[silence] Cage-related concert info NYC Dec 4

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MARC THORMAN

ORIGINAL COMPOSITIONS FOR PIANO AND RECORDINGS

Thursday, December 4, 1:00 PM
Levensen Hall at Brooklyn College

Questions and Answers (2007)
for Piano and Recordings

Each of the six parts is a question and answer from John Cage's Q&A session 
at Harvard University, following his readings there in 1989 for the Norton 
Chair Lectures. The piano part is based on the speech rhythms and exaggerated 
pitch contours of Cage and his questioners.

1. Was It a Joke?
2. Empty Paintings
3. Hunting for Mushrooms
4. A Clam Went Up
5. Do Something for Music
6. Freedom from Memory

Three Etudes (2008)
1. Panic
  The Great God Pan. Clusters. Stomping.
2. Crossing
  A slow melody in low register is repeated in middle and high registers, 
each time                     transposed up a half-step. Meanwhile, cartoon 
birdsongs go the opposite direction.
3. Chopin
  Chopin finds a parallel universe where G Major and G-flat Major are the 
same key


Signalling with Light (2001)
   Coded messages in overlapping rhythmic patterns, close up and far away

Marc Thorman studied composition with Charles Dodge and David del Tredici and 
piano with Michael Rodgers at City University of New York. He graduated with 
a doctoral degree in music composition from CUNY in 2002, and has taught at 
CUNY colleges and other New York music institutions since 1994. Professor 
Thorman's works on text and speech in Cage's compositions earned the Barry Brook 
Award for outstanding doctoral dissertation, and he has published articles on 
Cage's work in this area. Prof. Thorman was awarded a scholarship to study 
computer music at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, received a commission 
from Meet the Composer for a children's opera, and was twice the recipient of 
Brooklyn College's John Cage Award for experimental composition.


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