March 29, 7:30

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, April 5, 6:00

Oberlin Contemporary Music EnsembleSunday, April 9, 2:00

Zakir Hussain & Rahul SharmaWednesday, April 12, 7:30

Jeffrey ZeiglerWednesday, April 26, 7:30

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, May 3, 6:00

Brandee Younger & Courtney BryanWednesday, May 10, 7:30

Performing Arts

Please turn off all electronic devices before entering the performance hall.

Photography and audio/video recording in the performance hall are prohibited.

Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi

Part I. Adoration

1. Dawn

2. Promise

3. Summoning

4. Spring Fever

5. Procession

6. Colors

Part II. Transcendence

7. Thirst

8. Intoxication

9. Exaltation

10. Spirits

11. Rituals

12. Purging Rites

Music by Vijay IyerFilm directed, edited and designed by Prashant Bhargava

Performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) Executive Producer Stephen Cohen for Music + Art

Featuring Anna George as Radha Appearances by Nawazuddin Siddiqui & Beatrice Ordeix Director of Photography Craig Marsden

Conductor Tim Weiss Piano Vijay Iyer

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International Contemporary EnsemblePiano Cory SmytheFlute Alice Teyssier Clarinet, Bass Clarinet Joshua RubinBassoon, Contrabassoon Rebekah HellerTrumpet Gareth FlowersViolin Jennifer Curtis Viola Kyle Armbrust Cello Kivie Cahn-LipmanBass Randy ZiglerPercussion Ross KarreTimpani John MinorPercussion, Drum Set Ches SmithPercussion, Live Sound Engineer Levy Lorenzo

Video Engineer Sven FurbergLighting Designer Rus SnellingAssociate Lighting Designer Michael Mauren

Additional Cinematography (India) Prashant BhargavaCreative Producer (India) Anjali PanjabiArt Direction & Assistant Director (India) Sujata Sharma VirkCreative Producer (Radha Shoot) Nikhil MelnechukDirector of Photography (Radha Shoot) Jay SilverProduction Design (Radha Shoot) Mimi BaiArt Director (Radha Shoot) Raoul AnchandoCostume and Styling (Radha Shoot) Sheena SoodMake-up (Radha Shoot) Rebecca CascianoColorist Blase Theodore, Contact Di

(all compositions ©2013–2014 Schott Music Corporation, New York)

Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi created for and commissioned by Carolina Performing Arts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Additional commissioning funds for revision and completion of the work were provided by the Brooklyn Academy of Music/Next Wave Festival, CAP UCLA and the Strathmore.

Vijay Iyer is a Steinway artist and uses Ableton Live software. He records for ECM Records.

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PROGRAM NOTE

Igor Stranvinsky: The Rite of Spring

ICE had the privilege of premiering Vijay Iyer and Prashant Bhargava’s Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi during The Rite of Spring’s 100th anniversary year. The power, color, and drama of Stravinsky’s Rite was on our mind that year, but ICE is a small group of soloists dedicated to the music of our time; after a hundred years, even Stravinsky’s groundbreaking work that fanned the flames of the most radical art of the 20th century can’t be described as “new.” And the massive orchestra that Stravinsky’s Rite demands would require us to clone a lot of ICE players, and possibly break the stage. For the anniversary, Vijay and Prashant’s masterfully contemporary response to The Rite captured the spirit of that piece in a way that I think Stravinsky would have understood.

Still, The Rite lives with us. Its spiky dances, propulsive rhythms, and eerie textures are embedded in our ears. It was the piece that inspired most of us in ICE to dive deep into the study of 20th-century music, which drove us to want to create and champion the music of the 21st century. We needed a Rite that would show off ICE’s soloists, would honor Stravinsky’s imposing piece, and compliment the freshness of Vijay and Prashant’s work. So three years later, we’re excited to present the premiere of The Rite of Spring for you tonight, beautifully arranged by longtime collaborator Cliff Colnot. It was commissioned by ICE in memory of Prashant Bhargava who was admired and beloved by the members of ICE.

