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Cage Day: 'Sonatas and Interludes' by Joanna MacGregor
  
 

Joanna MacGregor Joanna MacGregor plays John Cage

On 1st June, Invention Studios is honoured to present John Cage's beautiful masterpiece for prepared piano, as interpreted by one of the most talented modern artists of our time. Joanna MacGregor's fascination with John Cage's unique style dates back to the beginning of her career, and has influenced her own development as an internationally renowned classical, jazz, and contemporary pianist, whose musical innovation earned her a Mercury prize nomination in 2002.

Rarely performed, "Sonatas and Interludes" represents Cage at his most mystical, meditative, and melodic; combining Hindu philosophy, the gamelan, and the jewel-like intensity of a Scarlatti sonata. Cage's groundbreaking sound - the apotheosis of years of experimentation in the 1930s and 40s - will be recreated by MacGregor, using everyday items (such as bolts, screws, and pieces of plastic and rubber) placed gently and precisely between the strings. Praise for Joanna MacGregor:

“Joanna MacGregor's career is practically built on a reinvention of the star virtuoso tradition, applied to the often cerebral and style-oblivious world of contemporary music.”

(BBC Classical Review, Joanna MacGregor ‘Play’ album, March 2004)


Joanna MacGregor is one of contemporary music's great individualists, a uniquely enlivening presence who slices her way through all the barriers she sees as false and limiting.

(George Hall, The Independent, March 2008)


"MacGregor, the artistic director of the Bath festival, played a technologically souped-up Steinway, and the sounds of her performances of four Dowland pieces were further enhanced by Eno's electronic manipulation ... her live versions of two numbers from Eno's Music for Airports ... were given a sacred resonance..."

(Tom Service, The Guardian, May 2006)



Tickets to this rare event will cost £10, available from the Bath Music Festival's site, with standard concessions available. Doors open at 9.00pm, so be sure to get in early.


Sunday, 1 June 2008 - Main Studio


Doors Open:
  
8pm
Event Starts:
  
8:30pm
Event Ends:
  
Midnight

Standard Full Price:
  
£10.00
Concession:
  
To be announced

Area:
  
Main Studio



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