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Randy Gibson | 3 Feb 2011 22:34
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John Cage: An Evolution during the 2011 Avant Music Festival, NYC

Hi Silencers,

I'm very happy to announce the performance, John Cage: An Evolution on February 12th during the 2011 Avant Music Festival at The Wild Project (195 East 3rd Street) in New York City.

Full info on the festival can be found here: http://bit.ly/amf2011

The program:

Dream and In A Landscape performed by Vicky Chow
Song Books performed by Ekmeles
performed concurrently with Indeterminacy as read by Randy Gibson and Music for Piano 4-19 performed by Vicky Chow

For a full description of the chance operations used in the Song Books performance see here

Two5 performed by Gibson and microtonal trombonist William Lang

Pre-sale tickets are on sale now from www.avantmedia.org $12($8 students) - tickets at the door are $15($10)

Also featured on the festival are 

2/11 and 2/19: Randy Gibson's mindbending meditative performance for Just Intonation Toy Organs, Trombone, and Strings Apparitions of The Four Pillars with Their Lowest Additive Primes as limited to the 3rd, 7th, 9th, and 11th New Primes chosen Cyclically, The Toll of Premonition, The Memorial Connector over the Outlying Primal Abyss, and The Mid-Winter Ending

2/17 Duets by Reiko Füting and Nils Vigeland

2/18 the Georges Aperghis opera: Sextuor: L'Origine des èspeces

Full information is here: http://avantmedia.org/amf2011

Thanks!!!

Randy


Randy Gibson

Artistic Director
Avant Media




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Derek Piotr | 3 Feb 2011 22:48
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Fwd: piano drop

music lovers, tim hecker's new record brought forth my awareness of this awful activity; perhaps you'll become moved enough to pen a letter to susan yourself, see below...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Derek Piotr <piotrmain <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:41 PM
Subject: piano drop
To: hockfield <at> mit.edu


hello susan

tim hecker's forthcoming album, as perhaps you are aware ( http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/01/video-tim-hecker-piano-drop ), has brought my attention to the annual ritual you permit on your grounds. being a music lover i find it appalling. as sure as i am that you get dozens of letters from people like me urging you to cease permitting this bizarre rite, i can only hope i am the straw to the camel's back, and that you will finally consider banning this useless activity. tradition aside, do you even see the point of it? even if nothing is done, i'd be interested in your views here.

this link may prove useful: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/04/28/mit_piano_drop_strikes_wrong_chord/

respectfully,
derek crofut



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john saylor | 3 Feb 2011 23:20
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Re: Fwd: piano drop

hi

On Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:48 PM, Derek Piotr <piotrmain <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> music lovers, tim hecker's new record brought forth my awareness of this
> awful activity; perhaps you'll become moved enough to pen a letter to susan
> yourself, see below...

well, i think they're very careful to make sure no humans are injured
during this event. and while i have never been a part of it, my
understanding is that the pianos are always old and broken down, maybe
not working correctly in many ways. so if you imagine a pristine
steinway going over the top, this is incorrect. imagine instead the
beat up upright you saw at in the lounge at a dorm in which many of
the keys do not work, the tuning is abominable, beer is spilled all
over it, ...

and they clean up. and they don't steal the pianos- i think they are donated.

there's plenty of waste in our world. some undergrads destoying what
is probably a hopelessly broken instrument seems relatively benign to
me. yes, it's wasteful and kinda stupid; but these are undergrads.

but everyone is entitled to their own opinion.

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Ed Crooks | 4 Feb 2011 19:26
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Krishnamurti and Cage

Dear all,

I was wondering if anyone had information that would help me date a story 
Cage included in 'Silence' as part of Indeterminacy. The story is on p.269 
and relates to Cage's attendance at a lecture by Jiddu Krishnamurti 
(Krishnamurti lectures on how to listen to a lecture and instructs his 
audience not to take notes. The woman next to Cage is taking notes, the man 
next to her points this out to her. She replies that that is what he just 
said because she has it written down).

Apart from narrowing the range to between c.1933 and 1961, I have been 
unable to find any evidence indicating when this lecture took place (not 
even David Patterson's thesis or the letters of Cage's that I have been 
able to see). Therefore if anyone reading this has any further information 
that might assist me in dating the lecture I would be extremely grateful.

best wishes to all,
Ed Crooks

University of York Department of Music
ejc505 <at> York.ac.uk
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Richard Leigh | 4 Feb 2011 22:03
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Cage's reviews

In the excellent "Bartok and His World" (ed Peter Laki) there's a reference to (and a quotation from) a concert review by Cage, in Modern Music 19 (1942) in which he praises a Bartok composition which most critics treated with contempt. Does anyone know whether Cage's reviews have been republished? It looks as if they could be of great interest.
Richard Leigh

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Louis Goldstein | 4 Feb 2011 22:18
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Re: Cage's reviews

What Bartok composition was it?




On 2/4/2011 4:03 PM, Richard Leigh wrote:
In the excellent "Bartok and His World" (ed Peter Laki) there's a reference to (and a quotation from) a concert review by Cage, in Modern Music 19 (1942) in which he praises a Bartok composition which most critics treated with contempt. Does anyone know whether Cage's reviews have been republished? It looks as if they could be of great interest.
Richard Leigh

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Michael Andrew Doherty | 4 Feb 2011 22:00

Re: Krishnamurti and Cage

This might be it:
http://www.jkrishnamurti.org/krishnamurti-teachings/view-text.php?tid=722&chid=5041&w=take%20notes%20lecture

Best wishes,
Michael Andrew Doherty

> Dear all,
>
> I was wondering if anyone had information that would help me date a story
> Cage included in 'Silence' as part of Indeterminacy. The story is on p.269
> and relates to Cage's attendance at a lecture by Jiddu Krishnamurti
> (Krishnamurti lectures on how to listen to a lecture and instructs his
> audience not to take notes. The woman next to Cage is taking notes, the
> man
> next to her points this out to her. She replies that that is what he just
> said because she has it written down).
>
> Apart from narrowing the range to between c.1933 and 1961, I have been
> unable to find any evidence indicating when this lecture took place (not
> even David Patterson's thesis or the letters of Cage's that I have been
> able to see). Therefore if anyone reading this has any further information
> that might assist me in dating the lecture I would be extremely grateful.
>
> best wishes to all,
> Ed Crooks
>
> University of York Department of Music
> ejc505 <at> York.ac.uk
>

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Lowell Cross | 5 Feb 2011 20:36

Re: Re: Cage's reviews


On Feb 4, 2011, at 3:18 PM, Louis Goldstein wrote:

What Bartok composition was it? 

On 2/4/2011 4:03 PM, Richard Leigh wrote:
In the excellent "Bartok and His World" (ed Peter Laki) there's a reference to (and a quotation from) a concert review by Cage, in Modern Music 19 (1942) in which he praises a Bartok composition which most critics treated with contempt. Does anyone know whether Cage's reviews have been republished? It looks as if they could be of great interest.
Richard Leigh

Peter Laki quotes Cage:  "The Sonata No. 1 for Violin and Piano by Bartok was good to hear.  In this work ideas seem to be suggested but never grasped, every moment passes just as one begins to realize its presence.  It makes for dreams and visions."  Modern Music 19 (1942), 260.

This quote is in Tibor Tallián's chapter "Bartók's Reception in America, 1940-1945," translated by Peter Laki, p. 118, footnote 43. 

Lowell Cross
Professor of Music, Emeritus
The University of Iowa

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Rod Stasick | 6 Feb 2011 18:13
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Re: Fwd: piano drop

The only problem I have with this event is that it appears
to be part of a tradition. Traditions should go boom like the 
old piano. The only waste that I can see is that it isn't put into
a larger art context - video and/or audio supported as well.
My mind fills with ideas of live and/or studio audio processing.

Annea Lockwood has documented a beautiful sounding piano burning.

As for the comments about music school funding:
shouldn't these people be directing their angst elsewhere?
If someone had given them an old broken-down car,
would they really think that was better than having no car at all?

I'm a music lover too - mostly, a sound lover 
(which is better than being an unsound lover, I suppose ; - ) )

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On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Derek Piotr wrote:

music lovers, tim hecker's new record brought forth my awareness of this awful activity; perhaps you'll become moved enough to pen a letter to susan yourself, see below...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Derek Piotr <piotrmain <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:41 PM
Subject: piano drop
To: hockfield <at> mit.edu


hello susan

tim hecker's forthcoming album, as perhaps you are aware ( http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/01/video-tim-hecker-piano-drop ), has brought my attention to the annual ritual you permit on your grounds. being a music lover i find it appalling. as sure as i am that you get dozens of letters from people like me urging you to cease permitting this bizarre rite, i can only hope i am the straw to the camel's back, and that you will finally consider banning this useless activity. tradition aside, do you even see the point of it? even if nothing is done, i'd be interested in your views here.

this link may prove useful: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/04/28/mit_piano_drop_strikes_wrong_chord/

respectfully,
derek crofut



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Rod Stasick | 6 Feb 2011 22:35
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Re: Fwd: piano drop

I'll add too that "The Piano Drop" cut on the new disc is
probably the least interesting one of the whole release.

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On Feb 3, 2011, at 3:48 PM, Derek Piotr wrote:

music lovers, tim hecker's new record brought forth my awareness of this awful activity; perhaps you'll become moved enough to pen a letter to susan yourself, see below...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Derek Piotr <piotrmain <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 4:41 PM
Subject: piano drop
To: hockfield <at> mit.edu


hello susan

tim hecker's forthcoming album, as perhaps you are aware ( http://www.xlr8r.com/news/2011/01/video-tim-hecker-piano-drop ), has brought my attention to the annual ritual you permit on your grounds. being a music lover i find it appalling. as sure as i am that you get dozens of letters from people like me urging you to cease permitting this bizarre rite, i can only hope i am the straw to the camel's back, and that you will finally consider banning this useless activity. tradition aside, do you even see the point of it? even if nothing is done, i'd be interested in your views here.

this link may prove useful: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2008/04/28/mit_piano_drop_strikes_wrong_chord/

respectfully,
derek crofut



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