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DESCRIPTION:Event Name: SICPP: Cage\, Wolff\nEvent Url: http://www.artsbost
 on.org/event/detail/441614419/SICPP_Cage_Wolff\nEvent Date Begin: 2012-06-
 17\nEvent Date End: 2012-06-18\n\nOpen your ears and your mind at the Summ
 er Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice (SICPP). It's a rare op
 portunity to immerse yourself in hearing where new music has been going\, 
 and to understand where it might be going next.\n\nLegendary artists are i
 n residence for this week of intensive musical study and performance\, alo
 ngside seminar participants who are here for the sheer thrill of the avant
  garde. NEC's Stephen Drury is artistic director for this institute\, and 
 guest artists this year include Louis Goldstein\, Joseph Kubera\, and Stef
 fen Schleiermacher.\n\nCage Music of Changes\, Winter Music\nWolff Sonata 
 (for three pianos)\nperformed by Stephen Drury\, Louis Goldstein\, Joseph 
 Kubera\, and Steffen Schleiermacher\n\nAs a continuation of NEC's celebrat
 ion of John Cage\, SICPP focuses this year on Cage's music as well as that
  of his colleague and friend Christian Wolff\, who is SICPP composer-in-re
 sidence this year. Wolff was previously in residence at NEC in 2010.\n\nCa
 ge\n\nComposer John Cage (1912&ndash\;1992) paid attention to the 99% of s
 ound that was not previously called 'music.' This even led him to explore 
 what was previously thought of as 'silence.' Because he challenged existin
 g notions of music in such a fundamental way\, his ideas still provoke and
  inspire.\n\nMusic of Changes (1951) was Cage's first composition using ch
 ance operations (assisted by the I Ching). Precisely notated for specific 
 actions beyond striking the keys of the piano\, this draws richly on sound
 s beyond the piano's conventional repertoire without actually being a 'pre
 pared piano' piece.\n\nGoing far beyond chance operations into indetermina
 cy\, the score for Winter Music allows an extremely variable number of sim
 ultaneous performers using material that can be sequenced in any way. 'All
  the traditional dimensions of music are by intention free\, free\, free\,
 ' writes Cage expert Richard Kostelanetz.\n\nWolff\n\nChristian Wolff is t
 he last surviving member of the New York School of composers who revolutio
 nized music in the 20th century. Along with Cage\, Morton Feldman\, and Ea
 rle Brown\, Wolff has changed the way musicians across the spectrum think 
 about composition and performance.\n\nWolff wrote his Sonata in 1957 for t
 hree pianos\, played by four pianists\, including Cage. And the pianos wer
 e prepared\, &agrave\; la Cage.\n\nStart time: Sunday June 17th and Monday
  June 18th\n3 PM
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