Announcement: John Cage festival in Amsterdam

>Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2003 15:58:24 +0100
>From: John Snijders
>Organization: Ives Ensemble
>Newsgroups: rec.music.classical.contemporary

On 14, 15 & 16 February 2003 the Ives Ensemble, in collaboration with de
IJsbreker, organizes a festival under the title:

John Cage: PUUR TOEVAL (PURE CHANCE)

10 pieces will be played in various locations throughout Amsterdam:

Cheap Imitation for 24 players (1969-72, Dutch première)

How to Pass, Kick, Fall and Run (1967) en Solo for
Piano (1957-58)

Sixty-eight (1992, Dutch première)

Atlas Eclipticalis (1961-62)

A Book of Music (1944)

Speech 1955 (1955)

Telephones & Birds (1977)

Freeman Etudes I - XVI (1977-80)

Solos for Voice (1958-70) and Cartridge Music
(1960)

Sixteen Dances (1950-51) (world premiere of a new choreography by Ton
Simons)

played by:
IVES ENSEMBLE
with: Henny Stoel, Jan Timman, Joop van Zijl,
Hans Ree, Ian McDiarmid, Ton Simons, Richard
Rijnvos, John Snijders, Mylene D'Anjou, Marcel
Beekman, Francine van der Heijden, Josje ter
Haar, Janneke van Prooijen, Bas Wiegers, Marc
Sabat, Magnus Robb, Piet Jan van Rossum,
Reinier van Houdt, Roy Slaterus, Ilse Schrama,
Dance Works Rotterdam, Students Brabants
Conservatorium and members of the Ricciotti
Ensemble

more information: http://www.ives-ensemble.nl and
http://www.ysbreker.nl

John Snijders

While it is great that they are doing a Cage festival with the Ijsbreker, I
can't help remember how the Ijsbreker refuses to do an all-Partch festival.
I was told they only want to do new music, works that have never been done
before. It seems there is a double standard here, when the musicians are
Dutch. There was no interest in Partch, but yes to Cage. Hmmn... Johnny
Reinhard

Yeah, I don't know the reason behind it, but I doubt that
the nationality of the musicians has anything to do with it.
Often being foreign works as a recommendation here.
There are plenty of musicians who were being taken serious
only after having success abroad.

Manuel