John Cage – Past Concerts
CMNW: Brentano String Quartet – A Tribute to Stravinsky
Saturday, December 4, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland, WA, United States
Brentano String Quartet presents an immersive program in celebration of Igor Stravinsky, interlacing the modernist composer's works with poetry & music from his contemporaries & historical influences.
$62.50 ($20 ages 30 & under)
CMNW: Brentano String Quartet – A Tribute to Stravinsky
Friday, December 3, 2021 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Lincoln Performance Hall, Portland, WA, United States
Brentano String Quartet presents an immersive program in celebration of Igor Stravinsky, interlacing the modernist composer's works with poetry & music from his contemporaries & historical influences.
$62.50 ($20 ages 30 & under)
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society: David Greilsammer, piano
Thursday, November 11, 2021 @ 4:00pm – 5:05pm (PST)
Online and in-person
Pianist David Greilsammer presents an unusual program in palindrome form, conceived as 1 long piece made of numerous short movements & fragments spanning the history of classical music.
Free (Online: Free | In person: $25)
Saratoga Orchestra: PNW Percussion on the Rock – Final Concert
Sunday, July 11, 2021 @ 3:00pm – 4:30pm (PDT)
Langley United Methodist Church, Langley, WA, United States
Culminating concert of Saratoga Orchestra's 4-day percussion workshop & festival, featuring the Orchestra's percussionists. Program to include works by John Cage, Alan Hovhaness, Johanna Beyer, Carlos Chávez, & more.
Free (Free (RSVP required))
Wayward Music Series: Inverted Space Ensemble – Reflected Duality
Friday, May 31, 2019 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An eclectic program performed on instruments ranging from toy piano to string quartets featuring music by Luke Fitzpatrick, Jeff Bowen, John Cage, György Kurtág, Robert Ashley, and La Monte Young.
$5-$15 donation
UW Modern Music Ensemble: Webern, Cage, & Neuwirth
Wednesday, December 5, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Brechemin Auditorium, Seattle, WA, United States
Anton Webern – Concerto for Nine Instruments, Op. 24
Krzysztof Penderecki – Clarinet Quartet
Morton Feldman – For Franz Kline
John Cage – Living Room Music
Olga Neuwirth – Marsyas II
Krzysztof Penderecki – Clarinet Quartet
Morton Feldman – For Franz Kline
John Cage – Living Room Music
Olga Neuwirth – Marsyas II
Free
Heath/Asplund Duo: An Evening of Modern/Postmodern Art Song
Thursday, May 31, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Music for soprano with piano and viola by Cage, Ligeti, Ives, Messiaen, Webern, Lutosawski, Christian Asplund, and Jarrad Powell.
$5-$15 donation
Earth Day Tribute with the Ecco Chamber Ensemble
Saturday, April 21, 2018 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PDT)
Resonance at SOMA Towers, Bellevue, WA, United States
Music by Apziazu, Cage, Cardew, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, DeLio, Fauré, Lilly, Lucier, Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Vaughan Williams, Wilson, and the premiere of H2O by Seattle composer Sarah Bassingthwaighte.
$20-$25
Inverted Space Ensemble: Cage, Ligeti, Stockhausen
Friday, January 26, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 9:30pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Cage – Freeman Etudes for solo violin (Book 1)
Ligeti – Études for solo piano (Book 1)
Stockhausen – Plus Minus
Ligeti – Études for solo piano (Book 1)
Stockhausen – Plus Minus
$5-$15 donation
Wayward Music Series: Helen Pridmore & friends
Thursday, January 18, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Exploring graphic scores by John Cage and Earle Brown — music to see and to hear, with visual interpretation of the score as a crucial part of the performance.
$5-$15 donation
Jesse Myers: To Sober & Quiet the Mind
Friday, January 12, 2018 @ 8:00pm – 9:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
An evening of spacious solo piano works from the masters of time and space – Arvo Pärt, Morton Feldman, and more
$5-$15 suggested donation
UW Percussion Ensemble: John Cage – 'The City Wears a Slouch Hat'
Friday, December 1, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PST)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A theatrical version of Cage's recently-discovered radio play The City Wears a Slouch Hat, pairing his vintage music with new music by UW composition students.
$10
UW Modern Ensemble: Player's Choice
Friday, May 26, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (PDT)
Meany Studio Theater at Meany Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
Louis Andriessen – Worker's Union
Luciano Berio – Air
John Cage – Music for Amplified Toy Pianos
Marcelo Delgado – Colores congelados
Kaija Saariaho – Mirrors
Karen Tanaka – Invisible Curve
Luciano Berio – Air
John Cage – Music for Amplified Toy Pianos
Marcelo Delgado – Colores congelados
Kaija Saariaho – Mirrors
Karen Tanaka – Invisible Curve
$10
UW Modern Ensemble with Stephen Drury, guest conductor
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 @ 7:30pm – 9:30pm (PST)
Katharyn Alvord Gerlich Theater at Meany Hall (formerly Meany Theater), Seattle, WA, United States
John Zorn – Cobra
Earle Brown – Tracking Pierrot
Morton Feldman – The Viola in My Life 1
Christian Wolff – Exercise #2, and selections from Micro Exercises
Earle Brown – Tracking Pierrot
Morton Feldman – The Viola in My Life 1
Christian Wolff – Exercise #2, and selections from Micro Exercises
$10
Cornish Presents: Jesse Myers
Friday, February 17, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 9:15pm (PST)
PONCHO Concert Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
John Cage’s monumental work for the prepared piano is performed on the stage on which the instrument was born.
$10-$20
Wayward Music Series: Inverted Space Ensemble
Friday, February 17, 2017 @ 8:00pm – 10:00pm (PST)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
Newly composed works alongside a diverse mix of contemporary and experimental music. Featuring works by Charles Corey, Jacob Sundstrom, Ania Stachurska, Clint McCallum, Sergej Newski, Beat Furrer, and John Cage.
$5-$15 suggested donation
NUMUS Northwest Music Festival
Saturday, January 28, 2017 @ 9:00am – 10:00pm (PST)
Cornish College of the Arts - Kerry Hall, Seattle, WA, United States
A day-long, artistically-stunning event dedicated to the creation, performance, and experience of new music in Seattle.
$20 day pass (students free)
Luke Fitzpatrick: Cage & Partch
Friday, December 2, 2016 @ 7:30pm – 7:30pm (PST)
Floyd and Delores Jones Playhouse Theater, Seattle, WA, United States
John Cage's Freeman Etudes for solo violin and the 17 Lyrics by Li Po for adapted viola and voice by Harry Partch.
$10-$20
John Cage Musicircus
Saturday, November 19, 2016 @ 6:30pm – 10:00pm (PST)
Town Hall Seattle, Seattle, WA, United States
Musical works and lectures written and influenced by John Cage. Dance inspired by Cage and Cunningham. Live art inspired by the I Ching and chance operations.
$5-$15 donation (youth free)
The Sound Ensemble: In Nature's Realm
Saturday, October 29, 2016 @ 7:00pm – 8:30pm (PDT)
The Chapel at the Good Shepherd Center, Seattle, WA, United States
John Teske – susurrus
Tom Cipullo – Rain
Greg Dixon – Cedar Forest
John Cage – Litany for the Whale
John Luther Adams – songbirdsongs
Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Hrim
Tom Cipullo – Rain
Greg Dixon – Cedar Forest
John Cage – Litany for the Whale
John Luther Adams – songbirdsongs
Anna Thorvaldsdottir – Hrim
$10-$15
- Newer events
- Older events