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Break the Rules! - American Mavericks - Students

Spend three nights with innovative composers of the last two centuries: John Cage, Mason Bates, Steve Reich, Meredith Monk, and more. These maverick composers changed the way we experience music today. Plus, get a free American Mavericks book with this subscription.

Series Events

Monday, Mar 26, 2012 | 7:30 PM
So Percussion
"We Are All Going In Different Directions"—A John Cage Celebration
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • So Percussion
    ·· Eric Beach
    ·· Josh Quillen
    ·· Adam Sliwinski
    ·· Jason Treuting
  • Matmos
    ·· Drew Daniel, Electronics
    ·· M.C. Schmidt, Electronics
  • Dan Deacon, Electronics
  • Cenk Ergün, Electronics
  • Beth Meyers, Viola

Program

  • CAGE Credo in US
  • SO PERCUSSION / MATMOS Needles
  • CAGE Imaginary Landscape #1
  • CAGE Quartet for Percussion from She is Asleep
  • CENK ERGÜN Use
  • DAN DEACON "Bottles" from Ghostbuster Cook: The Origin of the Riddler
  • DAN DEACON Take a Deep Breath
  • CAGE 18' 12", A Simultaneous Performance of Cage Works
    ·· Inlets (Improvisation II)
    ·· 0' 00" (4' 32" No. 2)
    ·· Duet for Cymbal
    ·· 45' for a Speaker
  • JASON TREUTING 24 x 24 (NY Premiere)
  • CAGE Third Construction
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Pre-concert talk starts at 6:30 PM in Zankel Hall with members of So Percussion in conversation with Ara Guzelimian, Provost and Dean, The Juilliard School.

No one did more to change how we think about music—how we listen to it, make it, perform it—than John Cage. As part of American Mavericks at Carnegie Hall, Brooklyn-based ensemble So Percussion fetes this challenging composer, who was born 100 years ago in Los Angeles, and whose influence is felt today almost everywhere in American music.
Cage Third Construction
So Percussion
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Thursday, Mar 29, 2012 | 8:30 PM
American Mavericks
with Members of the San Francisco Symphony
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor and Host
  • Donato Cabrera, Conductor
  • Kiera Duffy, Soprano
  • Paul Jacobs, Organ
  • Mason Bates, Electronica
  • Newband
    Dean Drummond and Stefani Starin, Directors
  • Young People's Chorus of New York City
    Francisco J. Núñez, Artistic Director
  • Members of the San Francisco Symphony

Program

  • PARTCH Daphne of the Dunes
  • MASON BATES Mass Transmission (NY Premiere)
  • DEL TREDICI Syzygy
  • HARRISON Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra
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Music by two West Coast composers with a penchant for melding seemingly disparate sounds frames this American Mavericks event, starting with a piece for electronica and chorus by Oakland-based Mason Bates. Organist Paul Jacobs joins an unorthodox ensemble that includes plumbers’ pipes and oxygen-tank bells in Lou Harrison’s Concerto for Organ with Percussion Orchestra.
David Del Tredici Syzygy
ASKO Ensemble; Oliver Knussen, Conductor; Jan Harshagen, French Horn; Peppie Wiersma, Tubular Bells; Wim Vos, Tubular Bells; Lucy Shelton, Soprano  
Deutsche Grammophon
American Mavericks
As Artistic Director of "American Mavericks," Michael Tilson Thomas offers a thrilling chance to experience the music of Charles Ives, Carl Ruggles, John Cage, John Adams, and other maverick composers in a series of concerts in March 2012, celebrating what he calls the "iconoclasts, moldbreakers, voyagers, pioneers of the American sound."
Friday, Mar 30, 2012 | 8:30 PM
American Mavericks
with Members of the San Francisco Symphony
Zankel Hall

Performers

  • Michael Tilson Thomas, Host
  • Jeffrey Milarsky, Conductor
  • Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble, Vocalists
  • Joan La Barbara, Vocalist
  • Jeremy Denk, Piano
  • Jesse Stiles, Electronics
  • San Francisco Symphony
    Michael Tilson Thomas, Music Director and Conductor

Program

  • STEVE REICH Music for Pieces of Wood
  • MEREDITH MONK Realm Variations (NY Premiere)
  • FOSS Echoi
  • MORTON SUBOTNICK Jacob’s Room: Monodrama (NY Premiere)
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American Mavericks concludes with a concert that reflects the range of music that defines the maverick spirit: The human voice stretched to its limit by Meredith Monk; electronic theater music by Morton Subotnik; pulsing music by Steve Reich; and Lukas Foss’s experimentalism grounded in the European tradition.
Morton Subotnick And The Butterflies Begin to Sing, Part IV "Images Will Descend to the Ground: Truth will remain simple, and gigantic wheels will ride the bitter waves"
Amernet String Quartet; Kyoko Kashiwagi, Violin; Marcia Littley De Arias, Violin; Bleda Elibal, Double Bass; Javier Arias-Flores, Cello; Malcolm Johnston, Viola
New World Records

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