Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Philip Thomas <>]

Two great opportunities for post-doctoral research assistants are now advertised, as part of a £508k Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project. Starting in September these will form part of a team consisting of myself and Professor Martin Iddon, with one based at the University of Huddersfield and the other at the University of Leeds. 

 

John Cage and the Concert for piano and orchestra

 

The Concert for Piano and Orchestra is widely regarded as a seminal work, not just within Cage's own output but in the context of twentieth-century music and techniques. Examples from the extravagant notations, particularly of the piano part, but also the instrumental parts (the clarinet part adorns the cover of James Pritchett's important 1993 survey The Music of John Cage) decorate most studies of twentieth-century and experimental music (the front covers of the second editions of both Michael Nyman’s Experimental Music and Paul Griffiths’s Modern Music and After: Directions since 1945 are two such examples). Ever since Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg organised an exhibition to run alongside the first performance of the work, exhibitions of graphic scores, American experimental work, and other themes associated with Cage regularly include pages from the piano part, the Solo for Piano. As well as the innovations in notations, formally—as a set of parts without score, to be performed in any combination and relationship, including with other works—it throws open the notion of open form and the open work to a far greater degree than any earlier work by any twentieth-century composer.

 

One post is focussed upon creating, developing and testing an interactive web-site focussing upon the Concert for piano and orchestra by John Cage and will also involve collating audio and working with musicians in preparation for performances and recordings. The other post deals with the performance materials and published sources related to the Concert for piano and orchestra, as well as archival and interview materials.

 

Please do forward this e-mail, or direct people to the job adverts, to anyone who you think might be interested in these posts.

 

https://vacancies.hud.ac.uk/tlive_webrecruitment/wrd/run/ETREC107GF.open?VACANCY_ID%3d5834261aFb%1BUSESSION=&WVID=47489100QU&LANG=USA&utm_source=Indeed&utm_medium=organic&utm_campaign=Indeed

 

 

http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ALJ419/postdoctoral-research-assistant-concert-for-piano-and-orchestra/

 

Many thanks

Philip

 

 

 

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Dr. Philip Thomas, Reader in Music
Reader in Music, Head of Performance

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