Schedule

Items in italics are not included in the registration fee.

2012

14

NOVEMBER

Day 1

  • 9:30 AMConference begins: coffee, registration
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall Foyer
  • 10 AM-12 PM Papers and presentations I
    Rymer Auditorium
    9:30:paper tbc
    9:50:paper tbc
    10:10:Edward Crooks (York University): A Winter’s Tale: Dating the Lecture on Nothing
  • 10:30-10:45 AMCoffee
  • 10 AM-12 PM Papers and presentations I (continued)
    Rymer Auditorium
    10:45: paper tbc
    11:05: paper tbc
    11:25: paper tbc
    11:45: David Gothard: title tbc
  • 12-1 PMLunch
  • 1-2 PMLunchtime concert I
    Works by Cage and responses by students
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
  • 2-3:30 PMPapers and presentations II
    Rymer Auditorium
    2:00: Magnus Andersson (Norwegian Academy of Music): Zen according to John: a parallel reading of Cage and Suzuki
    2:30: Jane Alden (Wesleyan University): Escaping the Gilded Cage: Song Books and the British Choral Tradition
    3:00: Jonathan Hiam (New York Public Library): The John Cage collection at the New York Public Library
  • 3:30-4 PMTea, with music
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
  • 4-5:30 PMKeynote I: Peter Dickinson
  • 6-7:30 PMDinner
  • 7:30-9 PMConcert: Cage and friends I
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall (ticketed event)
    Cage: Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra
    Nicky Losseff, with the University of York Chamber Orchestra; John Stringer, conductor
    Feldman: Rothko Chapel
    The 24 and Chimera; Jonathan Brigg, conductor
    Satie: Socrate
    The University of York Chamber Orchestra; John Stringer, conductor
  • 9-9:30 PMFestival reception
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall Foyer
  • 9:30-11:00 PMEverywhere Getting Nowhere I
    Simultaneous performances throughout the Music complex, with streamed contributions from elsewhere
    Winter Music
    Atlas Eclipticalis
    Solos for voice 45 and 48

2012

15

NOVEMBER

Day 2

  • All DayDip in the lake (Sound Installation)
    Vanbrugh Bowl
  • 10-12 AMPapers and presentations III
    Rymer Auditorium
    10:00: Sebastian Wedler (Merton College, Oxford University): Historico-Philosophical Notions in Adorno
    10:30: Steve Tromans (University of Middlesex): Cageian Interpenetration and the Nature-Artifice Distinction
    11:00: Kurt Ozment (Bilkent University): Cage's Roaratorio, Cunningham's Roaratorio
    11:30: Walter Kreyszig (University of Saskatchewan): The impact of Buhlig, Cowell, Weiss and Schoenberg on early compositional practice and traditions of John Cage
  • 12 AM-1 PMLunch
  • 1-2:30 PMLunchtime concert: Sonatas and Interludes
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
  • 2:30-4 PMPapers and presentations IV
    Rymer Auditorium
    2:30: Stacey Barelos (Missouri Southern State University): Cage: Water Music/Cowell: Piano Works
    3:00: Stuart Riddle: Cage: One7
    3:30: Xenia Pestova (University of Wales, Bangor): Cage: Suite for Toy Piano/Essl Kalimba
    4:00: tbc
  • 4-4:30 PMTea, with Music
  • 4-5:30 PMSilence
    Everywhere
  • 5:30-7:30 PMDinner
  • 7:30-9 PMConcert: Cage and friends II
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
    Brown: Available Forms I
    The Getting Nowhere Ensemble;
    James Whittle, conductor
    Wolff: Changing the System
    The Getting Nowhere Ensemble
    Cage: Concert for Piano and Orchestra/Aria/Fontana Mix
    Joseph Houston and The Getting Nowhere Ensemble
  • 8-11 PMDip in the lake (Sound Installation)
    3Sixty, The Hub, Heslington East
  • 9-9:30 PMCash bar
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall Foyer
  • 9:30-10 PMCage bus to the Ron Cooke complex
  • 10-12 PMEverywhere Getting Nowhere II
    Ron Cooke Complex
    Song Books and other works
  • 11:30 PMBus returns to main campus

2012

16

NOVEMBER

Day 3

  • 10-10:30 AMPapers and presentations V
    Rymer Auditorium
    9:00: paper tbc 9:30: paper tbc
    10:00: Steve Tromans (University of Middlesex): Performance (semi-improvised work)
  • 10:30-11 AMCoffee
  • 11:00 AM -
    12 PM    Keynote II: Gavin Bryars
    Rymer Auditorium
  • 12-1 PMMusic and Mushrooms
    Music complex
    A moveable feast, with music
  • 1-2:30 PMLunchtime concert III
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
    Works by Cage and responses by others
  • 2:30-3:30 PMElectroacoustic Works
    Rymer Auditorium Belet: Name Droppings
    Cage: Fontana Mix and Aria
    Linda Hirst
    Cage: Williams Mix
    Cage: Lecture on the Weather
    The Getting Nowhere Ensemble
  • 3:30-4:00 PMTea, with music
  • 4:00-5:30 PMFor the Birds: a panel discussion
  • 5:30-7:30 PMDinner
    Quark; registrants only
  • 7:30-9 PMConcert: Cage and friends III
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
    Harrison: Concerto for Piano with Gamelan Orchestra
    Nicky Losseff and Gamelan Sekar Petak
    Cage: Six Melodies
    Martin Suckling, Mark Hutchinson
    Harrison/Cage: Double Music
    The Getting Quartet
    Cowell: 26 Simultaneous Mosaics
    The Nowhere Quartet
    Cage: Fourteen
    • Joseph Houston and the Getting Nowhere Ensemble
  • 9-9:30 PMCash bar
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall Foyer
  • 10-11 PMFeldman: For Bunita Marcus
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall
    Catherine Laws, Piano
  • 11 PM-7:35 AMEmpty Words
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall Foyer

2012

17

NOVEMBER

Day 4

  • 8-9 AMContinental breakfast
    Sir Jack Lyons Concert Hall Foyer
  • 9-10 AMLecture on Nothing
    Sally Baldwin Courtyard
  • 10 AM-5 PMEverywhere Getting Nowhere III
    Art Gallery, busking, Guildhall, city walls, the River Ouse
    Performances throughout York
  • 5 PMConference ends