Thurley, OWM orcid.org/0000-0001-8510-8800 (2018) Apartment House: Wolff, Cage, ‘Performing Indeterminacy’, University of Leeds, 1 July 2017. Tempo, 72 (283). pp. 90-92. ISSN 0040-2982
Abstract
At the beginning of July, the University of Leeds played host to the ‘Performing Indeterminacy’ conference: a series of talks, panels and concerts that are part of a research project on John Cage's Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957–58), led by Philip Thomas and Martin Iddon. In the middle of all this, Apartment House presented what many consider the pinnacle of Cage's indeterminate work alongside a new commission from Christian Wolff, the last surviving member of the New York School composers. Resistance (2016–17), Wolff's new work ‘for 10 or more players and a pianist’, was written in response to Cage's Concert, sharing elements of its instrumentation and schema. In Leeds’ Clothworkers Hall, Apartment House – led by Anton Lukoszevieze – premiered the new piece alongside its progenitor, composed some 59 years apart. At the heart of both pieces in this concert is Philip Thomas at the piano. The conscientiousness and exactitude that Thomas brings to the music of both Cage and Wolff (having worked closely with the latter over the past 15 years) make him, perhaps, the ideal soloist for this programme. Quite simply, it is a line-up that could not have come about through chance procedure.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © Cambridge University Press 2017. This is an author produced version of a paper published in Tempo. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
Keywords: | Christian Wolff; John Cage; Indeterminacy; Apartment House |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Music (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2018 11:19 |
Last Modified: | 19 Jan 2018 15:05 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/S0040298217001012 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:125792 |