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Don't miss this!! Other Minds Presents
In association with the Italian Cultural Institute of San Francisco and the Goethe-Institut San Francisco
John Cage: 18 Microtonal Ragas
“Solo for Voice 58” from Song Books (1970)
Featuring dhrupad vocalist Amelia Cuni
Friday, November 2, 2007 8:00 pm
St. John’s Presbyterian Church
2727 College Avenue (3 blocks north of Ashby)
Berkeley, California
Tickets $25 (available now from Brown Paper Tickets or by calling 1.800.838.3006)
Amelia Cuni, dhrupad vocals
Werner Durand, drones/electronics
Federico Sanesi, percussion
Raymond Kaczynski, percussion
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.
“Amelia Cuni’s world premiere of Cage’s 18 Microtonal Ragas was certainly on the outer fringe of experimentation ... Illustrating a unique relationship between tradition and experimentation, the performance pointed a way out of the ghetto of serious art music in an investigation of cultural cross-fertilisation between east and west.” —Deutsche Welle Kulturmagazin, 2006
“Amelia Cuni and her accompanists turned the cycle into an enjoyable and humorous Happening. They offered up Cage’s music in such a wholehearted way that both devotees of Cage and Indian music were equally satisfied.” —Deutschlandradio Kultur, 2006
“These pieces seem to be written for Amelia Cuni: a classical trained Indian singer, who is able to improvise on ragas in a new music context—a very rare combination indeed!” —Ulrich Krieger
Complete information is at the Other Minds website.
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