{"id":1058,"date":"2012-11-22T07:13:29","date_gmt":"2012-11-22T07:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/?p=1058"},"modified":"2015-05-28T02:46:21","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T02:46:21","slug":"piano-john-cages-two%c2%b2-with-patti-deuter-tue-1-dec-cagedebussy-fete-concert-le-piano-studio-sf-repeated-various-times-between%c2%a03-10-pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/joelasqo.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/22\/piano-john-cages-two%c2%b2-with-patti-deuter-tue-1-dec-cagedebussy-fete-concert-le-piano-studio-sf-repeated-various-times-between%c2%a03-10-pm\/","title":{"rendered":"Piano: John Cage\u2019s Two\u00b2 w Patti Deuter (Sat 1 Dec, Cage\/Debussy F\u00eate-Concert, @ Le Piano Studio, SF, repeated various times between 3-10pm)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eliane Lust performs “Chronicle of a Piano Woman”, Paris<\/p>\n<\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n

NOTE: Due to unforeseen circumstances, this concert has been rescheduled to Sun 16 Dec, 4pm-11pm.<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n

Internationally renowned concert pianist\u00a0Eliane Lust<\/a> was raised in Belgium and has performed to critical acclaim on the world\u2019s most prestigious concert stages from Paris to New York.<\/p>\n

Those who have been fortunate enough to hear her can attest to her amazing ability to melt into the piano<\/em> and control it from the inside.<\/p>\n

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Eliane Lust's Le Piano Studio<\/p><\/div>\n

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Debussy, by Marcel Baschet, 1884<\/p><\/div>\n

Her Le Piano Studio<\/em><\/strong> is the elegant epicenter of her rehearsal and teaching activities, and the site of a glorious F\u00eate-Concert<\/em> on <\/span>Sat 1 Dec<\/span> Sun 16 Dec<\/em><\/strong><\/span>, mixing works by Cage<\/em><\/strong> and Debussy<\/em><\/strong> on the occasion of their respective 100th & 150th birthdays this year.<\/p>\n

I’m very excited to join a party of some of the most exciting pianists in the Bay Area, including many co-conspirators in the glorious revival of the\u00a0Satie\/Cage Vexations at Berkeley Arts Festival<\/em><\/strong><\/a> in September, to explore the works of these 2 pioneering explorers, who each thoroughly re-invented the piano for their era.<\/p>\n

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John Cage at the piano<\/p><\/div>\n

The event will start around 4pm<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/strong> and ending around 11pm<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, during which most of the works will be repeated several times in between bouts of food, laughter and good company.<\/p>\n

The Cage\/Debussy F\u00eate-Concert<\/em> is a private rather than public affair, but I can wrangle a few invitations<\/strong> to this unique event.<\/p>\n

If you’d like to come, <\/span>please contact me at<\/span> joe@joelasqo.com<\/a> as soon as possible<\/span><\/strong>,<\/span> and I’ll see what I can do to get you in and let you know more details.<\/p>\n

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Patti Deuter performs Cage's "Four Walls" @ Berkeley Arts Festival<\/p><\/div>\n

My partner in crime for the two-piano\/two-pianist piece Two\u00b2<\/em><\/strong> by Cage\u00a0will be the delightful and brilliant pianist\u00a0Patti Deuter<\/em><\/strong>, organizer and ringleader of the aforementioned Satie\/Cage Vexations<\/em><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Patti Deuter (L, at toy piano): "Violette Nozieres, Revenant"(from performance-Installation with toy piano and projection of surrealist book; Patti Deuter and Anna Wexler, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA, 2009) Photo: \u00a9Jane Wang<\/p><\/div>\n

Often found in Paris as well as California, and a student of Eliane Lust’s, Patti is an indefatigable macherin<\/em> of the new music and piano scenes of the Bay Area. From her studio-cottage nestled in the trees, where everything is keyed to one of four vibrant synesthetic colors<\/span> (forming, I would say, a visual rootless 13th chord in second inversion… Scriabin would approve), passionate strains of Rzewski, Cage, Wolff, and other masters of 20th and 21st century piano escape to infuse the living air.<\/p>\n

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John Cage and D.T. Suzuki (\u9234\u6728 \u5927\u62d9 \u8c9e\u592a\u90ce)<\/p><\/div>\n

