[AMS-announce] CONF: Cage symposium & concert, Univ. of New Hampshire, 8 Sep 2007

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To celebrate John Cage's 95th birthday (and the 15th anniversary of his death), the music department of the University of New Hampshire is hosting a one-day symposium and concert on September 8, 2007 in the Paul Creative Arts Center (30 College Rd., Durham, NH 03824). The conference is co-sponsored by UNH's College of Liberal Arts and the Center for the Humanities.

Here is a short version of the program:


John Cage in 2007: Reception, Performance Practice, Analysis

Symposium, 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., M-223, Paul Creative Arts Center, UNH

Our Memory of What Happened is Not What Happened: Cage and the Power of Myth
Brent Reidy, Ph.D. candidate, Musicology, Indiana University

On John Cage's Late Music, Analysis, and the Model of Renga in Two2
Rob Haskins, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Music, UNH

Interdeterminacy and Performance Practice in Cage?s _Variations_
David P. Miller, Boston, MA

Thinking About Cage and Nature, Back Then and Right Now
David Andrew, Ph.D., Professor of Art History, UNH

Concert, 8:00 p.m., Bratton Recital Hall, Paul Creative Arts Center, UNH

Music for One
Margaret Herlehy, Oboe

Four6
Rob Haskins, David Miller, Laurel Karlik Sheehan, and Brent Reidy, performers

Two2
Rob Haskins and Laurel Karlik Sheehan, pianos

For further information, please e-mail rob.haskins at unh.edu.