Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[john david <>]

Nice review.
In addition to the Disney Hall performances, it's being done in Montpellier,
France June 18-20.
John David Fullemann


Ralph Lichtensteiger wrote:
> By Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times Music Critic - Reporting from New York —
> In fall 1986, as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Next Wave 
> Festival, John Cage delivered, in his uniquely spoken-sung fashion, 
> poetic texts he had derived from James Joyce's readably unreadable comic 
> novel "Finnegans Wake." Irish musicians played and sang traditional 
> Irish music. An electronic collage of sounds and ambient noises 
> indicated in the "Wake" ran throughout the performance sometimes 
> drowning out all else. Merce Cunningham added invented Irish dances — 
> jigs and reels and the like — abstracted and combined into a Cubist 
> Irish dance canvas.
> (...)
> Restoring "Roaratorio" is a crazy idea, but maybe not so impossible or 
> inappropriate as it first seems. I still recall the presence in the 
> performance of Cage, Cunningham and the Irish musicians. The soundscape 
> I know well, since it has long been available on recording. The actual 
> choreography has mostly faded from my memory, however.
> (...)
>
> http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/music/la-ca-merce-cunningham-20100530,0,77059.story
>
> Best,
> Ralph Lichtensteiger
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