Cage Against the Machine with the MSUM Percussion Ensemble Sunday night! Join the MSUM Percussion Ensemble in a recreation of a 1960’s “happening” at the beautiful Plains Art Museum this Sunday night, April 3rd from 7:30-9:30pm! Hear the avant-garde music of John Cage and the minimalist music of Gavin Bryars performed by the University Orchestra along with radios, breaking glass, […]
The Plains Art Museum will host a one-of-a-kind avant-garde musical experience Sunday, April 3. “Cage Against The Machine” will feature music for breaking glass, radios, plucked pianos, looped recordings, tin cans, and automobile break drums all being performed simultaneously in multiple gallery spaces throughout the Museum from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. The immersive “musicircus” concept of the event will pay […]
Kenyon Williams, Music, presented a lecture for the Fargo-Moorhead Area Music Club January 17. His presentation, entitled “The Man We Love to Hate: John Cage,” discussed the development of the Western percussion ensemble with a particular focus upon the influences of John Cage and the West Coast School of composers from 1938-1945. The lecture was presented as a form of […]