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Performance TitleBBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 47 - Cage Centenary Celebration
Performance Date17 August 2012
Performance DayFriday
Performance Time20:00
Main PerformersChristian Marclay
John Tilbury - piano, prepared piano,
Christian Wolff - piano,
David Behrman,
Takehisa Kosugi - live electronics,
Keith Rowe
Secondary PerformersJoan La Barbara - vocal,
Frank Denyer,
Aki Takahashi - pianos,
Vicki Bennett,
Steve Beresford,
Adam Bohman,
Jonathan Bohman,
John Butcher,
Karen Constance,
Angharad Davies,
Rhodri Davies,
Patrick Farmer,
Ram Gabay,
Christoph Heemann,
Lina Lapelyte,
John Lely,
Anton Lukoszevieze,
Dylan Nyoukis,
Mariam Rezaei,
Robyn Schulkowsky,
Dimitra Lazaridou Chatzigoga
Orchestra or BandBBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
ChoirsExaudi
ConductorsIlan Volkov
Set List'1O1', Cage,
'Improvisation III', Cage,
'Baggage', Christian Marclay
'Cartridge Music and Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music', Cage,
INTERVAL
'Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra', Cage,
'Four2', Cage,
'But what about the noise of crumpling paper ... ', Cage,
'Experiences II', Cage,
'ear for EAR (Antiphonies)',
'Quartet', David Behrman, Takehisa Kosugi, Keith Rowe, Christian Wolff
'Branches', Cage
Performance NotesTo mark the centenary of John Cage’s birth, Ilan Volkov has curated a programme that reflects the composer’s iconoclastic thinking, fertile imagination and arresting humour.

John Tilbury, who has for decades been associated with Cage’s work tonight plays the exquisitely beautiful Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra. Cassette players and plucked cactuses are just two examples of the blindingly original yet almost naively simple thinking that saw Cage – wittingly or otherwise – upturn practically every musical rule in the book.

Broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC London News.
Related Archival MaterialProms Guide (RAHE/1/2012/58),
Programme (RAHE/1/2012/105),
Handbill (RAHE/6/2012/39),
Poster (RAHE/2/2012/24)
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Catalogue
Reference NumberTitleDate
RAHE/1/2012/105BBC Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season - Prom 47 - Cage Centenary Celebration17 August 2012
Work
Ref NoTitleNo of Performances
Work7673BBC Proms: Sir Henry Wood Promenade Concerts 2012 - One Hundred and Eighteenth Season76
Performers
CodeName of Performer(s)
DS/UK/1137Cage Jr.; John Milton (1912-1992); American composer, music theorist, writer, artist
DS/UK/944British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra; 1935-; British broadcasting organisation
DS/UK/1138Exaudi; 2002-; British contemporary music ensemble
DS/UK/1139Volkov; Ilan (1976-); Israeli orchestral conductor
DS/UK/1140La Barbara; Joan (1947-); American vocalist, composer associated with contemporary music
DS/UK/1141Tilbury; John (1936-); British pianist
DS/UK/1142Denyer; Frank (1943-); English composer
DS/UK/1143Wolff; Christian G. (1934-); American composer of experimental classical music
DS/UK/1144Behrman; David (16 August 1937); American composer
DS/UK/1145Kosugi; Takehisa (1938-); Japanese composer, violinist associated with the Fluxus movement
DS/UK/1146Rowe; Keith (1940-); English free improvisation tabletop guitarist and painter
DS/UK/31Britain; British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC); 18 October 1922-; British public service broadcaster
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