CageConcert

Twitter account of the AHRC-funded research project 'John Cage and the Concert for Piano and Orchestra', based at @mhmhudds and @leedsunimusic

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cageconcert is live! Check out our website and apps. Lots to see, hear, play with.
More soon!

Performing the Concert for Piano and Orchestra https://t.co/AxeMKEaLSj

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Today is the 7th day running that I have been fully awake. No shutdowns. The lonGest so far has been 5 days. Cause for celebration folks.

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The CageConcert Player app is now up and running again! 🎶🎹🎵

https://t.co/zZT4wA8h4W

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The Player app is down temporarily. Normal service will be resumed shortly. In the meantime the website and the solo for piano app all fully functioning.

https://t.co/zZT4wApStw

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In honour of the anniversary of John Cage’s death, may we suggest you select just one instrument of the 14 available on our app and listen to just one page from the Concert for Piano and Orchestra for a very long time https://t.co/VUODSbidVt

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This Thursday. Come along to find out more about how the project started, how to work the apps and the decisions we took in devising them, and a chance to meet team members @philip_thomas_1 and Chris Melen and ask them questions. Everyone welcome.

[Heidi Johnson @heidi_johnson8]

Don't forget to register for @philip_thomas_1's
demonstration of the @CageConcert web resource and apps, Thu 30 July at 4pm or 8pm. Book your free place online at https://t.co/K92H8nzSIL or https://t.co/QdHRdTEawn.

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Hope some of you can join us!

[Heidi Johnson @heidi_johnson8]

Join pianist @philip_thomas_1 for an engaging online introduction and demonstration of the @CageConcert web resource and apps, Thu 30 July at 4pm or 8pm. Book your free place online at https://t.co/K92H8nzSIL or https://t.co/QdHRdTEawn.

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And wonderful memory of this energising world premiere.

Apartment House Perform Christian Wolff’s Resistance https://t.co/arcIlW8cHJ

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Happy 25th Birthday Apartment House! ⁦@house_apartment⁩

Apartment House and Philip Thomas perform John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra https://t.co/gpDj5r9lBm

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Three years ago we hosted the #PerformingIndeterminacy conference. Read about it here https://t.co/7Rw0gAVxos

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After a website, two apps, a cd and many performances, articles, talks, and conference papers, here's the culmination of our project. It's been a blast.

[Philip Thomas @philip_thomas_1]

About seven years after an idea formed, here's the book. Am proud of this one. It's been a ball working with Martin on it. Available now from @OUPAcademic
https://t.co/Jpdn5rv91O
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[Philip Thomas @philip_thomas_1]

So here’s a thing I did as part of @CageConcert but which am only just releasing now. To my knowledge it’s the first complete realisation of Cage’s Solo for Piano. A 3+ hour rendition compiled from performances of each notation

John Cage - Solo for Piano https://t.co/vj1A3CUiYu

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That a single work has inspired such a massive, multidimensional study vividly demonstrates that the incendiary music of a notorious agent provocateur has now entered the musical mainstream. https://t.co/udhUqdzjYc

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A monumental achievement — in considering Cage's watershed Concert with respect to historical context, sketch study and compositional realization, and performance as well as interpretation, Iddon and Thomas have produced a milestone in Cage scholarship. https://t.co/udhUqdzjYc

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Absolutely delighted to announce that this book will be on the (virtual) shelves in May, earlier than originally planned. Available for pre-order now.

John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra - Martin Iddon, Philip Thomas - Oxford University Press https://t.co/udhUqdzjYc

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Listen to Emily Payne and @philip_thomas_1 talk about the cageconcert project to Tom Service on @BBCRadio3 'Music Matters'
https://t.co/WIdMdEfFaP

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Really looking forward to this
"CoMA Glasgow: Festival of Contemporary Music for All" https://t.co/9vF1c7WMbA

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Read Grego Applegate Edwards' review of CC here
https://t.co/Q2yAt3foML

Do not hold back. Get it!

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Listen to Emily Payne and @philip_thomas_1 talk about the cageconcert project to Tom Service on @BBCRadio3 'Music Matters'
https://t.co/WIdMdExgzp

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@robhaskins wrote in American Record Guide on the @house_apartment recording CC: ‘This new performance is in all ways a revelation and an achievement of the highest order. […] From now on, when I teach this piece, I’ll use this recording […] I would advise obtaining this disc.’