Musicircus: John Cage

THE BARD COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC THE JOHN CAGE TRUST AT BARD COLLEGE

MUSICIRCUS John Cage

Sunday, August 13, 2017 | 6:30 pm Spiegeltent Bard College

THE BARD COLLEGE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC Robert Martin, Director Frank Corliss, Associate Director Eileen Brickner, Dean of Students Sebastian Danila, Orchestra Librarian Nick Edwards, Admissions Counselor Ann Gabler, Concert Office Coordinator Lisa Hedges, Production Coordinator Hsiao-Fang Lin, Administrative Coordinator; Assistant Orchestra Manager Marielle Metivier, Orchestra Manager Tricia Reed, Communications and Special Projects Coordinator Kristin Roca, Graduate Program Coordinator BARD COLLEGE CONSERVATORY ADVISORY BOARD Gonzalo de Las Heras, Chair Gregory Drilling, ’16 Alan D. Hilliker Susan B. Hirschhorn Belinda Kaye Stephen Kaye Y. S. Liu Don M. Randel Maximiliaan Rutten Melissa Wegner, ’08 Eric Wong Shirley Young UNDERGRADUATE PROGRAM FACULTY Violin Shmuel Ashkenasi, Yi-Wen Jiang, Ani Kavafian*, Ida Kavafian, Honggang Li, Weigang Li, Daniel Phillips, Todd Phillips, Laurie Smukler, Arnold Steinhardt* Viola Marka Gustavsson, Honggang Li, Steven Tenenbom, Ira Weller Cello Peter Wiley Double Bass Leigh Mesh Harp Sara Cutler, Bridget Kibbey Piano Jeremy Denk*, Richard Goode*, Benjamin Hochman, Peter Serkin Flute Nadine Asin*, Tara Helen O’Connor Oboe Elaine Douvas, Melissa Hooper, Alexandra Knoll Clarinet David Krakauer, Pascual Martínez-Forteza, Anthony McGill Bassoon Marc Goldberg Horn Barbara Jöstlein Currie, Julie Landsman*, Jeffrey Lang, Julia Pilant Trumpet Carl Albach, Edward Carroll Trombone Demian Austin, Nicholas Schwartz, Weston Sprott Tuba Derek Fenstermacher

Percussion So Percussion: Eric ChaBeach, Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting Orchestral Studies Leon Botstein, Erica Kiesewetter Chamber Music Marka Gustavsson, coordinator; Frank Corliss, Raymond Erickson, Luis Garcia-Renart,, Robert Martin, Blair McMillen, Raman Ramakrishnan Composition Da Capo Chamber Players Joan Tower, George Tsontakis Performance Studies Luis Garcia-Renart Music Theory and History Christopher H. Gibbs, John Halle, Peter Laki Alexander Technique Alexander Farkas *masterclasses GRADUATE PROGRAMS VOCAL ARTS (M.M. degree) Dawn Upshaw, Artistic Director, Vocal Coach Kayo Iwama, Associate Director, Vocal Coach Erika Switzer, Coordinator of Extracurricular Concerts Voice Edith Bers, Patricia Misslin, Lorraine Nubar, Sanford Sylvan Alexander Technique Gwen Ellison, Elizabeth Reese Opera Workshop Mary Birnbaum Acting Workshop Jack Ferver, Lynn Hawley Diction Erika Switzer Movement Amii LeGendre Professional Development Workshop Lucy Dhegrae ORCHESTRAL AND CHORAL CONDUCTING (M.M. degree) James Bagwell, Codirector Leon Botstein, Codirector Harold Farberman, Codirector Orchestral Conducting Leon Botstein, Harold Farberman Choral Conducting James Bagwell Composition Joan Tower Music History and Theory James Bagwell, Kyle Gann, Christopher H. Gibbs, Peter Laki Languages Bard College Faculty Secondary Instrument Bard College Faculty POSTGRADUATE COLLABORATIVE PIANO FELLOWSHIPS Frank Corliss, Director PREPARATORY DIVISION Ryan Kamm and Susanne Son, Codirectors Voice Meredith Lustig, Amy Palomo, Amy Travis

