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Complete John Cage Edition 11: Orchestral Works I (mode41)

by John Cage

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John Cage speaks about 101 00:52
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101 12:15
3.
Apartmenthouse 1776 25:13
4.
Ryoanji 17:47

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COMPOSER SUPERVISED FIRST RECORDINGS


This is the first record to collect John Cage's orchestral works. The compositions presented here were recorded in the presence of the
composer during the New England Conservatory's John Cage Festival in Boston in 1991. Dating from Cage's middle-to-late period, the three pieces show three very different sides of Cage's musical personality.
101, for an orchestra of the same number of musicians, was commissioned by the Boston Symphony in celebration of Cage's appointment as Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard and Radcliffe in 1988 and 1989. Opening with a fortissimo blast from the brasses and double-reeds (which may be one of the loudest passages in Cage's total œuvre), the piece continues to explore a sonorous world ranging from chords of three or four tones to massive clusters along with bowed piano sounds and unique percussion effects.
Apartment House 1776 was also written for the BSO and its music director Seiji Ozawa, commissioned by the National Endowment for the Arts to be performed by America's six major orchestras as part of the Bicentennial celebrations in the U.S. during 1976. Chamber orchestras play music that was performed in America during the period of the American Revolution, punctuated by brass choirs and period solo drum marches while four solo singers perform songs of the Protestant, Sephardic, Native American and African American traditions. The effect is likened to how an apartment house might have been in 1776, where one could hear a different music from each open window.
Ryoanji, a work whose music has a sensuous serpentine quality, exists in several performing versions. This is the first recording (and performance) to present the orchestral version together with four out of the five possible instrumental soloists.

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released February 6, 1994

John Cage, voice (1)
New England Conservatory Philharmonia
Stephen Drury, conductor (4)
Walter Buckingham, Protestant (3)
Darrell Dunn, Native American (3)
Semenya McCord, African American (3)
Chiam Parchi, Sephardi (3)
Fenwick Smith, flute (4)
Anthony D'Amico, string bass (4)
Michael Miller, oboe (4)
Petur Eiriksson, bass trombone (4)

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