[silence] Mode Bulletin 3.08

[Brian Brandt]

Welcome to Mode's Third Bulletin of 2008.

In this Bulletin:
. Mode's "Anti-Recession Sale" is back 16 February - 16 March (details 
below)
. Mode's Cage Edition reaches Volume 39, and...
. Join pianists Rob Haskins and Laurel Karlik Sheehan at New York City's 
Merkin Hall to launch their new Cage CD
. Available again: the 5-CD set of Morton FELDMAN's String Quartet II 
(mode 112)


  Mode's ANTI-RECESSION SALE 2 (16 February through 16 March)


      What could be more patriotic than to use your "stimulus check" to
      hear some New Music!


      $12 for each CD, $15 for each DVD.


      Buy 5 or more and shipping is FREE in the USA!!
      (Outside of the USA: buy 5 or more and shipping is 1/2 price!)



  NEW FOR FEBRUARY: John Cage's "Two2"

Mode 193
The Complete JOHN CAGE EDITION, VOLUME 39
JOHN CAGE   
The Number Pieces 5

Two2 (1989) for two pianos
Rob Haskins and Laurel Karlik Sheehan, pianos

. Laurel Karlik Sheehan gave the Canadian premiere of Two2 with Jack 
Behrens in 1990. Rob Haskins is a respected Cage expert and scholar. 
Together they bring an authority and expertise to this performance of Two2.

. In most of the Number Pieces, all the performers have some freedom 
through Cage's use of time brackets: flexible measures that show a range 
of possible starting and ending times. The time bracket system of 
notation used in these works allows a certain amount of flexibility in 
the performance: individual notes or chords may always occur in the same 
general time frame, but their specific order and duration varies 
slightly and unpredictably from performance to performance. In this way 
Cage could create a new kind of harmony of "...several sounds... being 
noticed at the same time."

. Cage based Two2 on renga, a Japanese poetic design of five, seven, 
five, seven, and seven syllables expressed at least thirty-six times. 
Each line of music is divided into five measures, just like the five 
lines of the poetry. The first measure contains five separate musical 
events - chords or single tones, usually shared between the two pianists 
- which correspond to the five syllables of the first line; the second 
measure has seven events, and so on. There are a total of thirty-six 
such five-measure sections in the piece. While the pianists can take any 
amount of time to perform each measure, each pianist must wait until 
both have finished the same measure before proceeding to the next.

. Given this flexibility, Haskins and Karlik Sheehan's performance is 
the longest of the recordings to date - emphasizing the sense of 
spaciousness and interest in harmony that marks many of Cage's late pieces.

. Liner notes by Rob Haskins.

. 24-bit high definition recording.

Rob Haskins and Laurel Karlik Sheehan perform Cage in New York City
To launch their new release, the artists will perform at Merkin Concert 
Hall on Thursday, 28 February at 8pm
An evening of two late works by John Cage to celebrate their CD release 
of Cage's Two2, for two pianos, on the Mode Records label. The program 
is comprised of Four6 (1992) -- to be performed by Sheehan, Haskins, 
Brent Reidy and Barry Sheehan -- and Two2 (1989).


BACK IN STOCK:
Morton FELDMAN: String Quartet II - The Flux Quartet
The 5-cd set of Feldman's infamous 6-hour string quartet is now back in 
stock.
Also available as the complete performance on 1-DVD in 24-bit sound (no 
discs to change).
http://www.moderecords.com/catalog/112feldman.html
The 5-CD set during the sale: $48, after the sale: $59.96
or, on 1-DVD during the sale: $30, after the sale: $39.98

 

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