It’s difficult to understand and perhaps there is no hope for us. for example, his June 1975 performance of John Cages Song Books, which featured homoerotic interjections. Why can’t we learn? Why do we continually, when something is possibly beautiful, why do we find every way in our hands to trample on it? Why, when something could open our eyes, why do we close our eyes and pay no attention? I suppose we have to do it over again. Julius EASTMAN, composer, Hollywood Bowl. and in many ways instrumentalized by the worship of those who know that he might have lived as comfortably as John Cage and Terry Riley, were he not as the. well, a history that includes Thoreau for instance. that the history of our civilization is the history, isn’t it, not of the wars, as they tell us it is. To consider the ‘Song Books’ as a work of art is nearly impossible, this pathbreaking composer once said regarding his. Of the many memorable moments in the lecture, the following poignant quote demonstrates how deeply the performance troubled Cage. Eastman first made his name as a creator of conceptual scores in the vein of John Cage, his incantatory baritone often serving as a connecting thread. 5, 2017 Among other gifts, John Cage was skilled at deflection. After performing with Buffalo Universitys 1970s avant-garde SEM Ensemble, with Morton Feldman, John Cage, and Pauline Oliveros, Eastman began concentrating. Illustration by Jeff stberg Classical Music January 22. The performance provoked a very strong reaction from Cage and the discussion at the lecture addresses some essential questions concerning “right and wrong” approaches to performing Cage’s music. Avant-Garde Pioneer The New Yorker Julius Eastman, who died homeless, at the age of forty-nine, wrote political post-minimalist music. He was a composer, baritone and pianist of blinding, brilliant talent who died in 1990 at age 49, homeless and forgotten, in Buffalo, N.Y. The lecture took place June 5 1975, the day after a performance of Cage’s work, Song Books, by Julius Eastman and members of the S.E.M. Julius Eastman was a lost Minimalist and a lost soul. It included nudity and homoerotic allusions interpolated by Eastman. Ensemble under the aegis of Morton Feldman. The Music Library is pleased to announce that the John Cage Trust has generously provided permission to provide online access to a very significant lecture given by John Cage at the first June in Buffalo. Although Eastman began to teach theory and composition courses over the course of his tenure, he left Buffalo in 1975 following a controversially ribald performance of John Cage 's aleatoric Songbooks by the S.E.M.
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