Ice Field

 ( Compositions By Henry Brant ) 

Ice Field is a musical composition by Henry Brant, for large groups and organ, commissioned by Other Minds for a December 2001 premiere by the San Francisco Symphony. It was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Music,Hill, Brad (2006). American Popular Music: Classical, p. 37. . and premiered on December 12 at Davies Symphony Hall in San Francisco.Anon., "Brant's Field Wins Pulitzer" (2002). Billboard Vol. 114, No. 16 (April 20), p. 13. ISSN 0006-2510. A, "'spatial narrative,'" or, "spatial organ concerto,"(2008). Musicworks, no. 100, 101, or 102, p.41. The Music Gallery. and thus an example of Brant's use of spatial music, the work utilizes more than 100 players.Gagné, Nicole V. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music. .

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 ice field in the North Atlantic."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.