John Cage: Fifty-Eight (1992)
John Cage (1912-1992): Fifty-Eight, for 58 wind players (1992).
Pannonisches Blasorchester diretta da Wim van Zutphen.
Every part consists of 5 double sheets with flexible time brackets. The parts contain between 64 and 71 individual notes each. Dynamics and accentuation are left upto the performers. Cage does not suggest long sounds to be soft « because he associated wind bands with an attitude of celebration and joyfulness » (Rob Haskins)
The work was commissioned by Solf Schaefer, head of music at Austrian Radio’s provincial studio in Graz. It was written especially to be performed in the « Landhaushof » in Graz with the performers to be positioned in the 58 arches of this courtyard.
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