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| | | alga marghen (italy) #alga nmn11 cd “rumori alla rotonda” compact disc - john cage “duo” (1958) 07’25”
- walter marchetti “gamapîrt” (1959) 04’22”
- morton feldman “piano piece 1” (1954) 02’41”
- juan hidalgo “ciu music quartet” (1959) 11’04”
- leopoldo la rosa “musica per pianoforte e 3 timpani” (1959) 04’58”
- john cage “music for piano” (1956) 06’14”
- juan hidalgo “offenes trio” (1959) 04’49”
- morton feldman “piano piece ii” (1954) 02’18”
- walter marchetti “doppio” (1959) 05’10”
- leopoldo la rosa “rímak” (1959) 12’16”
| | click the play button to hear an excerpt of "walter marchetti “doppio” (1959)" |
| | fantastic compact disc documenting an historic concert which took place at the rotonda del pellegrini, milan, on january 21st 1959 featuring john cage, juan hidalgo, and walter marchetti. |
| | alga marghen press release... |
| live recording at the rotonda del pellegrini, milan, january 21st, 1959.
performers:
john cage, piano (3, 6, 8)
juan hidalgo piano (4), celesta (10)
leopoldo la rosa piano (5, 10)
walter marchetti celesta (2)
pina lercari viola (1, 4, 10)
franco carabelli flute (1, 7, 10)
giordano cappello oboe (2, 10) english horn (7)
stelio licudi bass clarinet (9, 10)
evadro dall’oca bassoon (4, 7, 10)
giacomo polverino trombone (2, 9, 10)
stanislao massara trombone (4, 9, 10)
domenico torrebruno timpani drums (5, 10)
qintín gonzáles, jesús gonzáles cuatros, maracas, claves, guitarra (10)
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gabriele bonomo
cage, feldman, hidalgo, la rosa, marchetti: “rumori alla rotonda” milan, january 21, 1959.
among all of the events john cage porticipoted in during his long stay in europe, and more precisely in italy, that followed his controversial appearance at darmstadt ferienkurse on september 1958, the concert he held in milan on january 21, 1959, at the rotonda del pellegriniwith juan hidalgo, walter marchetti, and the peruvian composer leopoldo la rosa - perhops represents a less well-known episode, but not the least relevant one. the reasons of such an interest - reasons that justify the opportunity to present here, after forty years, the complete recording of the concert, and that restore the measure of the exceptionality of this rare document - cam be summarized, first of all, in the contrasting reactions catalyzed by this event, thus prefiguring the front of ill-matched attitudes in which the contradictory european reception of john cage's oeuvre began to crystallize.
featuring cage's intervention both as composer and performer of his awn work as well as of two piano pieces by morton feldman, the concert at pellegrini's rotonda moy be considered the first event of experimental music in europe in which the presentation of american and european composers - if one excepts the non-homogeneaus chorocter of david tudor recitals - consciously acted on an ogreeing and equal aesthetic horizon. it was exactly this peculiarity that tumed out to be differently meaningful for peaple who played 0n. active role in the concert on the one hand, and for those who recognized in it, from an extemal point of view, only the symptoms of a pemicious mixture as regards the kind of cultural phenomenology with which cage's experience was classified at the time of his first clamorous ochievements in europe. the concert, promoted by the 'club intemazionale universitario', was organized thanks to the initiative of juan hidalgo, walter marchetti, and leopoldo la rosa, to crown cage's impending deporture from milan, where he spent almost four months starting from november 1958 - accepting luciana berio's and bruno madema's invitation-to finish the tape of fontana mix at rai television 'studio di fonologia musicale'.
during this period cage was not lacking in other opportunities to perform his compositions, neither did he miss former occasions for presenting his music in italy with a certain continuity, perhaps mare frequently at that time than in other eurapean countries. after the first private performance, reserved to musicians and iriends, of fontana mix simultaneously played with aria written lor cathy berberian (milan, december 20, 195b), cage began a brief tour in italy with luciano berio and the same singer, with a concert programme repeated in rome (ridotta del t eatro elisea, january 5, 1959) and florence (circola leonarda do vinci, january 8, 1959), where they presented music for two pianos, winter music, and variations i, and the first public performance of aria with fontana mix. sytvana bussotti and heinz-klaus metzger, in conjunction with teresa rampazzi, afterwards organized a concert by cage at the circolo culturale 'ii pozzetto' in padua (february 7, 1959), where he performed variations i, music walk, excerpts from music for piano, besides an audition 01 the european premiere of the concert for piano and orchestra recorded in cologne, and metzger's opening lecture entitled the musical progress from schonberg to cage... |
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