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Product Identifiers
Record LabelWer, Wergo Germany
UPC4010228624724
eBay Product ID (ePID)18070895327
Product Key Features
FormatCD
Release Year1995
GenreClassical
ArtistJohn Cage
Release Title25 Year Retrospective Concert
Dimensions
Item Height0.93 in
Item Weight0.51 lb
Item Length5.53 in
Item Width5.00 in
Additional Product Features
Number of Tracks19
TracksSix Short Inventions for Seven Instruments - Anahid Ajemian/Maro Ajemian/Douglas Allan/Joan Brockway/Melvyn Broiles/Earle Brown/Philip Brown, First Construction in Metal - David Tudor, Imaginary Landscape No.1 - Anahid Ajemian/Maro Ajemian/Douglas Allan/Joan Brockway/Melvyn Broiles/Earle Brown/Philip Brown, The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs - Arline Carmen/John Cage, She Is Asleep - Paul Price/Michael Colgrass/Warren Smith/Philip Brown, She Is Asleep - Arline Carmen/John Cage, Sons ; Interludes: Sons I, Sons ; Interludes: Sons II, Sons ; Interludes: Sons III, Sons ; Interludes: Sons IV, Sons ; Interludes: Interlude, Sons ; Interludes: Sons V, Sons ; Interludes: Sons VI, Sons ; Interludes: Sons VII, Sons ; Interludes: Sons VIII, Sons ; Interludes: Second Interlude, Music for Carillon No.1 - David Tudor, Williams Mix - Anahid Ajemian/Maro Ajemian/Douglas Allan/Joan Brockway/Melvyn Broiles/Earle Brown/Philip Brown, Con for Pno ; Orch - Anahid Ajemian/Maro Ajemian/Douglas Allan/Joan Brockway/Melvyn Broiles/Earle Brown/Philip Brown
Sub-GenreBox Sets
NotesRecorded live at Town Hall, NYC in May of 1958, this historic concert (organized by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg) was a retrospective of Cage's work from 1934 to the present. Here Cage's interest in technology, Eastern philosophies, and the concept of "silence" and "chance" as related to composition come to the fore as he plays some of his most significant and controversial pieces of his career, several of which ("Six Short Inventions for Seven Instruments", "She Is Asleep", "Music for Carillon", and "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" [in which Merce Cunningham took the part of the conductor - the "living clock" - and David Tudor that of the pianist]), were performed here for the first time ever. This concert created quite a stir for it's time, with many journalists and audience members loudly complaining "this isn't music"! Includes booklet with comments by Cage himself.