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Call for Entries: Cage Match

Friday, February 17th, 2012

John Cage

Free103point9 and the John Cage Trust have opened a call for broadcast submissions looking at John Cage’s compositions for radio. Selected proposals will be broadcast on Free103point9′s radio station WGXC 90.7FM in Hudson throughout September.

Proposals can be focused on existing recordings of a specific piece, a live performance of a radio composition, or works in homage to Cage’s radio work.

Deadline for submissions is Thursday, March 1, and submissions must include a description of work or a link to a sample of audio work. More info and a submission form can be found here.

PS: Congrats go out to community radio station WGXC 90.7FM, who will be celebrating their first anniversary on the air with a big birthday party at the Catskill Community Center from 2-6pm on Sunday, February 26. Keep on rockin’ the airwaves…

Tags: John Cage, WGXC
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Happy 99th Birthday, John Cage!

Thursday, September 8th, 2011

Listen…

No question about it, composer John Cage was ahead of his time. In fact, although he died in 1992, his music is still ahead of our time. So it seems only proper that the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy would be ahead of its time in honoring the centennial of his birth.

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Tags: Arts Center of the Capital Region, John Cage, Troy
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Real Good For Free: Chamber Music of John Cage @ Bard College, 10/30

Tuesday, October 27th, 2009

John Cage (photo by Betty Freeman)

As part of a weekend-long celebration of the life and work of John Cage, students and faculty of The Bard College Conservatory of Music and the Music Program at Bard College are performing a concert of Cage’s chamber works, including:

Inlets (Improvisation II) for four conch shells and the sound of burning pinecones (1977)
Five Dances for String Quartet (arr. Salzman) (1996-97)
Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard (1950)
Three Songs for Voice and Piano (text by Gertrude Stein) (1933)
The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942)
A Flower (1950)
Nowth Upon Nacht (1984)
Radio Music (1956)
String Quartet in Four Parts (1950)
Eight Whiskus for solo violin (1985)
Nocturne for violin and piano (1947)
Two (1987)
The Beatles 1962–1970 (1990)

WHAT: John Cage at Bard College: Chamber Music
WHEN: Friday, October 30, 2009, 7pm
WHERE: Fisher Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
Free and open to the public

Call the John Cage Trust at Bard College for the latest information about the symposium: 845-835-8022.

Previously:
Real Good for Free: Silent Film Spectacular (Wednesdays)
Real Good For Free: Music @ Noon at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall (second Tuesdays)
Real Good For Free: Quintessence (Weekends)
Real Good for Free: Colleen Pratt @ the Van Dyck (Thursdays)
Real Good for Free: Tuesdays @ Revolution Hall (Tuesdays)
Real Good for Free: CRUMBS Nite Out @ The Linda (4th Thursdays)