—Joshua Rubin

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ARTISTS’ STATEMENT

Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi

My dear friend and collaborator Prashant Bhargava passed away suddenly in 2015. Here are our updated joint notes about this project, which was his last major work. Tonight’s performance is dedicated to him. – V.I.

Holi is known around the world as a joyful, chaotic and colorful celebration of springtime in India. When we were invited to respond to Stravinsky’s own famously chaotic work about springtime, we were intrigued by the possible connection with Holi. This festival provides an occasion to reconsider the aspects of ritual and transformation represented in Le Sacré du Printemps.

In early conversations, we realized that we were interested less in an artistic fantasy of pagan sacrifice than in the lived and felt reality of individuals on the brink of change: the significance of myth in earthly life as a living heritage. Our attention turned to the Braj region of Uttar Pradesh, India, the mythical home of Krishna, the Hindu deity whose youthful flirtations with his beloved Radha and her friends form one of the narratives for the holiday. According to one story, the young, dark-skinned god, annoyed that Radha was so fair, sneaks up on her and her

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friends, surprising the girls with showers of colored powder, perhaps evening the score.

Whether a playful strategy for overcoming racial difference, or a moment of interplay of gender and power, or simply the enactment of a youthful fantasy, this particular impulsive act is now the central, cathartic ritual of Holi. On that day everyone becomes Krishna and Radha (or fondly Radhe); all participants throw color and get color thrown at them. A pulsing desire to unite with the goddess sends a city into a feverish state of spinning and yearning. Everyone enters a state of uninhibited, ecstatic freedom that remains hidden for the rest of the year.

In March 2011, Prashant and his film crew traveled to Mathura and the surrounding region, where Holi celebrations last not one day and night, but eight. The cameras captured members of a community in the heightened throes of transformation, turning the seasons of their own lives. Temples fill with devotees, dancing without inhibition, pushing and shoving to receive blessings. Gangs of teenagers loiter on corners with buckets of colorful liquid and powder waiting to douse those who pass by. Men, high on intoxicating spirits, make a pilgrimage to Radha’s village dressed in vibrant garb from the region of Krishna’s playground and equipped with ceremonial shields; as the men boisterously taunt with sexually provocative chants, women await armed with long sticks ready to beat them. Purging fires, expressions of devoutness, and feats of austerity offer a nighttime counterpoint to the baudy daytime revels.

Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi is a journey of devotion for the goddess Radha. In this project, we answer back to the Sacré score and ballet with a new work for chamber ensemble and film. International Contemporary Ensemble performs a suite for winds, strings, percussion, pianos, and electronics, in live counterpoint with cinematic episodes compiled from the Holi footage and from a staged depiction of Radha’s encounter with Krishna. The temporalities that structure the score come not only from the rhythms of the rituals and dances that you see onscreen, but also from the experiences of longing, catharsis, and transcendence that this celebration brings. The result is also a ballet of sorts: a performative encounter between live music and film, between lived experience and myth, the self and the transformed self, winter and spring.

—Vijay Iyer & Prashant Bhargava

MUSIC

VIJAY IYER, piano, composerComposer-pianist Vijay Iyer was voted DownBeat Magazine’s Jazz Artist of the Year for 2012, 2015, and 2016. He received a 2013 MacArthur Fellowship, a 2012 Doris Duke Performing Artist Award, and a 2011 Grammy nomination. He has released twenty-one albums, including A Cosmic Rhythm with Each Stroke (ECM, 2016) in duo with legendary composer-trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith, named “Best New Music” by Pitchfork; Break Stuff (ECM, 2015) with the Vijay Iyer Trio, winner of the German Record Critics’ Award for Album of the Year; the live score to the film Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi (ECM, 2014) by celebrated filmmaker Prashant Bhargava; and Holding it Down: The Veterans’ Dreams Project (Pi Recordings, 2013), a searing collaboration with poet-performer Mike Ladd, named Album of the Year in the Los Angeles Times.

Iyer’s compositions have been commissioned and premiered by Bang on a Can All-Stars, The Silk Road Ensemble, Ethel,

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mentored the ensembles eighth blackbird and ICE as well as many other leading performers in the field of contemporary music.

