| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 17-Aug-2012 Royal Albert Hall | Prom 47: John Cage night |
Now they know how many cacti it takes to fill the Albert Hall. Last night’s marathon John Cage Prom finished up, over three hours after it had started, with a wonderfully cactus-heavy performance of Branches (1976). Played by Robyn Schulkowsky and 20 more musicians scattered broadly around the hall, Branches involved copious amplified cactus-plucking as well as plenty more soft sounds thoughtfully extracted from a range of natural, foresty items such as sticks and twigs.Read full review... | |
| 21-Jun-2012 St Leonard's Church, Shoreditch | Exaudi sing Cage at Spitalfields Music Summer Festival |
Almost as remarkable as John Cage's actual music is how varied it is. Nothing obvious connects The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, a beautifully simple four-note piece for soprano and piano lid, to Four Solos for voice, a late work in which four singers independently do a series of strange things at the same time. But somehow all the works connect; each exudes the same sense of serendipitous serenity; they stand alongside each other much like the four soloists in Four Solos, totally distinct and yet together too.
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| 12-Mar-2012 Kings Place: Hall Two | Exaudi at Kings Place |
In a pre-performance discussion, the vocal ensemble Exaudi's director James Weeks promised us that they were not just going to stand in a line for their Kings Place performance. And they were true to his word; the singers performed from all parts of the intimate Hall Two and created an immersive, involved listening experience.
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