Oeuvre: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

Dans un one woman show décapant qui alterne pièces de musique contemporaine, sketchs comico-réflexifs et moments participatifs, la soprano suscite autant de rires que d'admiration.

Almost as remarkable as John Cage's actual music is how varied it is. Nothing obvious connects The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, a beautifully simple four-note piece for soprano and piano lid, to Four Solos for voice, a late work in which four singers independently do a series of strange things at the same time.

For most of us, the word ‘experimental’ probably provokes images of brass instruments filled with washing-up liquid or electrically manipulated sneezing sounds. But experimental doesn’t have to mean mental: it can simply refer to something original, something done differently.