[silence] Radio Premiere of Twenty-Eight Sought

[Glenn Freeman]

Is anyone here interested in helping to arrange the radio premiere of  
John Cage's "Twenty-Eight" to coincide with OgreOgress' 7th John Cage  
Number Piece release? If so, please contact me soon. Info on the  
piece, and this release, can be found below.

http://www.johncage.info/workscage/twentyeight.html

John Cage: Three, Twenty-Eight / Susanna Borsch, Prague Winds

Thirteenth in a series featuring previously unreleased works by well- 
known composers, this 96kHz|24bit Audio DVD contains the world  
premiere recording of John Cage's Twenty-Eight.

James Pritchett describes Twenty-eight (1991) as scored for wind  
ensemble, but the instrumentation actually resembles more closely the  
triple- or quadruple winds of the nineteenth-century large orchestra.  
(This impression gains credence because the work can be combined with  
Twenty-six and Twenty-nine [both 1991] to form a single work for large  
orchestra.) The piece makes for an interesting contrast with Cage's  
final wind work, Fifty-eight. He associated the instrumentation of the  
latter with bands and "the kind of loudness that we think of in  
relation to celebration and joy". The earlier Twenty-eight, however,  
consists of single pitches the amplitude of which varies from p to  
ppp. In other works involving winds from the same time - for instance,  
Five4 for saxophones and percussion (1991) - he specifically requested  
an extreme range of loud and soft dynamics. But Twenty-eight resembles  
more closely the poignant serenity of such compositions as One5 for  
piano (1990) - a work which Cage suggested might be played so that it  
is barely audible. In that sense, Twenty-eight remains one of the most  
striking of his Number Pieces for large ensembles. (excerpted from  
liner notes by Rob Haskins)

Glenn Freeman
OgreOgress productions
http://cdbaby.com/group/ogreogress