John Cage News

REDCAT (the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) welcomes back to its theater The California E.A.R. Unit performing a one-night engagement of world premieres entitled The Lindas on Saturday, October 10, 2009.

REDCAT (the Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) welcomes back to its theater The California E.A.R. Unit performing a one-night engagement of world premieres entitled The Lindas on Saturday, October 10, 2009.

The NYC400 is the first-ever list of New York City's ultimate movers and shakers since the City's founding?from politics, the arts, business, sports, science, and entertainment.

The Hartt School is proud to announce its 2009-2010 Instrumental Studies Division performance schedule. Please call the University Box Office at 860.768.4228 or 800.274.8587 or visit www.hartford.edu/hartt for ticket prices and up-to-date scheduling information.

The New York Times reports the sad news that acclaimed choreographer Merce Cunningham has died at the age of 90.

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (ATRU) and the Sara Lee Foundation proudly present the world-renowned Nederlands Dans Theater I (NDT), which brings ATRU's 2008 - 2009 International Dance Series to a thrilling conclusion with performances June 16 and 17. Tickets are now on sale.

On Monday, June 15, 2009 at 7:30 PM, an all-star cast will take to the stage for a one-night-only benefit performance of 'COME RAIN OR COME SHINE: Celebrating the Songs of Johnny Mercer.' The event will take place at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, in the West Village. All proceeds from the event will benefit GREENWICH HOUSE MUSIC School's music education programs and assist with vital facility upgrades.

On Monday, June 15, 2009 at 8PM, an all-star cast will take to the stage for a one-night-only benefit performance of COME RAIN OR COME SHINE: Celebrating the Songs of Johnny Mercer. The event will take place at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, in the West Village. All proceeds from the event will benefit GREENWICH HOUSE MUSIC School's music education programs and assist with vital facility upgrades.

Thomas W. Morris, artistic director of the Ojai Music Festival and Ojai's 2009 music director eighth blackbird have announced the final programming for the 2009 Ojai Music Festival, which takes place from Thursday, June 11 to Sunday, June 14, 2009. This season, the four-day Festival, which for six decades has become well known for its fearlessness in championing pioneering musical ideas and personalities, pushes the envelope again with programming that reflects the qualities that have made eighth blackbird a growing musical phenomenon-genre-defying variety in wildly collaborative and visually dramatic presentations.

Danspace Project will present Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks/ROOT CULTURE in the debut of 'Not About Romanian Cinema: POONARC' from June 4 to 13, 2009 as part of its City/Dans series. This next installment in Chuma's ten year project, 'A Page Out of Order' (culminating in 2011), features artists of all disciplines from Japan, Romania and the USA. The word 'POONARC' in the title is an acronym for 'Page Out of Order Not About Romanian Cinema.'

On Monday, June 15, 2009 at 7:30 PM, an all-star cast will take to the stage for a one-night-only benefit performance of 'COME RAIN OR COME SHINE: Celebrating the Songs of Johnny Mercer.' The event will take place at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, in the West Village. All proceeds from the event will benefit GREENWICH HOUSE MUSIC School's music education programs and assist with vital facility upgrades.

The Robert and Carol Morris Center for 21st Century Music announces the launch of a new website, http://www.music21c.org. The site will highlight upcoming and recent activities of the Center, and make accessible materials from the Center's past two seasons. These will include items relating to the Center's internationally renowned June in Buffalo festival; its distinguished resident ensemble, the Slee Sinfonietta; and its lively and informative Wednesday Seminar Series.

The Auditorium Theatre of Roosevelt University (ATRU) and the Sara Lee Foundation proudly present the world-renowned Nederlands Dans Theater I (NDT), which brings ATRU's 2008 - 2009 International Dance Series to a thrilling conclusion with performances June 16 and 17. Tickets are now on sale.

On Monday, June 15, 2009 at 8PM, an all-star cast will take to the stage for a one-night-only benefit performance of COME RAIN OR COME SHINE: Celebrating the Songs of Johnny Mercer. The event will take place at the Cherry Lane Theatre, 38 Commerce Street, in the West Village. All proceeds from the event will benefit GREENWICH HOUSE MUSIC School's music education programs and assist with vital facility upgrades.

Two worlds collide as Blessed Unrest and the New York University Percussion Ensemble combine classical percussion and physical theatre. This explosive show is Blessed Unrest's second percussive theatre collaboration with NYU, following our sold-out run last year.

Spectrum Dance Theater, Seattle Theatre Group's resident dance company, since 2006, presents Icono-Clan, a Mainstage production at The Moore Theatre on April 25th at 8:00pm and April 26th at 5:00pm. This evening-length production will celebrate three outstanding powerhouses of the American dance scene: Merce Cunningham, arguably the country's greatest living choreographer; Gus Solomons Jr., a seminal figure in postmodern and experimental dance; and Donald Byrd, the most unconventional provocateur and dance maker/thinker of our times.

Problem Radical(s) is an experimental opera mixing everyday radical acts, a sprawling sculpture, massive inflating tarps, industrious performers, and hardcore noise. Each night, the performers navigate an ever-expanding, unstable installation. Musicians and singers reassemble the modular live electronic and instrumental score, evoking American radical thinkers, civic activists, and maneuverable personal blimps.

Danspace Project will present Yoshiko Chuma and The School of Hard Knocks/ROOT CULTURE in the debut of 'Not About Romanian Cinema: POONARC' from June 4 to 13, 2009 as part of its City/Dans series. This next installment in Chuma's ten year project, 'A Page Out of Order' (culminating in 2011), features artists of all disciplines from Japan, Romania and the USA. The word 'POONARC' in the title is an acronym for 'Page Out of Order Not About Romanian Cinema.'

The Hartt Percussion Ensemble presents a '57-Year Retrospective Musicircus of the Percussion Music of John Cage,' a seminal voice in American music and culture. The concert, free and open to the public, is about 85 minutes in length, and will take place on Saturday, April 18, at 7:30 PM in Millard Auditorium on the University of Hartford's West Hartford campus.

Child prodigy, U.N. Peace Ambassador, and educator-violinist Midori could equally be described as any of these. This superstar violinist began her career at age 11 with the New York Philharmonic and continues to astound audiences today with her virtuosic playing. Midori, with pianist Robert McDonald, will perform a recital on the Bach Festival Society's Visiting Artists Series Friday, April 17 at 8 p.m. in Tiedtke Concert Hall on the Rollins College Campus. Midori's program with the Bach Festival Society will feature a variety of works ranging from traditional to modern, including works by Schumann, Beethoven, Cage, and Enescu.