الوسم: John Cage
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Goings On About Town, August 23, 2021.
The Goings On About Town section in The New Yorker has begun a gradual return to its conventional format, with live, in-person events resuming their place among the album reviews and online events that replaced them throughout pandemic quarantine months. (Click on the image to enlarge it, or hit the link to read the text…
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Juilliard Percussion: Constructions and a Constellation, Feb. 3.
Jan. 20 update: As confirmed by a Juilliard representative, this concert is happening in the Juilliard School's Peter Jay Sharp Theatre, not at Alice Tully Hall. The Sharp Theatre is a smaller space, which means better proximity but less capacity. So if you're interested in tickets, don't delay… and you'll find them only at the…
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Avant Music Festival at the Wild Project, February 16, 2013
Matoaka Little Eagle, Cleek Schrey, Mary MacKenzie and Jessica Schmitz, by Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times Avant Music Festival at the Wild Project, February 16, 2013The New York Times, Feb. 20, 2013 Last month I was lucky enough to get to hear a live performance of John Cage's Apartment House 1776 as part of the…
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So Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, December 19, 2012
Grey Mcmurray with So Percussion, by Sara Krulwich/The New York Times So Percussion at the Brooklyn Academy of MusicThe New York Times, Dec. 21, 2012 A review of Where (we) Live, the latest multimedia beguilement from So Percussion, who use vivid imagination and a solid grounding in John Cage's music to create a thoughtful meditation…
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International Contemporary Ensemble at Miller Theatre, September 20, 2012
International Contemporary Ensemble, by Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times International Contemporary Ensemble at Miller Theatre, September 20, 2012The New York Times, Sept. 22, 2012 “Credit goes to the International Contemporary Ensemble…for finding a new and illuminating context in which to position Cage, by juxtaposing his music with a benchmark serialist composition by Pierre Boulez”…
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Phil Kline’s dreamcitynine at Lincoln Center, August 3, 2012
Phil Kline's dreamcitynine, by Richard Termine/The New York Times Phil Kline's dreamcitynine at Lincoln Center, August 3, 2012The New York Times, August 6, 2012 You can still hear the 60 stories Phil Kline commissioned for dreamcitynine, his intriguing and impressive tribute to John Cage (and to Indeterminacy in specific), at Lincoln Center through…
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Legacy tour.
"Avant-Garde Dancing Feet, Tickling Composers' Minds"The New York Times, March 18, 2011 An article about the making of Music for Merce, a newish 10-CD box set issued by the invaluable New World record label. The box is devoted to a well-chosen cross-section of the myriad musical scores that came into being through the auspices of…
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Wonderland in Alice.
"At Tully Hall, the Norm Is a Festival"The New York Times, February 20, 2011 A very short preview of Lincoln Center's Tully Scope Festival, which celebrates the diverse range of things that Alice Tully Hall already does well, while also suggesting some of the ways in which Lincoln Center is trying to make better use…
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Institutionalized.
Stockhausen and Boulez at Darmstadt in 1962. Photo from The Guardian. The Week Ahead: Nov. 28-Dec. 4The New York Times, November 28, 2010 As plugged in this week's Arts & Leisure, the fine folks who bring you Darmstadt "Classics of the Avant-Garde" events sporadically throughout the year will open their third-annual Darmstadt Essential Repertoire festival…