Violin Helena Baillie, Jaram Kim Cello Sean Katsuyama Double Bass Ryan Kamm Percussion David Degge Piano Erika Allen, Renana Gutman, Janara Khassenova, Luba Poliak, Susanne Son, Cynthia Tobey, Jingwen Tu, Wei Zhou Clarinet/Saxophone Ian Tyson Trombone Hsiao-Fang Lin Guitar David Temple Musicianship Katherine Balch, Hsiao-Fang Lin, David Temple Composition Katherine Balch, David Temple Early Childhood and Chorus Amy Travis Jazz Jessica Jones PARTICIPATING BARD MUSIC PROGRAM FACULTY James Bagwell, Program Director Jazz Studies Thurman Barker, John Esposito, Erica Lindsay Theory and Composition Kyle Gann Chamber Music Luis Garcia-Renart, Marka Gustavsson, Blair McMillen Musicology Alexander Bonus, Christopher H. Gibbs, Peter Laki Voice Rufus Müller Composition Richard Teitelbaum STUDENTS Composition Daniel Castellanos, New Jersey (Classics) Corey Chang, Connecticut* Joan Tower Composition Scholarship Luke Haaksma, North Carolina* Haoyue Luo, China* Jackson Spargur, California* Obadiah Wright, California (Religion) Piano James Berger, New York** Anna-Sofia Botti, Vermont* Ana Felicia Doni, Oregon (Human Rights) Bettina Baruch Foundation Scholarship Alexander Hamme, New Jersey* Peter Ittzes, Hungary* Bitó Scholarship Harrison Jarvis, Canada* Domantas Karalius, Lithuania* Martin & Toni Sosnoff Scholarship Jiangli Liu, China* Yihong Lu, Canada* Liam Mayo, Wisconsin* Fyodor Shiryaev, New York* Adam Zsolt Szokolay, Hungary* Belinda and Stephen Kaye Scholarship Yichun (Helen) Wu, China* G. de Las Heras Scholarship

The Bard College Conservatory of Music and John Cage Trust at Bard College present

Musicircus (1967) John Cage (1912–92) Emre Arapkirli, electronic and acoustic instruments Caitlin Beare ‘17, clarinet Chris Beroes-Haigis ‘18, cello Bridget Bertoldi ‘17, flute Alexander Bonus, piano Gene Caprioglio, guitar and vocals Joel Darelius, double bass and vocals Zachary Detrick, piano Addie Rose Forstman ‘19, voice Edward Forstman, piano Ann Gabler, spoken word Christopher Gebbia, piano Eva Grunblatt ‘22, bass clarinet Maximillian Hamel, modified and homemade electronic instruments Gretchen Kamm, violin Steven Kieley, saxophone Viveca Lawrie ‘22, trumpet Julie Licata, percussion Hsiao-Fang Lin ‘15, trombone Bob Lukomski, electronic and acoustic instruments Lizabeth Malanga ‘16, voice Emy Martin, amplified surface Robert Martin, cello James Mongan, guitar, voice Emma Neiman ‘19, flute Kristýna Petišková ‘18, clarinet Malachi Cherubini Purcell, harp, percussion Steven Roberts, electronic and acoustic instruments Matt Sargent, percussion Maeve Schallert ‘21, violin Doug Strich, harmonica and vocals David Temple, guitar Mia Theodoratus, harps, keyed glockenspiel, percussion Masami Tomihisa, toy piano,, zither harp, gamalan gongs, percussion Bettina Toth ‘22, harp

JongSun Woo ‘18, piano Alma Wosner, cello Yichun (Helen) Wu ‘21, piano Christian Yost, guitar Zongheng Zhang ‘21, violin Emily Fellner Zeig, accordion, trumpet and vocals Vocal Ensemble - Meredith Lustig, director Jack Bettigole, Isabella Boak-Kelly, Daisy Dundas, Betty Gibbs, Christina Grohowski, Iris Koester, Elischka Loewenhaar, Stella Prince, Peter Tarson, Maggie Teisler, Daniella Travaglione, Cosette VeederShave, Aili Zissu Bucket Ensemble - David Degge, director Luke Baylis, Hayden Bettigole, Fiona Boak-Kelly, Nora CallaghanJurgens, Maya Cortina, Jake Creelan, Sam Creelan, Orla Doherty, Ciel Haas, Ryan Hilliker, Isabel Luzzi, YiSheen Travaglione, Orli Wasserman

