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MusiCircus I: 6 pm
Concert I: 6:15 pm
Jean Lesage, Quatuor à cordes II (premiere)
Performers: Quatuor Bozzini
John Cage, Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano
Soloist: Brigitte Poulin, piano
MusiCircus II: 7:15 pm
Concert II: 7:55 pm
John Cage, Concert for piano and orchestra (piano solo version), Fontana Mix and Indeterminacy
Performers: Marc Couroux, piano; Yves Daoust, tape; Christopher Butterfield, text reading
Alain Beauchesne, L'heure de s'enivrer (premiere)
Performers: ECM+ conducted by Véronique Lacroix
Note: the Concert II pieces will be performed simultaneously
MusiCircus III: 8:30 pm
Concert III : 9 pm
André Villeneuve, Harmonia-Geometria-Nostalgia (premiere)
Performers: ECM+ conducted by Véronique Lacroix
John Cage, Fourteen for bowed piano
Soloist: André Ristic, bowed piano
Note: the Concert III pieces will be played without interruption
The Ensemble contemporain de Montréal honour American composer and creator John Cage with a happening, a fragmented concert/spectacle recreating the famous MusiCircuses beloved by the composer.
Lasting about 4 hours, the event will run on two parallel tracks with three concert segments alternating with three musiCircuses. Three of Cage’s works will be paired with three creations by Quebec composers Jean Lesage, Alain Beauchesne and André Villeneuve, with some pieces performed in superimposition (Concert II). Guest artists will include the soloists, pianists Brigitte Poulin, Marc Couroux and André Ristic, the Quatuor Bozzini, and a dozen multidisciplinary artists with dazzling performance pieces and installations.
