SUU students perform avant-garde works by Cage, Stockhausen, and others
By Ashley Pollock
Students from SUU’s music department will perform a concert of avant-garde music April 24 at 7:30 p.m. in the Thorley Recital Hall in Cedar City. Music will be performed from contemporary composers John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mark Applebaum, and Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen. Three SUU students will premier compositions. Admission is free and open to the public.
“We will explore music thorough silence, graphic notation, noise from a radio, and written word,” said Gary Joe Howe, adjunct professor of music at SUU. “One of John Cage’s most controversial pieces, “4’33”,” will be performed as well as one of his ‘Imaginary Landscapes.’ The graphic score will be displayed, and you are invited to watch as the students interpret these scores. During the concert, we will read Stockhausen’s written word and look to make music out of it.”
Students will perform John Cage’s “Imaginary Landscape No. 4,” which is written for 12 radios with 24 players and a conductor. One person will control the volume and the other the radio station for each radio.
Two movements will be presented from Karlheinz Stockhausen’s “Aus den sieben Tagen,” or “From the Seven Days,” which is a collection of 15 written instructions for ensemble in which there are no notes given, only instructions on how to interact with the fellow ensemble members or what sort of preparation should happen for the piece. They also perform interpretations of some graphic notation by Mark Applebaum and Carl Bergstrøm-Nielsen. Again, there are no written notes but rather pictures that the performers interpret.
SUU students Chris Kuhlemeier prepared a graphic score, Brendan Bennett wrote a piece for one of the ensembles, and Brandon Pierce wrote a piece for their rock band that will be performed at the concert as well.
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