As a committed educator, he is Professor of Conducting and Chair of the Division of Contemporary Music at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. He holds degrees from the Royal Conservatory in Brussels, Belgium, Northwestern University, and the University of Michigan.

KYLE ARMBRUST, violaSince giving his New York solo debut with Kurt Masur and the Juilliard Orchestra in Avery Fisher Hall, Kyle Armbrust has created a multi-dimensional career performing and recording a wide range of music. An active proponent of contemporary music, he has worked with Elliot Carter, Mario Davidovsky, Osvaldo Golijov, Steve Reich, Charles Wuorinen, and others. He is a member of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), principal viola of the Westchester Philharmonic, and a founding member of the Knights Chamber Orchestra. He is a substitute member of the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, and Philadelphia Orchestra.

KIVIE CAHN-LIPMAN, cello Kivie Cahn-Lipman holds degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory and Juilliard School, and he received his doctorate in 2016 from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. He is the founding cellist of ICE, as well as the lironist, second gambist, occasional cellist, substitute violonist, and accidental quasi-director of the Baroque ensemble ACRONYM. Kivie has recorded for the Nonesuch, ECM, Naxos, Bridge, New Focus, New World, New Amsterdam, Tzadik, Kairos, Mode, Tundra, Starkland, and Olde Focus labels. His 2014 recording of J.S. Bach’s complete Cello Suites was praised for its “eloquent performances,” “fresh thinking,” and “energy and zeal” (The Strad). From 2005–2012 Kivie taught in a full-time position shared between Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges. He is currently an Artist-Teacher of Cello at The College of New Jersey, and he has been on the faculty of the Cortona Sessions for New Music since 2012.

Brentano Quartet, Brooklyn Rider, Imani Winds, American Composers Orchestra, International Contemporary Ensemble, Chamber Orchestra Leopoldinum, Matt Haimowitz, and Jennifer Koh; his concert works are published by Schott Music. Iyer has performed, recorded, and collaborated with musical pioneers Steve Coleman, George Lewis, Butch Morris, Roscoe Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Rudresh Mahanthappa, Dr. L. Subramaniam, Steve Lehman, Craig Taborn, Oliver Lake, Ambrose Akinmusire, Tyshawn Sorey, Matana Roberts, poets Amiri Baraka and Mike Ladd, novelist Teju Cole, and rapper Himanshu Suri.

Iyer is the Franklin D. and Florence Rosenblatt Professor of the Arts at Harvard University. He is also the Director of The Banff Centre’s International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, the 2015–16 Artist-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Musical Director for the 2017 Ojai Festival. He holds a doctorate in music cognition from University of California, Berkeley, and his writings have appeared in Journal of Consciousness Studies, Wire, Music Perception, JazzTimes, Journal of the Society for American Music, Critical Studies in Improvisation, and The Oxford Handbook of Critical Improvisation Studies. He is a Steinway artist.

TIM WEISS, conductorConductor Timothy Weiss has gained critical acclaim for his performances and brave, adventurous programming throughout the United States and abroad. His repertoire in contemporary music is vast and fearless, including masterworks, recent compositions, and an impressive number of premieres and commissions. Recently, he was the recipient of the Adventurous Programming Award from the American Symphony Orchestra League. As a guest conductor, upcoming and recent engagements include the Artic Philharmonic in Bodø, Norway, Orchestra 2001 in Philadelphia, the Eastman Broadband Ensemble, the BBC Scottish Symphony, the Britten Sinfonia in London, and the Melbourne Symphony in Australia.

In his 23 years as music director of the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, he has brought the group to a level of artistry and virtuosity in performance that rivals the finest new music groups. During his tenure with the CME at Oberlin, he has

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REBEKAH HELLER, bassoon, contrabassoon Praised for her “flair” and “deftly illuminated” performances by the New York Times, bassoonist Rebekah Heller is a uniquely dynamic musician, and a fiercely passionate advocate for the bassoon. Called an “impressive solo bassoonist” by the New Yorker, she is tirelessly committed to collaborating with composers to expand the modern repertoire for the instrument. Her debut solo album of world premiere recordings, 100 names, has been called “pensive and potent” by the New York Times and was featured in the ArtsBeat Classical Playlist of the same publication. As a member of the renowned International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Rebekah has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and the Nagoya Philharmonic and has performed solo and chamber music all over the world.

