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Cage Centennial: One5
thefidget space
Philadelphia, PA
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Cage Centennial: One5
<fidget>'s Cage Centennial Celebration Continues

Don't fret if you missed January's kick-off performance of Cage's score Four6; the celebration continues throughout February and March.  <fidget>, an arts organization dedicated to cross-disciplinary experimentation, delves even deeper into the spaces for thought and creation opened by John Cage's legacy.  Don't miss One5: Cage and Cage inspired scores for Piano and electronics with special guest Rob Haskins at thefidget space on Friday, February 17th at 8PM, with a pre-show talk at 7PM.  

This month <fidget> welcomes pianist and Cage scholar Rob Haskins.  He will perform Cage's One5 for piano.  Also on the program will be two premieres of Cage-inspired compositions for piano and electronics by Peter Price (<fidget>'s co-director and curator of the Cage Centennial events) and Joo Won Park (2012 artist-in-residence at thefidget space).  A pre-show lecture by Haskins at 7pm will open the evening:  "Music historian Richard Taruskin has famously criticized John Cage for magnifying the composer's authority over the performer in spite of Cage's claim that he aimed to liberate the performer through his use of chance in composition; Haskins will challenge this critique and argue that, in fact, Cage's approach allows for a novel and creatively fulfilling experience for his performers."

Rob Haskins is Associate Professor of Music at the University of New Hampshire. where his research specialty is American music after 1945 with particular focus on the music of John Cage and the American minimalists. He has published in a number of journals including Perspectives of New Music, Musical Quarterly, American Music, and Notes: The Journal of the Music Library Association. His short critical biography of John Cage will be published in the spring of 2012 as part of Reaktion Books's Critical Lives Series. As a pianist; his recording of Cage's Two2 was released by Mode Records in 2008; another recording is in production (for Mode) of My Wounded Head 3, an evening-length solo piano work by the Singaporean composer Marc Chan, which is dedicated to him. He will perform with Alarm Will Sound in the spring and summer of 2012.

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thefidget space
1714 N. Mascher St.
Philadelphia, PA 19122
United States

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