BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID;X-RICAL-TZSOURCE=TZINFO:-//com.denhaven2/NONSGML ri_cal gem//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Open your ears and your mind at theSummer Institute for Conte mporary Performance Practice \;(SICPP). It's a rare opportunity to i mmerse yourself in hearing where new music has been going\, and to under stand where it might be going next.\nLegendary artists are in residence for this week of intensive musical study and performance\, alongside sem inar participants who are here for the sheer thrill of the avant garde. NEC's \;Stephen Drury \;is artistic director for this institute\ , and guest artists this year include \;Louis Goldstein\, \;Jose ph Kubera\, and \;Steffen Schleiermacher.\nCage \;Concerto for P repared Piano and Chamber Orchestra\, Music for 17Wolff \;Hay una mu jer desaparecida \;and world premiere of \;Overtureperformed by Stephen Drury\, Yukiko Takagi\, and Callithumpian Consort\nAs a continua tion of NEC's celebration of \;John Cage\, SICPP focuses this year o n Cage's music as well as that of his colleague and friend \;Christi an Wolff\, who is SICPP composer-in-residence this year. Wolff was previ ously in residence at NEC in 2010.\nCage\nComposer John Cage (1912&ndash \;1992) paid attention to the 99% of sound that was not previously calle d "music." This even led him to explore what was previously thought of a s "silence." Because he challenged existing notions of music in such a f undamental way\, his ideas still provoke and inspire.\nCage called his&n bsp\;Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra \;(1950&ndash \;51) "a drama between the piano\, which remains romantic\, expressive\, and the orchestra\, which itself follows the principles of oriental phi losophy."\nThe much later \;Music for __ \;(1984&ndash\;87) crea tes the opportunity to fill in the blank in the title with the number of performers\, though 17 parts are provided&mdash\;and no overall score c onnecting them. The (up to) four percussionists are expected to construc t an array of 50 instruments apiece\, giving this work an orchestral sco pe regardless of how many or few players assemble.\nWolff\nChristian Wol ff is the last surviving member of the New York School of composers who revolutionized music in the 20th century. Along with Cage\, Morton Feldm an\, and Earle Brown\, Wolff has changed the way musicians across the sp ectrum think about composition and performance.\nHay una mujer desaparec ida \;is Wolff's set of piano variations on Holly Near's 1978 song d edicated to the Chilean women who were "disappeared" (i.e. murdered with out trace) during the Pinochet junta in the 1970s. It continues a thread of variation sets based on political songs initiated by Frederic Rzewsk i in 1975 with \;The People United Will Never Be Defeated. URL:http://backbay.patch.com/events/sicpp-cage-wolff-7bfa57c4 SUMMARY:SICPP: Cage\, Wolff LOCATION:30 Gainsborough St\, Boston\, MA 02115: 30 Gainsborough St\, Bos ton\, MA END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR