John Cage

Vocal Works - Freeman Etudes / One9

Archive 2011
Music

John Cage
Ear for EAR (Antiphonies)
Four solos
Four2
Freeman Etudes for violin solo (extraits)
One9, for sho solo (extracts)
Hymns and Variations for twelve amplified voices
Mayumi Miyata, sho
Carolin Widmann, violin
Vocal Ensemble Exaudi
Direction James Weeks
Coproduction Théâtre de la Ville-Paris ; Festival d’Automne à Paris
With the support of Bernard Monnier, Judith Pisar and  King's Fountain

A concert dedicated to the late period John Cage, with four vocal works and two instrumental works: the Freeman Studies for violin,
studies so difficult, according to Cage, that they incite the violinist to achieve the impossible, each performance being an approximationby the individual musician; plus One9 for the Japanese sho mouth organ.

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