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Date(s) - 05/05/2017
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
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Cullen Theater
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“Radhe Radhe is a richly successful creative expression…visually and sonically dazzling collaboration…here’s hoping that many viewers and audiences get a chance to experience Holi through Bhargava and Iyer’s eyes and ears.”
— National Public Radio“[one of] today’s most important pianists… extravagantly gifted… brilliantly eclectic”
— The New Yorker on Vijay Iyer“America’s foremost new-music group”
— The New Yorker on International Contemporary Ensemble
- Prashant Bhargava — film
- Vijay Iyer & Tirtha — music
- International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) — music
- Steven Schick — conductor
In Radhe Radhe: Rites of Holi, composer and pianist Vijay Iyer and filmmaker Prashant Bhargava respond to Stravinsky’s Le Sacré du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) with a new work for chamber ensemble and film.
International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) joins Iyer to perform his shimmering score in live counterpoint with Bhargava’s scintillating cinematic descent into the streets of India for the Hindu Festival of Colors. The result is a ballet of sorts: an encounter between live music and film, between lived experience and myth, the self and the transformed self, winter and spring.