As is well known, John Cage was heavily influenced by Zen Buddhism and Japanese culture in general, and the piece we’ll perform, Two\u00b2<\/em><\/strong>, is his remarkable musical re-imagining of the fascinating traditional Japanese linked-verse form, <\/em><\/strong>renga (<\/strong>\u9023\u6b4c<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

With beginnings in the time of the\u00a0Man’y\u014dsh\u016b\u00a0(\u4e07\u8449\u96c6)<\/em>, <\/strong>c. 760 A.D., renga <\/strong><\/em>evolved into a very sophisticated game played by connoisseurs who used its 5-line stanzas consisting of a 5-7-5 syllable haiku (\u4ff3\u53e5)<\/em><\/strong> + a 7-7 syllable response in an interplay of group-improvised linked-verse, exchanged among the members of a (usually sak\u00e9-soaked) poetry party (not unlike the similar game of\u00a0cadavre exquis<\/a><\/em><\/strong> played in graphical form by the Paris surrealists).<\/p>\n

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Renga paper of poet Nishiyama S\u014din (\u897f\u5c71\u5b97\u56e0\u9023\u6b4c\u61d0\u7d19)<\/p><\/div>\n

Japanese poetry fiends took renga <\/strong><\/em>to remarkable heights of sophistication, defining an elaborate aesthetic of seasonal symbolism, pivot-stanzas referring to moon and cherry blossoms, and special gold-and-silver dusted papers of different shapes, sizes and colors, corresponding to distinct parts of the symbolic program, to brush their poems onto whilst sipping from cups of sak\u00e9 brought to them sushi-boat-style by special garden streams constructed for this purpose.<\/p>\n

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John Cage performs "Water Walk" on "I've Got A Secret"<\/p><\/div>\n

Cage’s luminous and serene\u00a0Two\u00b2<\/em><\/strong> for 2 pianists uses the 36-stanza kasen (<\/strong>\u6b4c\u4ed9<\/strong>)<\/strong><\/em> form of renga,<\/strong><\/em> re-imagining each of the 5-line stanzas as 5-measure musical units, each filled with 5 or 7 piano sound-events which replace the syllables of the original poetic form.<\/p>\n

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Say hello to my little friend...<\/p><\/div>\n

Like many of the other Cage “number pieces”, the timing of the musical events in Two\u00b2<\/em><\/strong> is not strictly determined, but unlike the “time bracket” approach to indeterminacy found in many of the number pieces,\u00a0\u00a0here instead Cage sets up a marvelous game of simple rules to let the two pianists create an interlinked joint control of fluid time, a game in which they can support or subvert each other, creating meditative kaleidoscopic ripples of piano sound which will be uniquely different in each performance.<\/p>\n

Similar to Western classical music forms having 3 movements, renga<\/em><\/strong>-sequences employ 3 sections, called\u00a0J\u014d-ha-ky\u016b<\/strong> (\u5e8f<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>\u7834<\/strong> \u2022 <\/strong>\u6025<\/strong>)<\/em>. While Patti and I will do the full hour+ version of Two\u00b2<\/em><\/strong> in a concert setting later in 2013, for this event, we’ll do the final\u00a0ky\u016b <\/strong><\/em>“movement” (stanzas 31-36), constituting the climax of the piece, and including one of the two “flower stanzas” of the kasen<\/strong> <\/em>form.<\/p>\n

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Modern Renga Banquet at the Shusuitei in the Kyoto Imperial Park (\u9023\u6b4c\u306e\u4f1a\u5e2d\u301c\u4eac\u90fd\u5fa1\u82d1\u5185\u306e\u62fe\u7fe0\u4ead\u306b\u3066\uff09<\/p><\/div>\n

And we will honor<\/em><\/strong> the tradition of alcohol-assisted creativity, as we’ll be marking the end of each stanza with ceremonial libations (which may lead to some interesting musical results as we repeat performances during the event…).<\/p>\n

Many of the most exciting pianists in the Bay Area will be joining us with other wonderful Debussy and\u00a0Cage pieces. A full list is not in hand, but here are some<\/em><\/strong> of the pianists who will attend:<\/p>\n

Eliane Lust<\/a> – Debussy (perhaps L’isle joyeuse<\/em><\/strong>\u2026)<\/p>\n

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Luciano Chessa performing Joan La Barbara's "Hear What I Feel" @ Pamela Z's VOICECAGE, 21 Aug 2012<\/p><\/div>\n

Luciano Chessa<\/a> – Cage: \"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Patti Deuter<\/strong> (solo) – Cage: One<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Jim Jowdy<\/p><\/div>\n

