John Cage Essentials
Playlist - 26 Songs
When you write a so-called “silent” piece like "4'33”," you might expect most people to remember you for that and only that. But there's so much more to Cage's radical (and very musical) output: his piano writings alone include the gorgeous “In a Landscape,” the jazzy “Ad Lib,” and the random-chance operations of the Music of Changes. The composer's writings on indeterminacy give today's interpreters license to plays works in a variety of ways, but sometimes the old-school Cage strategies work best—as with Third Coast Percussion's use of turntables during “Credo in US.”
Featured Artists
John Cage Essentials features Bertrand Chamayou, Alexei Lubimov, Dennis Russell Davies and more