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25 Year Retrospective Concert

25 Year Retrospective Concert
John Cage

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Track Listing

Disc 1:

  1. Six Short Inventions for Seven Instruments - Anahid Ajemian/Maro Ajemian/Douglas Allan/Joan Brockway/Melvyn Broiles/Earle Brown/Philip Brown...
  2. First Construction in Metal - David Tudor
  3. Imaginary Landscape No.1 - Anahid Ajemian/Maro Ajemian/Douglas Allan/Joan Brockway/Melvyn Broiles/Earle Brown/Philip Brown...
  4. The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs - Arline Carmen/John Cage
  5. She is Asleep - Paul Price/Michael Colgrass/Warren Smith/Philip Brown
  6. She is Asleep - Arline Carmen/John Cage

Disc 2:

  1. Sons & Interludes: Sons I
  2. Sons & Interludes: Sons II
  3. Sons & Interludes: Sons III
  4. Sons & Interludes: Sons IV
  5. Sons & Interludes: Interlude
  6. Sons & Interludes: Sons V
  7. Sons & Interludes: Sons VI
  8. Sons & Interludes: Sons VII
  9. Sons & Interludes: Sons VIII
  10. Sons & Interludes: Second Interlude

Disc 3:

  1. Music for Carillon No.1 - David Tudor
  2. Williams mix - Anahid Ajemian/Maro Ajemian/Douglas Allan/Joan Brockway/Melvyn Broiles/Earle Brown/Philip Brown...
  3. Con for Pno & Orch - Anahid Ajemian/Maro Ajemian/Douglas Allan/Joan Brockway/Melvyn Broiles/Earle Brown/Philip Brown...

Product Details

  • Released on: 2008-08-01
  • Number of discs: 3
  • Format: Import
  • Dimensions: .55 pounds

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com essential recording
Hard to believe that as early as 1958 there was a 25-year retrospective concert of John Cage's music. But this 3-CD set documents both the concert and its meaning for the history of New Music. Organized by no less than Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Emile de Antonio, the event sparked heated controversy--some of it documented in the crowd's reaction to Cage's early tape- music piece, Williams Mix. The expansive booklet accompanying the CDs includes loads of prescient commentary, much of it from Cage himself. Most telling is the simple formulation: "New Music. New Listening. Just an attention to the activity of sounds." Cage's earliest-prepared piano sonatas are abbreviated with clangorous, percussive results, and the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra sprawls noisily in myriad directions. The sound is broad and warm for a 40-year-old live recording, and this is a cornerstone document of post-World War II art. --Andrew Bartlett