[silence] Amelia Cuni performs Cage ragas

[Richard Friedman]

It was a spectacular performance. Amelia combined the Ragas with some
some of Cage's other short theater pieces for solo performer.  It was
something we rarely see on stage any more. And while the visual aspect
is very important to the piece, the new CD, released last week, is
just as wonderful. Amelia has worked on this for years, and its great
to see it finally come to light.

We had an audience of about 300, and the performance was very well
received, altho I didn't see any reviewers from the print media.

We did make a fixed-position video recording, but I haven't seen it
yet. If it's usable we might be able to put some of it on the Other
Minds website.



On Nov 5, 2007 10:31 AM, Rob Haskins <rob_haskins@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> I've talked to Amelia a couple of times--I thought originally through the
> Silence list--she is very serious about her work and has performed the ragas
> in Germany and also in New York.  I'm very eager to hear what she does with
> them.
>
> Best,
> Rob
>
>
>
> Rob Haskins
> Assistant Professor of Music
> University of New Hampshire
> rob_haskins@yahoo.com
> http://robhaskins.net
> http://musicandmiscellaneous.blogspot.com/
>
>
> "Heroism doesn't consist in brilliantly combatting someone else. . . .  What
> is heroic is to accept the situation in which you find yourself."  -- John
> Cage
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Josh Ronsen <joshronsen@yahoo.com>
> To: silence@list.mail.virginia.edu
> Sent: Monday, November 5, 2007 1:33:37 AM
> Subject: [silence] Amelia Cuni performs Cage ragas
>
>  I don't remember seeing mention of this before today:
>
> http://www.otherminds.org/shtml/Cageragas.shtml
>
> There are 3 brief .mp3 samples to download of the CD.
>
> "John Cage wrote his 18 Microtonal Ragas after years of immersing
> himself in Indian music and philosophy. Nearly forty years later,
> Italian-German dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni, with extensive training in
> both the European and Indian classical traditions, interprets this work
> that could have been written for her special artistry. She will perform
> the complete Solo 58 from Song Books, combined with numerous
> performances of other solos from the same collection, with
> percussionists Raymond Kaczynski and Federico Sanesi, and Werner Durand
> establishing both the traditional Indian drones specially created to
> accompany the microtonal ragas, and performing on electronics."
>
> -Josh Ronsen
> in Austin, Texas
>
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Richard Friedman
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