Work: The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs

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.

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.