Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

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Dear Silencers,

The Wake Forest University CAGEFEST has just gotten underway with a glorious Musicircus.  Here is the schedule in full.

CAGEFEST  CALENDAR

 

 

 

Sept 28            MUSICIRCUS – ZSR Atrium, 5-7 PM

Oct 4               Brian Butler – “From the Ironist to the Anarchist Poet: Richard Rorty, Buckminster Fuller, and John Cage on the Poetic Construction of the Political Possibility,” Benson 401C/D, 3:30 PM

Oct 9               Rob Haskins, musicologist, “Cage Performance Practice,” Scales M308, 4:15 PM

Oct 10             Two-Piano recital, Two2, Haskins and Goldstein, Brendle Recital Hall, 8:00 PM

Oct 11             Rob Haskins reading “IV” from the Charles Elliot Norton Lectures (I-VI)

                                                            ZSR Auditorium (room 404), 4 PM

Oct 14             Stephen Drury, All-Cage piano recital, Brendle Recital Hall, 7:30 PM

Oct 22             Cage / Rocks: Ryoan-ji, Hanes Art Gallery, Scales

Oct 23             Marjorie Perloff, “John Cage As a Conceptual Poet,”

Welcome Center Auditorium (Kulynych), 5:15 PM

Oct. 29                        Cage / Rocks: New River, Hanes Art Gallery, Scales

Oct. 30                        Official opening of Cage / Rocks: Ryoan-ji and New River,

Hanes Art Gallery

                                    3:00     IPLACe Kickoff, Theatre-Art Lobby, Scales

                                    3:30     “For Cage,” Cynthia Huang, dancer

Christina Soriano, choreographer

                                    3:45     Remarks by Provost Rogan Kersh

4:00     Opening lecture, Ray Kass, “The Sight of Silence:

John Cage’s Watercolors,” Scales Room 102

                                    5:00     Opening Reception, Hanes Art Gallery

Nov 6             David Patterson, musicologist, “Cage and Politics,” Scales M308, 4:15 PM

Nov 6              All-Student Cage Recital, Brendle Recital Hall, 7:30 PM

Nov. 8             Ryoan-ji Lecture-Recital, Hanes Art Gallery, 7:30 PM

Nov 13                        Kay Larson, art critic, “John Cage and Zen: The Koan of Silence,”

Welcome Center Auditorium (Kulynych), 5:15 PM

Nov. 14           Louis Goldstein, “Sonatas and Interludes,” Scales M208, 10 PM

 

 

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