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About Concerto for piano and orchestra

Composed by: Cage, John (1912-1992)
Year composed: 1957-8

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Date and venueTitle
10-Apr-2012
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Stockhausen, Cage, and Bettison at Green Umbrella concert
Dangle the term “modern music” in front of your average classical music listener and chances are their reaction will range anywhere from polite indifference to outright bile-spewing hatred. Even after the advent of minimalism, neo-romanticism, the “new tonality”, and scores (pardon the pun) of composers who affect to write “accessible” music for the masses, the sometimes-gritty music of the mid-20th century avant-garde refuses to go away. If anything, it’s found a more secure footing than ever, enjoying a dedicated legion of young followers for whom such music holds no terrors.
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