John Cage, Musicircus (1967) With the composition of his Musicircus – first staged on Nov. 17, 1967 in the Livestock Pavilion at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana – John Cage established several fundamental artistic concepts. He brought together a variety of friends – musicians and composers, filmmakers, dancers, and poets – into one large open space, casting them into a non-hierarchical, chanceinflected program. This was a happy, chaotic event, with lavish light and visual projections, the audience moving freely about. Cage didn’t restrict what might be played. As he put it, “In a Musicircus you have the right to bring together all kinds of music, since we’re no longer worried about what there is to be heard. It’s no longer a question of aesthetics. Art should introduce us to life.”

Cage was a benign anarchist, particularly concerned that the production and experience of music be entirely open and democratic. Despite the pervasive multiplicity and simultaneity of sounds, each individual performer in a Musicircus maintains striking autonomy and at any given moment can be the legitimate focus of honor and attention.

Now in its 50th year, Cage’s Musicircus has seen realizations all over the world – San Francisco, Chicago, Melbourne, New York, Glasgow, Porto Alegre, Los Angeles, Turin, Cologne, Seattle, London, Paris, and innumerable cities in between. Now Annandale-on-Hudson takes its rightful place on this ever-growing list. The John Cage Trust is happy to join with musicians from the Bard College Conservatory of Music and its extended community for a celebratory performance of this historically significant and gloriously anarchic work.

John Cage (1912-1992) was a singularly inventive, highly influential, and much beloved American composer, writer, philosopher, and visual artist.

Beginning around 1950, and throughout the passing years, he departed from the pragmatism of precise musical notation and circumscribed ways of performance. His principal contribution to the history of music is his systematic establishment of the principle of indeterminacy. And by adapting Zen Buddhist practices to composition and performance, Cage succeeded in bringing both authentic spiritual ideas and a liberating attitude of play to the enterprise of Western art. In an effort to reduce the subjective element in composition, he developed methods of selecting the components of his pieces by chance, early on through the tossing of coins and later through the use of IC (1984), a random number generator designed and written by Cage’s programmer-assistant, Andrew Culver, to simulate the coin oracle of the I Ching. Cage’s use of the computer was creative and procedural, and resulted in a system of what can easily be seen as total serialism, in which all musical elements (pitch, duration, amplitude, tempi) could be determined by referring to previously drawn correlated charts. Thus, Cage’s works did not originate in psychology, motive, drama, or literature, but, rather, were just sounds, free of judgments about whether they’re musical or not, free of fixed relations, free of memory and taste.

By the end of his life, Cage’s aesthetic of chance led to the creation of a unique body of “once-only” works, any two performances of which can never be quite the same. His most enduring, indeed notorious, composition, influenced by Robert Rauschenberg’s monochromatic paintings, is the radically tacet 4’33” (1952). Encouraging the ultimate freedom in musical expression, no sounds are intentionally produced across its three movements, which are indicated by the opening and closing of the piano key cover. The work was first performed on Aug. 29, 1952, by the extraordinarily gifted pianist David Tudor, at Maverick Hall in Woodstock, N.Y. The John Cage Trust ( JCT), created to oversee the use of the published and unpublished work of one of the 20th century’s most important composers, writers, and artists, has a permanent residence at Bard College. The Trust’s holdings—which include scores, recordings, texts, artworks, Cage’s personal library, and ephemera—are accessible to scholars, students, faculty, and the general public. The JCT also generates courses, workshops, and concerts, as well as other educational activities and programs.

