[silence] New Mode Cage Edition release and NYC concert on February 28th

[Brian Brandt]

Dear Silencers
Thought you might be interested in Mode's latest Cage release with Rob 
Haskins and Laurel Karlik Sheehan, and their NYC concert on February 28.
Regards
Brian Brandt
www.moderecords.com


Mode 193  (on sale for $12 through March 16, $14.99 after) *
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
Kaufman Center's Merkin Concert Hall
129 West 67th Street, New York City

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).


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