Nancy Ives x AUXART
AUXART is a play on the idea of using an installation space and large scale structural sculpture to amplify various creative inputs across artistic disciplines.
Building 5
This blended sculptural and audio setting was the outcome of AUXART creator Philip Krohn’s 9 week residency in Building 5, Portland’s site-specific installation facility. All Classical Portland facilitated an artistic collaboration between Krohn and Nancy on Saturday, June 12th, 2021.
As an exclamation point and project finale, Nancy Ives played her cello from the heart of the sculpture, combining the work of Bach with works of her own composition that she felt were harmonically tuned to the spirit and feeling of the sculptural environment.
The wood structure was made from a local millworks’ cast-off saw rips, passing along the unused material to various artists and builders for other projects. On June 14, 2021 the sculpture was disassembled and recycled.
Program
Prelude from Suite for cello and Vocal Obligato — Nancy Ives
Prelude from Suite in G Major for Violoncello Solo — J.S. Bach
Allemande from Suite for cello and Vocal Obligato — Nancy Ives
Allemande from Suite in G Major for Voloncello Solo — J.S. Bach
Sarabande! from Suite for Cello and Vocal Obligato — Nancy Ives
Sarabande from Suite in G Major for Voloncello Solo — J.S. Bach
Celilo Fisherman — Nancy Ives, poem by Ed Edmo (used with permission)
On the Root Glacier — Nancy Ives
Sarabande by Nancy Ives, from her solo program at the Building 5 sculpture. Courtesy of All Classical Portland.
To the River
Nancy Ives curated this program alongside the Portland Cello Project (David Eby, Heather Blackburn, and Justin Kagan) as part of AUXART’s To The River sculpture and sound art residency at Zidell Yards in 2022. Audience and cellists experienced together the journey from asphalt to river through a magical waveform sculpture made entirely of recycled materials.
With a new cello quartet written for the occasion by Nancy, the program also featured an eclectic mix of music inspired by and evocative of rivers, water and its various forms, the natural world, and the people who depend on waterways.
To The River is focused on the way that the Willamette River and rivers in general connect us across geographies, time and ideas about difference through shared networks of sustenance.
Program
To the River (World Premiere) — Nancy Ives
Traumerei — Robert Schumann, arr. K. Krantz
Des pas sur la neige — Claude Debussy, arr. Charles Jacot
Shall We Gather at the River — Traditional hymn
Celtic Passage — David Eby
The Swan — Camille Saint-Saens, arr. Marian Drake
Blackbird — Paul McCartney/John Lennon, arr. Caroline McCaskey
Bittersweet — David Eby
Queen Anne’s Lace — Peter Schickele
Sarabande
Minuet
Gigue
Aria
Toccata
To a Wild Rose — Edward MacDowell, arr. Wolfgang Birtel
Shenandoah — Traditional, arr. Nancy Ives
Celilo Fisherman — Nancy Ives, poem by Ed Edmo
…black snow, dark ocean… — Nancy Ives
“…crystal tide forever…” — Paul Brantley
The water is wide (trio arrangement) — Traditional, adapted by Nancy Ives
A Winter’s Willow — Ralph Vaughan Williams, arr. Ronald C. Dishinger
The Water is Wide — Traditional, arr. Cindy Blevins