ROSS KARRE, percussionRoss Karre (b. 1983 in Battle Creek, MI) is a percussionist and temporal artist based in New York City. His primary focus is the combination of media selected from classical percussion, electronics, theater, moving image, visual art, and lighting design. After completing his Doctorate in Music at UCSD with Steven Schick, Ross formalized his intermedia studies with a Master of Fine Arts from UCSD. He is a percussionist and director of production for the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) and performs regularly with red fish blue fish, Third Coast Percussion (Chicago), the National Gallery of Art New Music Ensemble (DC), and many others. Ross is the founder and owner of a growing collective called rKAD, specializing in video and audio recordings of performing arts.

LEVY LORENZO, percussion, sound engineer Levy I. Lorenzo works at the intersection of music, art, and technology. On an international scale, his body of work spans custom electronics design, sound engineering, instrument building, installation art, free improvisation, and classical percussion. With a primary focus on inventing new instruments, he prototypes, composes, and performs new electronic music. A core member of the acclaimed International Contemporary

JENNIFER CURTIS, violinJennifer Curtis’s second solo concert at Carnegie Hall was described by the New York Times as “one of the gutsiest” recital programs. An improviser, composer, and multi-instrumentalist, she has also performed as a soloist with the Simon Bolivar Orchestra in Venezuela, appeared at El Festival de las Artes Esénias in Peru, been featured violinist honoring the late composer George Enescu in his homeland of Romania, collaborated with musical shamen of the Andes, and exchanged music, teaching and performing with Kurdish refugees in Turkey. Curtis just finished up a busy summer as composer and performer with the Paperhand Puppet Intervention and recently performed in Rwanda for the Ubumuntu Festival, created to process and heal from genocide. She is currently artist in residence at Haw River Ballroom’s Culture Mill in Saxapahaw NC, teaches at Duke University and will travel to India this winter to collaborate and compose for Nrityagram Dance Company.

GARETH FLOWERS, trumpet Gareth Flowers is an American trumpeter, producer, and composer from Arlington, Virginia. He moved to the New York City area in 2000 to attend the Juilliard School. While there he focused on large ensemble playing, became involved in contemporary music, and joined the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) in 2003. He also studied music technology and began writing and recording electro-acoustic music. Since then, he has played guest principal trumpet with the San Francisco Symphony, National Symphony, Seoul Philharmonic, American Symphony Orchestra, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, and held a temporary position in the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. He has recorded for John Adams, Philip Glass, David Byrne, Andy Bloch, Matthias Pintscher, Wet Ink, and ICE. He has released numerous trumpet and electronics recordings both with the Batteries Duo and also solo on his own label SoundFlowers Sunshine ltd, and Tandem Tapes. He runs an eclectic trumpet ensemble called The Practical Trumpet Society.

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CORY SMYTHE, pianoPianist Cory Smythe works actively in new, classical, and improvised music. He has performed widely, making appearances as soloist and chamber musician at the Darmstadt International Festival for New Music, the Bang on a Can Marathon in New York City, the Green Mill jazz club in Chicago, and the Mostly Mozart festival at Lincoln Center. In recent seasons, Smythe has played alongside violinist Hilary Hahn in concerts throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia. A Washington Post review of the duo’s performance at the Kennedy Center praised Smythe for “the ferocity and finesse of his technique.” Their Grammy-winning album, In 27 Pieces: the Hilary Hahn Encores, documents Hahn’s diverse collection of newly commissioned encores for violin and piano.

CHES SMITH, percussion, drum set Ches Smith’s primary focus has been on composing for his working ensembles, The Ches Smith Trio (with pianist Craig Taborn and violist Mat Maneri) and Three Arches (with saxophonists Tim Berne and Tony Malaby, guitarist Mary Halvorson and Andrea Parkins on accordion and electronics), as well as for his solo project Congs for Brums. He has toured extensively in Europe and North America with all of these projects. Smith is also highly regarded as a side musician, playing drums and percussion with Marc Ribot, Tim Berne, Mary Halvorson, Terry Riley, the Dave Douglas and Lee Konitz quintet, Darius Jones, Matt Mitchell, John Zorn and many others.

