| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 13-Dec-2012 Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage | The American Symphony Orchestra elates and effervesces with Cage festivities at Carnegie Hall |
On Thursday evening, the American Symphony Orchestra bid an effervescent farewell to 2012 and thereby rounded out a year-long celebration of the centenary of John Cage’s birth.Read full review... | |
| 8-Oct-2012 Southbank Centre: Purcell Room | Intrusions and inversions: Morton Feldman's For John Cage at Ether |
The story of how composers Morton Feldman and John Cage met is now famous: in 1950, feeling dismayed by an audience’s discourteous reaction to Anton Webern’s Symphony, Op. 21 at a New York Philharmonic performance, Feldman decided to leave the concert. In the lobby he encountered Cage, who was there for the same reason. They quickly established a rapport and embarked on a friendship that was to influence their respective creative outputs.
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| 3-Oct-2012 Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ: Main Hall | Five hours of mystic puzzles: Ives Ensemble perform Feldman's String Quartet II |
Ives Ensemble are one of today’s important ambassadors of Feldman’s later works. In November 2011 they performed the 90-minute Piano, violin, viola, cello (1987) in Felix Meritis, Amsterdam. I wrote about that impressive performance and the history of Feldman’s music on Bachtrack.Read full review... | |
| 1-Sep-2012 Usher Hall | Edinburgh International Festival: RSNO play Ives, Feldman and Walton with David Robertson |
This, the final indoor concert of the 2012 Edinburgh International Festival (the closing Fireworks Concert takes place under the Castle Rock in Princes Street Gardens), was bookended by possibly the loudest and quietest sounds in the festival.
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