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Venue Information

Rose Theater
Frederick P. Rose Hall,
Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center
Broadway at 60th Street
(Time Warner Center)

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International Contemporary Ensemble

Monday, August 16, 2010 at 7:30
Rose Theater

Using transcriptions of counterpoint from Bach’s The Art of Fugue as a jumping-off point, the International Contemporary Ensemble explores the transparent and colorful polyphony of George Benjamin (who uses the hiccup-like medieval hochetus technique), the theatrical polyphony of Harrison Birtwistle, and Helmut Lachenmann’s Mouvement, “a whirring, rasping, ricocheting maze of new, beautifully fashioned sounds” (The New York Times).

International Contemporary Ensemble
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
with special guest Pierre-Laurent Aimard

PURCELL (trans. Benjamin): Fantasia VII
BENJAMIN: Antara
BIRTWISTLE: Selections from Bach Measures
BIRTWISTLE: Slow Frieze
BACH (arr. Berio): Contrapunctus XIX, from The Art of Fugue
LACHENMANN: Mouvement

This performance is part of Bach & Polyphonies.

Performance begins promptly at the scheduled time.
There is no late seating.