{"id":858,"date":"2010-02-15T10:00:22","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T18:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/?p=858"},"modified":"2010-03-01T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T21:06:14","slug":"ice-launches-new-series-on-and-off-the-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/2010\/02\/15\/ice-launches-new-series-on-and-off-the-page\/","title":{"rendered":"ICE launches new series, On and Off the Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-859\" title=\"wolff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wolff-135x135.jpg\" alt=\"wolff\" width=\"135\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wolff-135x135.jpg 135w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wolff-270x270.jpg 270w, http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/wolff.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 135px) 100vw, 135px\" \/> Last night I went to see fellow <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iceorg.org\/\">ICE<\/a> (International Contemporary Ensemble)\u00c2\u00a0 musicians perform the first of a series of concerts called <em>On and Off the Page <\/em>with the venerable Christian Wolff at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.issueprojectroom.org\">Issue Project Room<\/a>. I am so happy that ICE has launched such a great project along with the many other things ICE does. According to our website, <em>On and Off the Page<\/em> &#8220;is a series illuminating music that breaks down the barriers between written and improvised music.&#8221; As a musician that has been improvising and composing more and more, I am excited to see an organized effort to bring attention to this dynamic area of making live performance.\u00c2\u00a0 What&#8217;s odd is that improvisation has been a big part of music-making for centuries but classical music has somehow evolved to be a genre that is extremely focused on &#8220;the printed page.&#8221; Many of the canonic classical composers (Bach, Mozart)\u00c2\u00a0 were all improvisers\/performers\/composers. ..not to mention the invited improvisatory nature of a lot of Renaissance music that existed even before them.\u00c2\u00a0 Somehow, through the years, we have become so specialized that the idea of branching out to other roles of music-making is new again to our generation. \u00c2\u00a0 I have high hopes for my ICE buddies on this series! The next concert\u00c2\u00a0 will be on March 16th at Le Poisson Rouge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I went to see fellow ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble)\u00c2\u00a0 musicians perform the first of a series of concerts called On and Off the Page with the venerable Christian Wolff at Issue Project Room. I am so happy that ICE has launched such a great project along with the many other things ICE does. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,11,7,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=858"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/858\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.phyllischen.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}