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Happy Birthday Mr. Cage!
Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 7:30pm | Austin TX
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Event Details
line upon line percussion, Rosalyn Nansky (dancer), and Michelle Schumann (toy pianist) perform works by John Cage.
Thursday, September 16, 7:30pm at First Unitarian Church, Tickets: $10
Program Notes
JOHN CAGE
(1912-1992)
In this year’s installment, Schumann and Co. will present works from each of Cage’s most productive decades. From the 40’s: Credo in Us for percussion and piano, and the Suite for Toy Piano; from the 50’s, Cage’s iconic ‘silence’ piece 4’33”; the 60’s is represented in Cartridge Music for one to forty performers using up to twenty record players, instruments or objects amplified by means of cartridges or contact microphones, or for two or more performers using amplified piano or amplified cymbal. The 70’s and 80’s show Cage using nature’s instruments: Inlets for three performers each using four amplified, water-filled conch shells [3 very large, 3 medium large, 3 medium size, 3 small]), a performer using a blown conch shell, and the sound of pine cones burning; and But what about the noise of crumpling paper… for three to ten percussionists each using at least two only slightly resonant instruments, also involving water, paper, etc. The 90’s demonstrates Cage in his obsessive use of number pieces: Three2 for three percussionists each using any three instruments.
Program
Three2 (1991)
Suite for Toy Piano: I. (1948) superimposed with excerpts from “Art is Either a Complaint or Do Something Else” (1988) for speaker
But what about the noise of crumpling paper…(1985)
Suite for Toy Piano: II. (1948) superimposed with excerpts from “Art is Either a Complaint or Do Something Else”(1988) for speaker
Inlets (1977)
Suite for Toy Piano: III. (1948) superimposed with excerpts from “Art is Either a Complaint or Do Something Else”(1988) for speaker
Cartridge Music (1960)
Suite for Toy Piano: IV. (1948) superimposed with excerpts from “Art is Either a Complaint or Do Something Else”(1988) for speaker
4’33” (1952)
Suite for Toy Piano: V. (1948) superimposed with excerpts from “Art is Either a Complaint or Do Something Else”(1988) for speaker
Credo in Us (1942)
line upon line percussion
Adam Bedell • Cullen Faulk • Matthew Teodori
Rosalyn Nansky, dancer • Michelle Schumann, piano (toy and otherwise)
