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Reviews, features and coverage spanning Dan Barrett and the International Street Cannibals.
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Press & Reviews
A chronological selection of articles, reviews, interviews and features, from recent coverage back through the ensemble’s earlier projects.
Forward
May 26, 2017
Air Schoenberg: Connecting Flights
…ensemble performed a program, called “Air Schoenberg: Connecting Flights,” at St. Marks Church in the Bowery that centered around Schoenberg’s quartet. As they write in the program notes, the music of the evening focused on “compositions that were key to Schoenberg’s growth, and later ones effected [sic] by this revolutionary work” including works by “Schoenberg’s mentors and influential figures of the canon Zemlinsky, Brahms, and Schubert), students (Berg, Webern and Korngold) and students of students…”
May 25, 2017
Air Schoenberg: Connecting Flights
..an invitation that took us straight to the heart of Romantic passion in all its grandeur and seriousness, complete with wild black hair and red poppies as striking visual touches. Still from early 20th century Vienna, Anton Webern’s intimate 5 songs from Der siebente Ring, the first foray into atonality of Schoenberg’s student, beautifully blossomed while celebrating life and nature with attractive melodic lines and subtle poetic undertones.
Concerto.Net
March 23, 2017
Tone-Rows By Any Other Name...
Here, though, it was given an absolutely ferocious performance by the stunning Uzbek violinist Anna Tsukervanik. This was not the language of spaces, but of sheer emotional anger, the harmonics, the pizzicati the sinuous bowings given a language all their own.
New York Times
March 15, 2017
International Street Cannibals, Feasting on Schoenberg
Music history doesn’t have many neat watershed moments, but a pivotal work in the career of Schoenberg — and the development of Western music — was his String Quartet No. 2 (Op. 10), written when he was shaken by personal trauma. The enterprising new-music ensemble International Street Cannibals takes this quartet as fodder for an evening
New York Classical Review
February 08, 2016
The International Street Cannibals provide a Debussy-inspired feast
A prime exhibit in the case could be the excellent concert given Sunday afternoon at St. Mark’s Church in-the-Bowery by the uniquely named ensemble International Street Cannibals. ICS played new and recent music…
New York Daily News
April 23, 2015
Get ready to rumble: Strike! brings together boxing and Bach at Gleason's Gym
Welcome to Strike!, a unique event that will bring together the sweet science with Bach, Mozart, and original compositions penned by ISC founder Dan Barrett and others. It promises to be a really different way to spend a Saturday night.
April 20, 2015
Strike! On BK TV
BK TV interviews Dan Barrett, Director of The International Street Cannibals and Peitro D’Alessio of Gleason’s GYM.
Brooklyn Press
March 15, 2013
Striking a chord: Boxing and chamber music duke it out at Gleason’s
The event called “Strike!” is a novel combination of music, dance, and exhibition fighting from a pack of Gleason’s younger boxers.
DNA Info
April 15, 2013
Flutes, Violins, Belly Dancers and Boxing Fuse at Gleason's Gym in DUMBO
“Strike!” is exemplary of the purpose of The International Street Cannibals. It was founded in 2005 by seasoned musicians and composers to create “a laboratory for ritual and artistic expression that defies assumptions regarding performance spaces and audiences.”
The Villager
March 14, 2013
Three Rounds of Boxing
Since 2005, the maverick collective of well-traveled composers and instrumentalists have merged their new and classical repertoire with the work of athletes, singers, dancers and videographers — for performances at St. Mark’s in-the-Bowery, the HOWL! Festival, (Le) Poisson Rouge and the Brooklyn anchor location of Gleason’s Gym.
Wall Street Journal
March 13, 2013
This Ring Cycle Comes With Gloves
In this corner—weighing in at approximately 10 pounds, from parts unknown but presumably in the trunk of a tree—a cello! A recent afternoon at Gleason’s Gym in Dumbo offered the unusual sight: musician Dan Barrett in the ring, up against the ropes and working his hands, sending sonorous notes…
This Week in New York
March 13, 2013
Strike!
The best boxing matches are like vibrant dances, the sights and sounds coming together in exciting yet violent ways. On March 16, New York City’s own International Street Cannibals, a new music collective whose goals include bringing contemporary and classical music to new performance venues, educating young audiences, expanding the instrument repertoire, and putting together unique collaborations…
The L Magazine
March 13, 2013
Where Classical Music Meets Boxing
a mixture of chamber music, dance and boxing that will be performed at famous Gleason’s Gym in DUMBO. We spoke to ISC director Dan Barrett about the event—how he convinced the boxing gym to sign on, how boxing relates to music, and how dance pulls it all together.
NY1
March 11, 2013
Chamber Musicians Bring A Whole New Ring To Brooklyn Boxing Gym
In one ring, there’s music and dancing. All of the elements are timed to either be the length of a boxing round or the rest period between rounds. After a full “bout” concert, goers can turn their attention to another ring…
The Village Voice
March 6, 2013
Strike! Talk about a ring cycle
The sweet science meets sweet sounds when the International Street Cannibals new music collective teams up with boxers from this fabled Dumbo gym. Short sets of three-minute contemporary and vintage chamber pieces…
Feast of Music
October 17, 2012
International Street Cannibals Present Fishy Business
Multimodal music ensemble The International Street Cannibals swam into St. Marks-in-the-Bowery on Sunday night for an eclectic mix of water-themed works.
New York Times
October 15, 2006
Gleason’s Ring Cycle
BOBBING and weaving through the center ring, two young boxers exchanged hooks and jabs at Gleason’s Gym on a recent Saturday. As they duked it out in the famous Dumbo gym, an ensemble of classical musicians upstaged them in an adjacent ring, playing a sweet rendition of Erwin Schulhoff’s Concertino for Flute, Viola and Contrabass, a moody and at times jazzy chamber music piece.