John Cage: Music and Dance

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Fri, May 9, 2025, 20:30

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John Cage was a free spirit, a pioneer and revolutionary who turned the way his contemporaries saw music upside down. In humorous happenings and numerous appearances on popular TV shows, he surprised audiences with everyday objects and incorporated squeaky ducks, watering cans and pressure cookers into his works. A completely new approach! His best-known piece »4’33’’« doesn’t have a single note: 4 minutes and 33 seconds of tense silence – that too, according to Cage, is music. At the Hamburg... Read full text

Keywords: Contemporary

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Musicians

Bertrand Chamayou	Piano
Elodie Sicard	Dance, Choreography
Anna Paolina Hasslacher	Piano preparation
Philippe Gladieux	Lighting design

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