BBC Radio 3, The Barbican, London, January 16–18, 2004

January 16.

Concert 1: Schuman, New England Triptych; Cage, The Seasons; Cowell,

Concerto for Piano and Orchestra; Antheil, A Jazz Symphony; Ives, Central

Park in the Dark; Copland, El Salón México; Cage, 4_33_

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Lawrence Foster, Philip Mead (piano)

Concert 2: Feldman, Piano; Wolff, Bread and Roses; Schoenberg, Piano Pieces

Op. 33a & b; Cage, Solo for Piano

Nicholas Hodges (piano)

January 17.

Concert 3: Cage, String Quartet in Four Parts; Four

Duke Quartet

Concert 4: Varèse, Amériques; Cage, Aria; Satie, Parade; Ruggles, Sun-Treader;

Cage, Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music and Cartridge Music

BBC Symphony Orchestra/David Porcelijn, Loré Lixenberg (soprano),

John Tilbury (piano), Sound Intermedia (sound design)

Concert 5: Cage, Imaginary Landscape No. 3; Construction in Metal No.1; Living

Room Music; Credo in US; Child of Tree; Tudor, Rainforest; Garland, The Three

Strange Angels; Cowell, Ostinato Pianissimo; Cage, Construction in Metal No. 3

January 18.

Concert 6: Cage, Variations 1 for Stephen Montague; Choral music by Billings,

Virgil Thomson, Hovhaness, Ives, Randall Thompson; Cage: prepared piano

works

BBC Symphony Chorus/Stephen Jackson, Rolf Hind (prepared piano),

Deborah Miles-Johnson (mezzo-soprano)

Concert 7: Feldman, Madame Press Died Last Week; Cage, Concerto for

Prepared Piano; Wolff, Spring (UK premiere); Brown, Centering; Cage,

Apartment House 1776 (UK premiere of original version)

London Sinfonietta/David Porcelijn, Clio Gould (violin), Ralph van Raat

(prepared piano)

Concert 8: Cage, Song Books, songs and piano pieces; Harrison, Symphony

No. 4; Feldman, Cello and Orchestra; Cage, 101 (UK premiere)

BBC Symphony Orchestra/Pierre-André Valade, Rolf Hind (piano), Frances

M. Lynch, Nicole Tibbels (sopranos), Paul Watkins (cello), Annilese

Miskimmon (director)

The three-day festival also included performances of Cage's Musicircus,

Satie's Vexations, and several films and discussions.