Tonight and tomorrow are the premiere performances!  Here is some preview press we’ve received.

from this week’s issue of Time Out New York

from this week’s issue of the New Yorker magazine:

INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ENSEMBLE: “NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES AND OTHER LIVE ACTS”

Some artists communicate their intentions in neon lights, lest we miss them. “Thirteen Near-Death Experiences,” a new piece of music theatre by Corey Dargel, seems to be a departure from his wellestablished (and cunningly made) mock-trivial art-pop style. It will be the major offering in a concert by the stunningly expert new-music band that also features three other world-première scores, by the young composer-performers Stephen Lehman, Nathan Davis, and Mario Diaz de León. (P.S. 122, First Ave. at 9th St. 212-352-3101. May 22-23 at 8.)

from today’s NY Times:

ICE (Friday) The centerpiece of this program by the energetic ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) is “Thirteen Near-Death Experiences” — a work about delusions and hypochondria — by the inventive young composer Corey Dargel. Music by Nathan Davis, Mario Diaz de León and Stephen Lehman fill out the program. At 8 p.m., Performance Space 122, 150 First Avenue, at Ninth Street, East Village, (212) 477-5829, ps122.org; $20; $15 for students and 65+. (Allan Kozinn)