ALICE TEYSSIER, flute A uniquely gifted advocate for new music, Alice Teyssier seeks out collaborations with composers to develop unique and transcendent works for the flute and for the singing voice. She has given residencies for composers and performers of new music at such universities as Harvard, Leeds, Huddersfield, and SUNY-Buffalo. Born in Australia, Alice has lived in France, the United States, and Germany and continues to perform on all continents. She has earned degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory, and the Conservatoire de Strasbourg. She joined ICE’s artist roster in 2014.

Ensemble (ICE), he fulfills multiple roles as live sound engineer, electronic musician, and percussionist. Levy earned degrees as Master of Engineering from Cornell University, and Doctor of Musical Arts from Stony Brook University. He teaches Emerging Media at CUNY College of Technology and Music Technology at Hunter College. [levylorenzo.com]

JOHN MINOR, timpaniJohn Minor graduated from Belmont High School in Massachusetts, which is situated ten minutes outside of Boston. He also studied at New England Conservatory’s Prep school. At NEC prep he had been a part of the Youth Symphony and the Youth Philharmonic Orchestra, and accompanied YPO on tour to Argentina as a percussionist. Minor’s previous teachers have been Tom Shmidt, Dr. Patrick Roulet (at New England Music Camp), Salvatore Rabbio, and Neil Grover. At Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Minor has played in many different settings, from the orchestra to the contemporary ensemble groups. In addition, he has gained chamber experience working with his peers on countless percussion ensemble works, and has premiered many works with the Oberlin Percussion Group. Coming to the end of his time at Oberlin, Minor’s ambition is to continue his education into grad school, pursuing a Masters in percussion performance.

JOSHUA RUBIN, clarinet, bass clarinetJoshua Rubin is the founding clarinetist and the co-Artistic Director of the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), where he oversees the creative direction of more than one hundred concerts per season worldwide. The New York Times has praised him as, “incapable of playing an inexpressive note.” Joshua has worked closely with many of the prominent composers of our time. He can be heard on the Nonesuch, Kairos, New Focus, Mode, Cedille, Naxos, Bridge, New Amsterdam, and Tzadik labels. His album There Never Is No Light, available on ICE’s Tundra label, highlights music that uses technology to capture the human engagement of performer and listener.

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99% (The Occupy Wall Street Collaborative Film), and Cristina Ibarra’s Las Marthas.

ANJALI PANJABI, creative producer (India)Anjali Panjabi is a celebrated producer and filmmaker, based in Mumbai. Panjabi’s most recent project is The Invite (Director Sabiha Sumar). Panjabi was the Executive Producer on Good Morning Karachi (Director: Sabiha Sumar) and Line Producer on God’s Room (Director Mira Nair) which premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Panjabi was the consulting producer on Zinda Bhag (Director Meenu and Farjad Nabi), Pakistan’s entry to the Foreign Films Oscar in 2013. Anjali began her collaboration with Prashant Bhargava as casting director on his feature Patang.

NIKHIL MELNECHUK, creative producer (Radha shoot)Nikhil Melnechuk is a producer/director, who studied Sociology at Wesleyan University and Film/TV at National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India. His company, Melnechuk Williams, produces intelligent narrative and documentary films internationally. Melnechuk programs shorts for the Black Bear Film Festival in Milford, PA.

