Looks like it was this, Christopher:
/>>Quartets I-VIII, /a series of works for 24, 41 or 93 players, written
in 1976 by Cage was premiered by Dennis Russell Davies in 1977 at the
Cabrillo Festival in California. The work is arrived at by means of I
Ching chance operations (deletions of notes) and applied to scores of
religious hymns composed by the Revolutionary-era American composer
William Billings. The 41 instrument version scored for double winds,
trumpets and horns includes movements II (The Lord Descended), III (Old
North), V (New York), VI (Heath) and VIII (The Lord is Ris'n).<< Sounds
like the latter version is the one I heard.
mj
Christopher Walker wrote:
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>(*Time Cycle* is very cool) [MW]
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>Yes. One I also enjoy.
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>As to Tone, I remembered (l'esprit du send button) that his was the music
>played alongside Cunningham's *Roadrunner* in, I think, the late 70s. What I
>can't remember (not a good sign) is what it was actually like.
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>I saw the premiere of Europeras, which would have put Ken in an apoplexy
>[MW]
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>Yes. Indeed. What's the Cage quote I want? 'You've been sending us your
>operas and now I'm sending them back.' Something along those lines.
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>The piece you describe (I don't think I know it) does sound promising. I
>shall try to bestir myself.
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>Apocope and aposiopesis both feel right to me. Also the illusion of erasure.
>(Cage is paradoxical on this issue: on the one hand his rejection of
>Schoenberg's end of the pencil; on the other how 4'33" arose out of
>Rauschenberg's erased white paintings.)
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>CW
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>I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it
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