Jim Jowdy<\/strong> – Debussy: Suite bergamasque<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Joe Lasqo @ Meridian Gallery, 11 Jan 2012 (Photo: PeterBKaars.com, http:\/\/www.peterbkaars.com)<\/p><\/div>\n

Joe Lasqo<\/a> & Patti Deuter<\/strong> – Cage: Two\u00b2<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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David Manley at the piano<\/p><\/div>\n

David Manley<\/a> – Debussy: Pr\u00e9ludes<\/em><\/strong>, Livre 1<\/p>\n

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Roger Rohrbach plays Satie's Vexations at Berkeley Arts Festival, 2012.09.09<\/p><\/div>\n

Roger Rohrbach<\/a> – Cage: Dream<\/em><\/strong> & Debussy: Reverie<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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ChrIstina Stanley<\/p><\/div>\n

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Daniel Steffey<\/p><\/div>\n

Christina Stanley<\/a> – Cage:\u00a0Chorals for Violin Solo<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Christina Stanley<\/a> and\u00a0Daniel Steffey<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Cage:\u00a0Aria\/Fontana Mix<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Anton Vishio<\/p><\/div>\n

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Anton Vishio<\/a> \u2014\u00a0Cage:\u00a0Two Pieces for Piano (1946)<\/strong> + perhaps Debussy: Nocturne<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Kelly Walker at the piano<\/p><\/div>\n

Kelly Walker<\/strong> – Cage: In A Landscape<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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The highlight of the F\u00eate-Concert<\/em> will no doubt be the brilliantly intimate sound of Eliane Lust.<\/p>\n

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Eliane Lust at Old First Church, San Francisco (Photo credit: Panithi Damrongkul)<\/p><\/div>\n

Eliane\u2019s innovative programming and adventurous musicianship have garnered her award recognition from the California Art Council and invitations as the featured piano soloist in several multi-media productions. Her uncommon piano repertoire ranges from classical masterpieces to brand new works being written for her by today\u2019s leading contemporary composers. As concert curator Eliane has also created groundbreaking musical events such as the \u201cO Solo Milhaud<\/em><\/strong>\u201d 100th Anniversary Piano Marathon, to the Musicalliance Concert Series<\/em><\/strong>, to Mozart Madness<\/em><\/strong>, simultaneously presenting her dynamic master classes, lecture-recitals and clinics throughout the United States, Europe and French Polynesia.<\/p>\n

Eliane has participated in the Aspen, Banff, Ernen, Montalvo, Spoleto and Tanglewood Music Festivals and performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, the Paderewski Festival, Chateau LaGesse, the Dame Myra Hesse Series, Musiconcerts, the Legion of Honor, Les Journ\u00e9es de P\u00e9rigueux, and others. She\u2019s appeared as soloist with the NJ Philharmonic, the Schubert Society of New York, Boston\u2019s Orchestra & Chorale Society, the Diablo Symphony & the New England Contemporary Ensemble, among others. Her chamber music collaborations include performances with such luminaries as Anner Bylsma<\/a>, Walter Trampler<\/a>, Ron Leonard<\/a>, Aur\u00e8le Nicolet<\/a> and Frederic Rzewski<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Eliane\u2019s musical roots lead directly to the historic pedagogies of both Beethoven and Liszt through her close studies with legendary pianists Gy\u00f6rgy Seb\u00f6k <\/a> and Leonard Shure<\/a>. Other important influences include American pianists Richard Goode<\/a>, Claude Frank<\/a>, Aube Tzerko<\/a>, Leon Fleisher<\/a>, Joseph Kalichstein<\/a>, Menahem Pressler<\/a> and chamber coaches Yo-Yo Ma (\u99ac\u53cb\u53cb)<\/a>, Gilbert Kalish<\/a>, Eugene Lehner (L\u00e9ner Jen\u0151)<\/a> and Louis Krasner (\u041b\u0443\u0438\u0441 \u041a\u0440\u0430\u0441\u043d\u0435\u0440)<\/a>. A notoriously inspiring coach, Eliane maintains an active master class studio for highly dedicated musicians and performers in San Francisco, California. More information at elianelust.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Join us for a unique gathering of musical friends at this F\u00eate-Concert<\/em> by contacting me at<\/span><\/strong> joe@joelasqo.com<\/a> as soon as possible<\/span><\/strong> for one of a limited number of invitations.<\/p>\n

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Joe<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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