PRODUCTION

SVEN FURBERG, video engineer New York City based, Swedish-born Sven Furberg has been working in the fields of video engineering and projection since 1980, specializing in live events and complex video projection system installation and operation. The majority of Furberg’s work is in the high-end media and commercial sectors, where he has provided services for ABC and NBC News, IBM, AT&T, Citibank, and a long list of other Fortune 500 companies, in venues ranging from the Jacob Javitz Center to Radio City Music Hall, to the sound stages of New York City and across the US. Furberg works nationally and internationally on political conventions and other live events, including intricate projection on building exteriors. Furberg has worked on shows in the creative/performing arts as well, including DJ Spooky’s “Sinfonia Antarctica” world tour, and has engineered video at

RANDY ZIGLER, bass Randall Zigler began his bass studies as a high school student in St. Louis, Missouri, and attended Oberlin College shortly thereafter, where he received undergraduate degrees in bass performance and mathematics. He has since received a Master of Music degree from Boston University, and continues to freelance as an orchestral and chamber musician throughout New England. Recently appointed Principal Bass of the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Mr. Zigler is also principal of the New Hampshire Symphony Orchestra and performs regularly with the Rhode Island Philharmonic and New Bedford Symphony Orchestra, among others. In addition, he continues to pursue his goals in the performance of contemporary works, having performed with a wide variety of ensembles and premiered solo works by ICE members Du Yun and David Reminick. He has been a member of ICE since its inception.

FILM

ANNA GEORGE, ‘Radha’Anna George is New York-based actress. She is currently on Royal Pains and has performed guest roles on Law and Order, Rules of Engagement, Criminal Minds, Sex and the City, 3 Lbs, and The Jury. Her film credits include: The Lovely Bones directed by Peter Jackson and Syriana directed by Stephen Gaghan. She has also drawn rave reviews for her work on several Off Broadway productions including Sakharam Binder and Terrorism directed by Will Frears. Ms.George is a graduate of Wellesley College and Columbia Business School.

CRAIG MARSDEN, director of photographyCraig Marsden is a filmmaker living in New York. He is a recipient of grants, fellowships and residencies from The MacDowell Colony, The Blue Mountain Center, and Experimental Television Center among others. His films have screened at over thirty festivals, including Sundance and Clermont-Ferrand, and won prizes at prizes SXSW, Chicago International Film Festival, and Mexico City. As a cameraman, he has shot for many documentaries, including As Nutayuneãn—We Still Live Here,

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INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE

“America’s foremost new-music group”—Alex Ross

“Bracing, illuminating, reassuring”—Financial Times

“The new gold standard for new music”—The New Yorker

“Extraordinary”—New York Times

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) is an artist collective committed to transforming the way music is created and experienced. As performer, curator, and educator, ICE explores how new music intersects with communities across the world. The ensemble’s 35 members are featured as soloists, chamber musicians, commissioners, and collaborators with the foremost musical artists of our time. Emerging composers have anchored ICE’s programming since its founding in 2001, and the group’s recordings and digital platforms highlight the many voices that weave music’s present.

ICE has received the American Music Center’s Trailblazer Award and the Chamber Music America/ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, and was also named Musical America Worldwide’s Ensemble of the Year 2014. The group currently serves as artists in residence at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts’ Mostly Mozart Festival, and previously

live events for worldwide broadcast, such as Al Janadriya in Saudi Arabia and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle tour of South America. Having played electric bass with NYC post punk group The Ordinaires, he now plays the mandolin with various musical groups.

RUS SNELLING, lighting designerAn Australian artist with a career continuing over 25 years, Rus has worked as a lighting and set designer, a production, stage and tour manager, technical director, and fire sculptor with arts organizations and on events around the world ranging from intimate theatrical works, shows on Broadway and London’s West End, to large scale indoor and outdoor festivals and Olympic ceremonies. He has worked with artists Merce Cunningham, Laurie Anderson, John Leguizamo, Philip Glass, and Brian Eno, among many others, and on projects and tours in Australia, USA, Canada, Europe, Asia, and South America. Rus is currently production manager and lighting designer at Oz Arts Inc in Nashville, TN. Anything is Possible!

STEPHEN COHEN, executive producerSteve Cohen is president of Music + Art Management. His current client roster includes pianist/composer/band leader Vijay Iyer; novelist/poet/writer/singer Carl Hancock Rux; singer/songwriter David Wilcox; and jazz/new music vocalist Theo Bleckmann. In his role as artist manager and producer, Cohen has led productions at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Lincoln Center (NYC), the Spoleto Festival USA, and other venues. He has taught music business courses at NYU, UNC Asheville, and Western Carolina University, and has been a guest lecturer at Harvard College and Northeastern University. Over the years, he has been involved in the careers of DJ Spooky, Laurie Anderson, Bobby McFerrin, The Crash Test Dummies, David Byrne, Bela Fleck, Vinicius Cantuaria, and numerous others. For recreation, Cohen, who received his B.A. in music at the State University of NY at Albany, plays Fender bass in a variety of bands.

