JOHN CAGE - 25 YEAR RETROSPECTIVE CONCERT OF THE MUSIC OF JOHN CAGE (180G IMPORT 2LP)

John Cage 25 Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage on 180g Import 2LP

Recorded live at Town Hall, NYC in May of 1958, this historic concert (organized by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg) was a retrospective of John Cage’s work from 1934 to the present. Here Cage’s interest in technology, Eastern philosophies and the concept of “silence” and “chance” as related to composition come to the fore as he plays some of his most significant and controversial pieces of his career, several of which (“Six Short Inventions for Seven Instruments,” “She Is Asleep,” “Music for Carillon” and “Concerto for Piano and Orchestra”) were performed here for the first time ever. This concert created quite a stir for its time, with many journalists and audience members loudly complaining “this isn’t music!” Includes booklet with comments by John Cage himself.

John Cale 25 Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cale Track Listing:

1.  Six Short Inventions For Seven Instruments
2.  First Construction In Metal
3.  Imaginary Landscape No. 1
4.  The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs
5.  Sonatas and Interludes - Sonata I
6.  Sonatas and Interludes - Sonata II
7.  Sonatas and Interludes - Sonata III
8.  Sonatas and Interludes - Sonata IV
9.  Sonatas and Interludes - First Interlude
10. Sonatas and Interludes - Sonata V
11. Sonatas and Interludes - Sonata VI
12. Sonatas and Interludes - Sonata VII
13. Sonatas and Interludes - Sonata VIII
14. Sonatas and Interludes - Second Interlude
15. Music for Carillon No. 1
16. Williams Mix
17. She Is Asleep [Quartet]
18. She Is Asleep [Duo]
19. Concert for Piano and Orchestra