The Bard College Conservatory of Music Robert Martin, Director Frank Corliss, Associate Director Recognized as one of the finest conservatories in the United States, The Bard College Conservatory of Music, founded in 2005, is guided by the principle that musicians should be broadly educated in the liberal arts and sciences to achieve their greatest potential. All undergraduates complete two degrees over a five-year period: a bachelor of music and a bachelor of arts in a field other than music. The Conservatory Orchestra has performed twice at Lincoln Center, and has completed three international concert tours: in June 2012 to China, Hong Kong, and Taiwan; in June 2014 to Russia and six cities in Central and Eastern Europe; and in June 2016 to three cities in Cuba.

The Graduate Vocal Arts Program is a two-year master of music degree conceived by soprano Dawn Upshaw. The course work is designed to support a broad-based approach to a singing career that extends from standard repertory to new music. Alongside weekly voice lessons, diction, and repertory courses is training in acting, as well as core seminars that introduce and tie together the historical/cultural perspective, analytical tools, and performance skills that distinguish vocal and operatic performance at the highest level.

The Graduate Conducting Program, orchestral and choral, is a two-year curriculum that culminates in the master of music degree. The program is directed by conductor Harold Farberman; James Bagwell, director of Bard’s undergraduate Music Program; and Leon Botstein, president of Bard College, music director and principal conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra, and conductor laureate of the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra.

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The Conservatory gratefully acknowledges the generous support of these recent donors: Christy Andrade Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Jane Evelyn Atwood ’70 Erica Ball ’11 Margaret Bates Simone Belda Byron and Susan Bell Jean Benkert Vern Bergelin Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation,Inc. Bettina Baruch Foundation Dr. László Z. Bitó ‘60 and Olivia Cariño Robert and Susan Blacker Frances Brent Alfred M. Buff and Lenore Nemeth Marianne Burhans Camphill Ghent, Inc. Pilar Conde and Alfonso Lledo-Perez The Cosmopolitan Club Ellen Curtis Arnold J. Davis ‘44 Georgia and Michael de Havenon Kathy and Gonzalo de Las Heras Rosemary Deen Paula Deitz Maria and James Demis Cornelia Z. and Timothy Eland Joan S. Faber Alexander Farkas Mildred and Arnold Feinsilber Robert A. Feldman Allen C. Fischer and Renate Belville FOSUN International Raymond Foye The Fred Stein Family Foundation Nina Friedman Friends of Beattie-Powers Place Friends of Chamber Music of Reading Luc Gagnon Luis Garcia-Renart Peter and Charlene Gay GE Foundation Lauren Gerken Christopher H. Gibbs Robert Goldfarb ‘59 Goldman Sachs Gives Frances Goodwin

Bruce Gordon Katherine Gould-Martin and Robert L. Martin Nan and David Greenwood Barbara Grossman and Michael Gross Marka Gustavsson and John Halle Roger Gustavsson and Louise Reinecke Vicki Haak and Spero Chumas Louis and Caroline Haber Morris Halle Cathey Heron Alan Hilliker and Vivien Liu Jeremy Hirsch ‘15 Susan B. Hirschhorn and Arthur Klebanoff Stacy Hoppen Robert Hoven Elena and Frederic Howard Hudson Valley Chamber Music Circle Andrew Humphrey IBM Matching Grants Program Morimi and Midori Iwama Veronica Jacobs George and Karen Jahn Donna and Carroll Janis John Cage Trust Zoe Johnson ‘16 Belinda and Stephen Kaye Ruth Ketay and Rene Schnetzler David and Janet E. Kettler Erica Kiesewetter April Kinser Anthony D. Korner Richard Kortright and Claudia Rosti Garry and Diane Kvistad Gary and Edna Lachmund Alison L. and John C. Lankenau Victoria and Douglas Larson Glenda Fowler Law and Alfred Law Doris Lee Tania J. Leon The Leonard & Evelyn Lauder Fund of the Lauder Foundation