Special thanks to Jon Chu at Music + Art Management.

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Harmony Foundation, The Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation, The Irving Harris Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, The Casement Fund, the BMI Foundation, a CityArts Grant from the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs & Special Events, as well as public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the New York State Council for the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature, and the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and with the friendly support of the Ernst von Siemens Musikstiftung. Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE.

UPCOMING PERFORMANCES

CIM/CWRU Joint Music Program Wednesday, November 2, 6:00 p.m. CMA Galleries

Outstanding conservatory musicians present mixed programs of chamber music amid the museum’s collections for a unique and intimate experience—concerts that regularly feature instruments from the museum’s keyboard collection. From standard repertoire to unknown gems, these early-evening, hour-long performances are a delightful after-work encounter or the start of a night out. Free, no tickets required. cma.org/cim

led a five-year residency at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. ICE has been featured at the Ojai Music Festival since 2015, and has appeared at festivals abroad such as Acht Brücken Cologne and Musica nova Helsinki. Other recent performance stages include the Park Avenue Armory, The Stone, ice floes at Greenland’s Diskotek Sessions, and boats on the Amazon River.

New initiatives include OpenICE, made possible with lead funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which offers admission-free concerts and related programming wherever ICE performs, and online through DigitICE, the ensemble’s streaming video library. OpenICE enables a working process with composers to enfold in public settings, and audiences are included in the spark of musical invention. ICE’s First Page program is a commissioning consortium that fosters close collaborations between performers, composers, and listeners as new music is developed. EntICE, a side-by-side youth program, places ICE musicians within youth orchestras as they premiere new commissioned works together. Inaugural EntICE partners include Youth Orchestra Los Angeles and The People’s Music School (Chicago). Yamaha Artist Services New York is the exclusive piano provider for ICE.

Read more at iceorg.org.

Claire Chase, Founder | Vanessa Rose, Executive Director | Joshua Rubin, Co-Artistic Director | Ross Karre, Co-Artistic Director | Jacob Greenberg, Director of Recordings and Digital Outreach | Rebekah Heller, Director of Individual Giving | Ryan Muncy, Director of Institutional Giving and Co-Director, OpenICE | Alice Teyssier, Artistic Operations Associate and Co-Director, OpenICE | Maciej Lewandowski, Production Associate | Meredith Morgan, Director of Operations | Levy Lorenzo, Engineer and Technical Director

ICE’s 2016–17 performances and commissioning activities are made possible by the generous support of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Howard Gilman Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, The Paul M. Angell Family Foundation, The Elizabeth F. Cheney Foundation, The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, The Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, The Amphion Foundation, The Pacific

Tri-C PresentsFrom the Buena Vista Social Club: Omara Portuondo 85 Tour with special guests Roberto Fonseca, Anat Cohen and Regina Carter

The great Cuban diva celebrates the impressive sweep of her career with much loved Cuban classics from ‘Besame Mucho’ to ‘Veinte Años.’ A musical feast, full of piquant sabrosura.

Sunday, October 23, 7:00 p.m. Lakewood Civic Auditorium (14110 Franklin Blvd.) Tickets: $35, $25 Call: 216-987-4444

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Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble Saturday, November 5, 2:00 p.m. Gartner Auditorium

Expanding a collaborative partnership with our neighbors down the road, CMA welcomes the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble for a series of compelling programs under the baton of Tim Weiss. Oberlin Conservatory, long a wellspring of contemporary classical music and the birthplace of award-winning chamber groups such as Eighth Blackbird and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), is a treasure in the Northeast Ohio region—in no small part due to the ambitions and success of Weiss. He is the recipient of the Adventurous Programming Award from the American Symphony Orchestra League, and in his 21 years as music director of the Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble has brought the group to a level of artistry and virtuosity in performance that rivals the finest new music groups. Program: Elizabeth Ogonek, Lightenings (2016); Stephen Hartke, Willow Run for Saxophone and 9 players (2016) premiere; and James Macmillan, As Others See Us (1990) $10; CMA members and students, free. cma.org/OCME

