Ice Field

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://www.otherminds.org/henry-brant-ice-field/|title=Henry Brant: Ice Field|website=Other Minds|access-date=February 15, 2024}} It was awarded the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Music,{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=mn0000150502|title=Henry Brant|tab=biography|author=Uncle Dave Lewis|accessdate=20 April 2019}}Hill, Brad (2006). American Popular Music: Classical, p. 37. {{ISBN|978-0-8160-5311-7}}. 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.{{Full citation needed|date=November 2011|reason=These are three separate issues of Musicworks, and each one has a page 41 in it. All articles are titled and signed. Which one is it?}} The Music Gallery. and thus an example of Brant's use of spatialization, the work utilizes more than 100 players.Gagné, Nicole V. (2011). Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music. {{ISBN|978-0-8108-6765-9}}.

{{quote|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 BoardFischer, Heinz Dietrich (2010). The Pulitzer Prize Winners for Music, p. 250. {{ISBN|978-3-631-59608-1}}.}}

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."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.