Ice Field is a musical composition by Henry Brant, for large orchestral groups and organ, commissioned by Other Minds for a December 2001 premiere by the San Francisco Symphony.[1] It was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Music,[2][3] and premiered on December 12 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.[4] A, "'spatial narrative,'"[4] or, "spatial organ concerto,"[5] and thus an example of Brant's use of spatialization, the work utilizes more than 100 players.[6]
It was the strong feeling of the Jury that the Brant score was an extraordinarily powerful statement, the culmination of a life's work. His control of diverse instrumental groups in a spatial environment coalesces into powerful and coherent musical expression. Here, Brant, in his ninth decade, has refined his techniques of spatial music, embracing all of his experience to produce a remarkable vision, with increased vitality and creative imagination.
— The Pulitzer Prize Board[7]
The piece was, "inspired by his experience, as a 12-year-old in 1926, of crossing the Atlantic by ship, which navigated carefully through a large field of icebergs in the North Atlantic."[8]
^"Henry Brant: Ice Field". Other Minds. Retrieved February 15, 2024.
^Uncle Dave Lewis. Henry Brant at AllMusic. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
^Hill, Brad (2006). American Popular Music: Classical, p. 37. ISBN 978-0-8160-5311-7.
^ abAnon., "Brant's Field Wins Pulitzer" (2002). Billboard Vol. 114, No. 16 (April 20), p. 13. ISSN 0006-2510.
^(2008). Musicworks, no. 100, 101, or 102, p.41.[full citation needed] The Music Gallery.
^Gagné, Nicole V. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music. ISBN 978-0-8108-6765-9.
^Fischer, Heinz Dietrich (2010). The Pulitzer Prize Winners for Music, p. 250. ISBN 978-3-631-59608-1.
^Allan Kozinn (2008). [Obituary]. The New York Times (April 30), quoted in 21st Century Music, Volume 15, Issue 6, pp. 10–11, quotation on p. 10.
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