Jean-Baptiste Monnot Sunday, November 13, 2:00 p.m. Gartner Auditorium

Jean-Baptiste Monnot is currently the titular organist of the Cavaillé-Coll organ at St. Ouen Church in Rouen. Born in 1984 in France, he started the Conservatoire national de région de Rouen at age 15. He gained entrance to the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique de Paris in 2004, receiving a master’s degree in organ with firstclass honors, then went on to study with Bernhard Haas at the Stuttgart Hochschule für Musik. In 2010–11 Monnot was appointed as artist-in-residence at the Cathedral-Basilica of Saint Louis, King of France, New Orleans. As a soloist, he performs regularly with ensembles and orchestras all over the world. He performs a program entitled “Russian Fireworks,” featuring works by Mussorgsky, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, and Scriabin transcribed for organ. Free; no ticket required. cma.org/monnot

Welcome to the Cleveland Museum of ArtThe Cleveland Museum of Art’s performing arts series brings together thoughtful, fascinating, and beautiful experiences, comprising a concert calendar notable for its boundless multiplicity. This year we look forward to visits from old friends and new, bringing us music from around the globe and spanning many centuries. Here is the place where performance is intended to explore connections of cultures, the heart, the human spirit.

In the galleriesArt and Stories from Mughal India Through October 23, 2016

Elegance and Intrigue: French Society in 18th-Century Prints and Drawings Through November 6, 2016

Myth and Mystique: Cleveland’s Gothic Table Fountain Through February 26, 2017

The Ecstasy of St. Kara: Kara Walker, New Work Through December 31, 2016

Dan Graham/Rocks (at Transformer Station, W. 29th St.) Through December 4, 2016

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CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, October 5, 6:00

FretworkWednesday, October 12, 7:30

Vijay Iyer & International Contemporary EnsembleWednesday, October 19, 7:30

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, November 2, 6:00

Oberlin Contemporary Music EnsembleSaturday, November 5, 2:00

Jean-Baptiste MonnotSunday, November 13, 2:00

Oberlin Contemporary Music EnsembleSunday, December 4, 2:00

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, December 7, 6:00

Francesco D’OrazioMonday, December 9, 7:30

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, January 4, 6:00

The Crossing: David Lang’s LifespanFriday–Sunday, January 6–8

The “Qatsi” TrilogyFriday–Sunday, January 27–29

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, February 1, 6:00

Emmanuel ArakélianSunday, February 19, 2:00

Oberlin Contemporary Music EnsembleSunday, February 26, 2:00

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, March 1, 6:00

QuinceWednesday, March 22, 7:30

Frode Haltli & Emilia AmperWednesday, March 29, 7:30

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, April 5, 6:00

Oberlin Contemporary Music EnsembleSunday, April 9, 2:00

Zakir Hussain & Rahul SharmaWednesday, April 12, 7:30

Jeffrey ZeiglerWednesday, April 26, 7:30

CIM/CWRU Joint Music ProgramWednesday, May 3, 6:00

Brandee Younger & Courtney BryanWednesday, May 10, 7:30

Performing Arts

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These performances are made possible in part by:The P. J. McMyler Musical Endowment Fund The Ernest L. and Louise M. Gartner Fund The Anton and Rose Zverina Music Fund

The Frank and Margaret Hyncik Memorial Fund

The Adolph Benedict and Ila Roberts Schneider Fund

The Arthur, Asenath, and Walter H. Blodgett Memorial Fund

The Dorothy Humel Hovorka Endowment Fund

The Albertha T. Jennings Musical Arts Fund

DEPARTMENT OF PERFORMING ARTS, MUSIC, AND FILMThe Cleveland Museum of Art 11150 East Boulevard Cleveland, Ohio 44106–1797

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Wednesday, March 2, 2016

JACK Quartet