John Cage – Past Concerts near Seattle, WA

John Cage’s monumental work for the prepared piano is performed on the stage on which the instrument was born.

Newly composed works alongside a diverse mix of contemporary and experimental music. Featuring works by Charles Corey, Jacob Sundstrom, Ania Stachurska, Clint McCallum, Sergej Newski, Beat Furrer, and John Cage.

A day-long, artistically-stunning event dedicated to the creation, performance, and experience of new music in Seattle.

John Cage's Freeman Etudes for solo violin and the 17 Lyrics by Li Po for adapted viola and voice by Harry Partch.

Musical works and lectures written and influenced by John Cage. Dance inspired by Cage and Cunningham. Live art inspired by the I Ching and chance operations.

John Teske – susurrus
Tom Cipullo – Rain
Greg Dixon – Cedar Forest
John Cage – Litany for the Whale
John Luther Adams – songbirdsongs
Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Hrim

Julia Wolfe – My Beautiful Scream
John Cage – 4’33”
John Luther Adams – The Light that Fills the World
Morton Feldman – Piano and Orchestra
Philip Glass – The Light

Cage – Sonatas and Interludes

A performance of John Cage’s monumental Sonatas and Interludes composed for the prepared piano, in which dozens of various-sized bolts, screws, pieces of rubber and plastic are inserted between the piano strings, transforming the sound of the instrument into a complex variety of percussive sounds.

Works for solo guitarist dutifully following the instructions given by the composers 63 and 53 years ago, followed by a growing ensemble of players that will be alternately improvising freely and following a very open set of instructions.

Feldman – Intersection No. 2 for Orchestra
Wolff – For Bob
Brown – Music for Cello and Piano
Cage – Living Room Music
Feldman – Rothko Chapel

Steve Reich – Mallet Quartet
Glenn Kotche – Drum Kit Quartet No. 51
John Cage – Third Construction
Bryce Dessner – Music For Wood and Strings

Ligeti – 10 Pieces for Wind Quintet (1968)
Cage – String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
Bartók – Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion (1937)

Join soprano Sarah Davis and friends for an intimate evening of art, song and chamber music inspired by nature’s beautiful song makers – from the whimsical musings of the cuckoo to the chirp of the lark, the cooing of the turtledove and the wistful, melancholic song of the nightingale.

Program includes David Little’s “Haunt of Last Nightfall,” which blends pre-recorded heavy metal sounds with live percussion, and John Cage’s “Credo in Us.”

Paine – Excerpt from Symphony No. 1
Bernstein – Selections from West Side Story
Copland – Lincoln Portrait; Rodeo: Four Dances
Charles Berry – Three Stations of a Traveling Man
Cage – 4’33”
Herrmann – Scene from Psycho
Ellington – Medley
Sousa – Stars and Stripes