Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

["PD Dr. Simone Heilgendorff" <>]

    Hi everybody,
      
      this park project appears to be such a great project. I am
      thrilled by the concept and the mediation aspects, the closeness
      to nature... Our association for the "ausgefallenen Klang" in a
      small community just Southwest of Berlin/Germany is very
      interested in realizing it next year. Can somebody please inform
      me, who holds the copyright of this concept? It seems that the
      Cage Trust does not even list it.
      We are also interested to know if other promoters might be
      interested in realizing it next summer (2024), possibly in
      cooperation with us.
      
      Thanks everybody! Simone Heilgendorff (www.ausklang.org)

Am 04.09.23 um 19:38 schrieb Stefano Pocci:

Hi there,

I know that the amplified park project did not happen in 1979 in Montestella d'Ivrea

https://www.johncage.it/en/1979-montestella.html

The same people that tried to pull that off in vain managed to organize the Cage retrospective in Turin, May 1984, but without that park project.

Hope this helps,

Stefano

Il giorno lun 4 set 2023 alle ore 19:12 Dionysis Boukouvalas <> ha scritto:

Do we know how many works were commissioned from Cage but yet unrealized at the time of his death? I am including works he had not even begun working on (indeed: I am especially interested on them).

I remember that the relevant number for Xenakis was roughly 15 (hearsay from Xenakis-expert pianist Ermis Theodorakis). Of course, in the case of Xenakis he just abandoned them, because he could no longer write. Allow me one more Xenakis story here, because I find it moving: When he delivered his last work, Omega (symbolically - the last letter of the Greek alphabet), it run a few minutes long, while the commission was for a 15 minute work. Xenakis said "be grateful for this (i.e. short) work, because it is my last one"...

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