John Cage - 44 Harmonies From Apartment House 1776 / Cheap Imitation flac album

Cheap Imitation is a piece for solo piano by John Cage, composed in 1969. It is an indeterminate piece created using the I Ching and based, rhythmically, on Socrate by Erik Satie. History of composition. Like numerous other works by Cage, Cheap Imitation was a result of his collaboration with Merce Cunningham's dance company. However, in this case the original choreography relied not on Cage's music, but on a piano arrangement of Erik Satie's symphonic drama Socrate

Apartment House 1776 was a large "circus" created for the American Bicentennial, being Cage's vision of a 1776 apartment house with different rooms representing the various residents inside. The "44 Harmonies" occupied just one of these rooms, but as with the parts in Cage's Concert for piano and orchestra (1958), any single element in Apartment House 1776 can be singled out independently. Irvine Arditti has arranged the 44 Harmonies for string quartet, and in this medium it works extremely well. Lasting a whopping 103:26, 44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776 takes up the whole first disc and most of the second, but the second disc is filled out with a fine solo performance of Cheap Imitation by Irvine Arditti in all its haunting, ghostly whiteness. Track Listing - Disc 1. Title/Composer. Forty-Four Harmonies (44 Harmonies), for 4 voices (from "Apartment House 1776").

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Irvine Arditti completes his complete traversal of Cage's works for solo violin with Cheap Imitation in this set. In 1969, John Cage transcribed a two piano version of Erik Satie's 1918 music drama Socrate to accompany Merce Cunningham's choreography Second Hand. The 44 Harmonies are based on early American music, are, to quote Cage: "for the most part both quartets and solos, subtractions of different sorts from anthems and congregational music written by composers who were at least twenty years old at the time of the American Revolution" (specifically: Supply Belcher, William Billings, Jacob French, Andrew Law, and James Lyon). These Harmonies are derived from Cage's Apartment House 1776. In 1998, Irvine Arditti, along with pianist Stephen Drury, were in the studio to continue recording Cage's complete works for violin and piano.

Apartment House 1776 From left, Matoaka Little Eagle, Cleek Schrey, Mary MacKenzie and Jessica Schmitz in the Avant Music Festival at the Wild Project. The concert at the Wild Project was the second event in this year’s fourth annual Avant Music Festival, a grass-roots new-music series organized by Mr. Gibson and Megan Schubert, a soprano. Set in motion by Mr. Gibson, the ensemble played materials stipulated by Cage: 44 Harmonies, 14 Tunes, 4 Marches and 2 Imitations, derived from traditional songs, compositions and military drum figures from the time of the American Revolution, altered by Cage using chance operations from the I Ching.

44 Harmonies from Apartment House 1776 (1976). sec. For a String Player&.A Room, for prepared piano. Cartridge Music (1960). Cheap Imitation for piano (1969). Chess pieces, for Piano (1944). Child of Tree, for percussionist using plant materials with amplification (1975). Composed Improvisation for Snare Drum alone. Credo in US. Crete & Dad (1945). Daughters of the Lonesome Isle, for prepared piano (1945).

44 Harmonies From Apartment House 1776, Cheap Imitation John Cage.

John Cage - Stephen Drury - The Piano Works 3: The Seasons; Cheap Imitation; ASLSP ‎(CD, Album). Volume 32. John Cage. 44 Harmonies From Apartment House 1776, Cheap Imitation ‎(2xCD, Album).