WNYC - Evening Music: Living Room Music (August 27, 2007)

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Monday, August 27, 2007

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Living Room Music

In anticipation of the upcoming 95th birthday anniversary of musical maverick John Cage, we focus all week on various aspects of the composer's work. Tonight, vocal arts group nova performs Cage's "Living Room Music."

24:33 on WNYC2: A John Cage Festival

John Cage's Living Room Music

One of Cage's earlier works, "Living Room Music" is scored for percussion and "speech quartet." The work is intended to be played on an unspecified array of household objects one would find in a living room, such as tables, books, magazines, or window frames. The second movement features a spoken excerpt from Gertrude Stein's "The World is Round."

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John Cage talks about how he got into working with chance procedures and came to redefine the so-called "purpose" of music.

Cage's Gift: An Unprepared World Meets the Prepared Piano

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 Mostly Mozart Festival on WNYC

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This year's annual Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center is rife with sounds stretching the spectrum of Requiems, Metamorphoses, and Passions — including the American premiere of composer-in-residence Kaija Saariaho's tale of the sufferings of French mystic Simone Weil, who died of starvation in protest to the Nazi occupation of Paris in 1943.

Deerhoof/Metropolis Ensemble Live Webcast

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WNYC and NPR Music team up to bring you this live webcast from the Prospect Park Bandshell, which pairs indie rock sensation Deerhoof with the progressive Metropolis Ensemble. Presented by Celebrate Brooklyn! and Wordless Music, and hosted by David Garland, the program features an ambitious re-imagining of Igor Stravinsky's Rite of Spring, The Rite: Remixed.

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2008 American Music Festival

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Hosts Terrance McKnight and David Garland curate the 68th annual American Music Festival, featuring "America's Classical Music." Guests include LD Brown a.k.a. Grey Reverend; acclaimed jazz pianist Jason Moran; composer and musicologist Gunther Schuller; culture critic John Rockwell; new music guru John Zorn, and Pulitzer prize-winning composer William Bolcom.