The 25-Year Retrospective Concert Of The Music Of John Cage

VINYL FORMAT. Recorded live at Town Hall, NYC in May of 1958, this historic concert (organized by Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg) was a retrospective of Cage's work from 1934 to the present. Here Cage's interest in technology, Eastern philosophies, and the concept of silence and chance as related to composition come to the fore as he plays some of his most significant and controversial pieces of his career, several of which ("Six Short Inventions for Seven Instruments", "She Is Asleep", "Music for Carillon", and "Concerto for Piano and Orchestra" [in which Merce Cunningham took the part of the conductor - the "living clock" - and David Tudor that of the pianist]), were performed here for the first time ever. This concert created quite a stir for its time, with many journalists and audience members loudly complaining "this isn't music"! Includes booklet with comments by Cage himself.