collected stories: memoir

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Carnegie Hall: Zankel Hall New York City, New York, United States

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Programme

Cage, John (1912-1992)	Indeterminacy
Cage, John (1912-1992)	27'10.554"
Lang, David (b. 1957)	Mystery Sonatas

Performers

Paul Lazar	Actor
Steve Schick	Percussion
Augustin Hadelich	Violin
David Lang	Director

Holder of this season's Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair, David Lang serves as director in this culmination of his collected stories series. The program pairs the world premiere of Lang’s mystery sonatas with John Cage’s massive percussion piece that explores the relationship between sound and silence, as well as Cage's Indeterminacy, a performance art piece where stories are recited from 90 randomly selected cue cards, each being read over the course of exactly one minute regardless of length.

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collected stories draws to a close with John Cage and a David Lang world première

Rebecca Lentjes, 29th April

David Lang’s curated series collected stories drew to a close with three works by John Cage, including his autobiographical lecture Indeterminacy of 1958, performed simultaneously, and the world première of Lang’s own mystery sonatas, the only work of his own to be programmed for the series.

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