WAY OF WATER, WAY OF BAMBOO
John Cage and Morton Feldman in the Mirror of the traditional Japanese and Chinese cultures
ALEXEI LUBIMOV, piano, prepared piano, exotic and percussion instruments
NATALIA PSHENICHNIKOVA, voice, stage performance
STANISLAV MALYSHEV, violin, percussion instruments
ANDREY VINNITSKY, percussion instruments
DMITRY VLASIK, percussion instruments
PATRICK K.-H., video art and sound projection, electronics
Special Festival Guest: NAOYUKE MANABE, Sho (traditional Japanese bamboo mouth organ)
Part 1
John Cage: Amores (1943) for prepared piano and percussion, Solo for piano
Trio for 9 Tom-toms
Trio for 7 wood blocks
Solo for piano
John Cage: Six Melodies (1950) for violin and piano
John Cage: Seven Haiku (1952) for piano
Morton Feldman: Only (1946) for solo voice
John Cage: Imaginary Landscape No.1 (1939) for sinus wave generators, piano and large cymbal
John Cage: Prelude for Meditation (1944) for prepared piano
Banshiki-cho: Japanese Traditional Music from the Gagaku repertory XV-XVI century. 3 pieces for Sho (Japanese bamboo mouth organ)
John Cage: Inlets (1977) for 3 players of water-filled conch shells and 1 conch-player
John Cage: Water Walk (1959), a television performance of the composer, (video film)
John Cage: Mesostics (1971) for voice and a stage performance with a simultaneous performance of “Sculptures musicales”(1989) for electronic and instrumental sounds
In the intermission, at the foyer:
John Cage: Forever and Sunsmell (1942) for voice and percussion, on the texts by E.E.Cummings; Bacchanale (1940) for prepared piano; Music for Marcel Duchamp (1947) for prepared piano
Part 2
Tzo Cheng-guang (China – Russia) – “Five Prime Elements”/Wu Xing (1993) for five players on percussion instruments
Morton Feldman – Voice, Violin and Piano (1976).
John Cage: Two4 (1991) for violin and Sho
John Cage: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942) and Nowth Upon Nacht (1985), for voice and closed piano, on the texts by James Joyce
John Cage: Four3 (1991) for four performers (rainsticks, violin or oscillator, piano, silence)
Morton Feldman: Followe Thy Faire Sunne (1962) for voice and chime
John Cage: 4’33″ (1952). John Cage performing on the street in New York (video film)
John Cage: Living Room Music (1940) for percussion and speech quartet.