Michael and Monica Jakuc Leverett Lifetime Learning Institute at Bard Helen and William Little Y.S. Liu Jacques and Catherine Luiggi Harvey Marek Don Marrazzo Ann McChord Andrew McKee John and Patricia McNulty Yvonne Mayer Arthur Michaels Karen Moeller and Charles Talleur The Mona Foundation William and Henrietta Morlock Shawn Moore ‘11 Ken and Lindsay Morgan Matthew Morris, ’12 Donn Mosenfelder and Frances Goodwin Martin L. and Lucy Miller Murray Leslie M. Nelson Suzanne Neusner New Albion Records Marta and Fernando Nottebohm Elizabeth J. and Sevgin Oktay Robert Opatrny Larry Osgood Marilyn and Peter Oswald Richard Pargament ‘65 Pepsico Foundation Adrienne Pierce Platte Clove Community Barbara Post Nora Post Robert and Amy Poster D. Miles Price Frank and Mary Pushkar Lillian Pyne-Corbin Tricia and Foster Reed Stanley and Elaine Reichel Frances Reilly Cathy and Fred Reinis Rhinebeck Chamber Music Society Barbara J. Ritchie Peter Roncetti Donald Rothfeld Max Rutten and Valerie Keller Myrna Sameth

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The Fisher Center and the Bard College Conservatory of Music in association with Upstate Films presents

LIVE WITH THE BARD COLLEGE CONSERVATORY ORCHESTRA A benefit for the Bard College Conservatory of Music Score by Bernard Herrmann Conducted by James Bagwell Film courtesy of Paramount Pictures

Saturday, September 16 at 8 pm Sunday, September 17 at 2 pm Sosnoff Theater Tickets: $25 –75; Upstate Films’ 45th anniversary ticket $125 (includes a membership to Upstate Films)

845-758-7900 | fishercenter.bard.edu Image: Paramount Pictures

(continued from front cover JongSun Woo, South Korea** ChaoJun Yang, China* Violin Tianpei Ai, China* Sebastian Carrasco, California* Helli Fang, Massachusetts* Tristan Flores, Massachusetts* Anna Hallett, Pennsylvania* Valory Hight, Virginia* George I. Alden Scholarship Gigi Hsueh, Taiwan* Bihan Li, China* Luis Garcia-Renart Scholarship Xinran Li, China* Zhen Liu, China* Gitta Markó, Hungary* Bitó Scholarship Liliya Milcheva, Bulgaria* Avery Morris, California (Mathematics) Leonardo Pineda, Venezuela** Eliot Roske, Texas* Maeve Schallert, California* Gergő Tóth, Hungary** Alex van der Veen, California* Xinyi Wang, China* Luis Garcia-Renart Scholarship Xinyue Wang, China* Luis Garcia-Renart Scholarship Weiqiao Wu, China** Hanni Xie, China* Zongheng Zhang, China* Y.S. Liu Foundation Scholarship Viola Joseph Burke, New Jersey* Andrew Carlson, South Dakota* Mercer Greenwald, Massachusetts* Javen Lara, New York* George Martin/Hans Thatcher Clarke Scholarship Mengshen Li, China* Weilan Li, China* Alexandra Morris, California (Computer Science) Matthew Norman, Virginia** Yushi Pan, China* Hsin-Fang Wu, Taiwan* Taylor Yeatts, Florida* Cello Christopher Beroes-Haigis, New York** Christina Jones, New Jersey* Roman Lewcun, Pennsylvania** Nathan Matsubara, Czech Republic* Lily Moerschel, Massachusetts* Emily Munstedt, Massachusetts* Mischa Schneider Scholarship Chang Pan, China** Kaila Piscitelli, Connecticut* Mariya Zabara, Belarus*

Bass Andrew Behrens, New York** Baylor Brown, Colorado* Rowan Puig Davis, Puerto Rico* Stephen Jones, New York** Rebeka Máté, Hungary* Nathaniel Savage, Rhode Island* Kevin Schmidt, New York** Harp Bettina Tóth, Hungary* Bitó Scholarship Flute Isabela Cruz-Vespa, Texas* Mais Hriesh, Palestine/Israel (Human Rights) Clara Kempter, North Carolina* Emma Neiman, California (Sociology) Gabriela Rosado Torres, Puerto Rico* Oboe Amy Cassiere, Louisiana* Jihyun (James) Kim, South Korea** Theresa Lin, Taiwan** Cree Vitti, New York* Clarinet Andrei Sergiu Cebotari, Romania* Eva Grunblatt, New York* Karolina Krajewska, Poland* Jingyu Mao, China (Economics) Kristýna Petišková, Czech Republic* Anya Swinchoski, New Jersey* Viktor Tóth, Hungary** Bassoon Gabrielle Hartman, Iowa* Horn Zachary McIntyre, New Jersey* Liri Ronen, Israel* Andrew Warfield, Tennesee** Claire Worsey, California (French Studies) Trumpet Claudiu Cebotari, Romania* Guillermo Garcia Cuesto, Spain** Viveca Lawrie, Arizona* Shanhui Sun, China* Anita Tóth, Hungary** Trombone Yu-Tien Chou, Taiwan* William Freeman, New York* Marco Jaimes, New Jersey* Henry Shankweiler, Pennsylvania* Conghao (Natty) Tian, China* Michael Ventoso, New Jersey*

