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Imaginary Landscapes

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Tuesday, August 28, 2007

John Cage's sound experiments often centered around imaginary "Landscapes" that were fashioned by the artist in performance. Tonight we hear one of his first efforts in the genre for piano, "In a Landscape."

24:33 on WNYC2: A John Cage Festival

John Cage's "In a Landscape"

"In a Landscape" was scored in 1948 for Louise Lippold's eponymous dance piece. The piece is meditative and dreamy, using the sostenuto pedal and the damper pedal on the piano simultaneously throughout. Some have compared the piece to works by Erik Satie; it is less percussive than many of Cage's ...

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Joan La Barbara

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Operation Opera: John Cage and Leonard Lopate

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Kaleidoscopic Cage: Short Works

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Meet the Composer

Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

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cAgeless Classics, Part One

Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

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cAgeless Classics, Part Two

Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

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The Playful and Playable ...

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cAgeless Classics, Part Three

Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

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The Radical Simplicity of John Cage

Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

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