Event overview
Morton Feldman and the dinner party that changed Music
John Cage was fond of wild rice. So much so that during the course of 1950 he invited friends Morton Feldman and David Tudor to a wild rice dinner party in his apartment. Wild rice is a tough seed that takes a long time to cook, and it was while waiting that Feldman made a discovery that, by Cage’s reckoning, ‘opened up everything’. It was, he said, ‘then that the musical world changed’. To mark the publication of his book The Graph Music of Morton Feldman, former Goldsmiths PGR student David Cline explains why Cage was so excited, what happened next and how these events culminated, eight years later, in the ‘Cage shock’ that rocked Darmstadt, triggering worldwide enthusiasm for graphic notations and indeterminacy.
David Cline completed his PhD in Music at Goldsmiths in 2011. His research has appeared in Perspectives of New Music and Twentieth-Century Music.
The Music Research Series is designed to help postgraduate students advance their research and careers. The events stimulate exchange, hones skills, facilitates the creation of professional networks and helps to consolidate the department’s postgraduate community, all over a glass of wine! Attendance is strongly recommended for all postgraduate students (MA, MMus and PGR) in Music but of course undergraduates, music researchers, and visitors from across the college and the community are also most welcome to these public lectures.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 18 Oct 2016 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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