Tuba Evan Petratos, South Carolina* Aidan Zimmermann, Texas** Percussion David Degge, Illinois^^ Samuel Gohl, New Hampshire* Juliana Maitenaz, New York* Benjamin Malinski, Pennsylvania (Written Arts and Russian Studies) Dániel Matei, Hungary (Italian Studies) John Cage Trust Scholarship Meilin Wei, China* Hilliker Family Scholarship Graduate Vocal Arts Program Addie Rose Brown, Pennsylvania Eric Carey, New York Mark Chan, California Jonathan Comfort, New York Elaine Daiber, Massachusetts Rachel Doehring, Texas SarahAnn Duffy, New York Angela Hendryx, Iowa Luke MacMillan, Oregon Margaret Sun-Ly Pierce, New York Tatum Robertson, Louisiana Chloe Schaaf, New York Paulina Swierczek, Canada Natalie Trumm, Wisconsin Seol Ah Yoo, South Korea Graduate Conducting Program Maurice Cohn Pavlos Kordis, Greece Renee Louprette Michael McCarty, New York Jackson McKinnon, Texas Michael Patterson Ben Ruesch, Massachusetts Collaborative Piano Fellows Hannah Harnest, United/Germany Szu-Ying Huang, Taiwan Yu-Yuan Huang, Taiwan** Hsin-Chiao Liao, Taiwan Florence Ah Yan Mak, Canada Samuel Oram, Massachusetts Tomoki Park, Korea/Japan** Wan-Shyuan Wu, Taiwan** * Second major not yet declared ** Advanced Performance Studies Program ^^ Percussion Fellow

UPCOMING EVENTS

Tuesday, September 12, 12 pm, László Z. Bitó ‘60 Conservatory Building Noon Concert Bard College Conservatory students in an hour-long concert. Free admission.

Saturday, September 16, 2017, 8 pm, and Sunday, September 17, 2 pm, Fisher Center, Sosnoff Theater Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo Live A benefit performance for the Bard College Conservatory of Music.

Score by Bernard Herrmann Performed live by the Bard College Conservatory of Music Orchestra. Conducted by James Bagwell. See fishercenter.bard.edu for tickets, or call the box office at 845-758-7900.

Saturday, September 23, 1:00 pm nature walk and 2:00 pm concert, Montgomery Place, Mansion Music and Nature at Montgomery Place Chamber music by John Cage, John Luther Adams, and Toru Takemitsu performed outdoors at the mansion by Bard Conservatory students.

1 p.m. Pre-concert Wildlife and Ecology Walk on the grounds of Montgomery Place with Assistant Professor Bruce Robertson.

Reception to follow. Free admission.

Sunday, September 24, 3:00 pm, László Z. Bitó ‘60 Conservatory Building Faculty Recital: Raymond Erickson, harpsichord Raymond Erickson, harpsichord, performing (Mostly) Music by Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750). Free admission.

Tuesday, September 26, 12 pm, László Z. Bitó ‘60 Conservatory Building Noon Concert Bard College Conservatory students in an hour-long concert. Free admission.

Saturday, September 30, 7pm, László Z. Bitó ‘60 Conservatory Building Da Capo Chamber Players perform works by young composers including Pascal Le Boeuf, Mike Bono, Will Healy, and Scott Lee. For the full concert calendar see www.bard.edu/conservatory or call the concert hotline at 845-752-2380.