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Title: questions: compositions on Cage and Ives
Music by: David Bohn,
James Bohn,
Alexander Uriyah Boskovich,
Howard Kenty,
Jeff Morris,
Kevin Schlei,
Alan Shockley,
Jerod Sommerfeldt,
Stephen Wilcox, &
Yehuda Yannay,
Format: CD Audio
Year: 2009
Catalog Number: bmc 002
Price: $16
1908: Charles Ives composes The Unanswered Question.
1958: John Cage delivers a lecture entitled "Communication" at Darmstadt. It consists of nothing but questions.
2008: questions.
Nine composers were invited to create pieces reflecting on Ives and Cage, resulting in a collection of ten unique compositions, including
Bayannayab (Yannay),
Psalm (Boskovich / Yannay),
Perish (James Bohn),
Stride (Sommerfeldt),
Fractal Construction No. 1 (Schlei),
Only An Ephemeral Coherence, Cast Forth From Inscrutable Disorder?!?!? (Kenty),
Hommage (David Bohn),
Non-Connubial Sigh (Wilcox),
RUhere (Morris), &
. . . to an unnamed beneficiary (Shockley).
The collection features performances by
Christopher Adler,
Lisa Cella,
Joseph Damian Foley,
Ian Greitzer, William Helmers,
Howard Kenty, Jayne Latva,
Friedrich Lips,
Ed Owen,
Morris Palter,
Alan Shockley, &
Stas Venglevski.