FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Norm Magnusson
mossmag@aol.com 845-679-6662
RESCHEDULED FOR SATURDAY, SEPT. 10 AT 2:30PM
Woodstock, NY, September 5, 2011 - Mimi Goese and Ben Neill will perform John Cage’s famous composition 4’33” at the Woodstock Artists Association Museum (WAAM) at 2:30pm on Saturday, Sept. 10, 2011. WAAM is located at 28 Tinker St. in Woodstock and can be reached at (845) 679-2940.
The piece was composed in 1952 for “any instrument (or combination of instruments),
and the score instructs the performer not to play the instrument during the entire
duration of the piece.” It was first performed in Woodstock on August 29, 1952, presented by The Woodstock Artists Association at the Maverick Concert Hall. This will be the
59th anniversary of that performance.
It is an enormously influential piece in the world of art and is considered by many to be the perfect minimalist creation.
Norm Magnusson, who is producing this concert, saw it performed years ago by composer, percussionist, and avant-guardian David Van Tieghem and recounts that he was “surprised at how deeply moved he was by the purity of the work.” He adds: “4’33”, on one level, seems to be as close to artistic perfection as an artist can get.” After hearing it performed, Magnusson researched the piece, discovered that it had debuted in Woodstock, and decided to put on an anniversary concert. This is it.
Mimi Goese is known as the lead singer/co-songwriter of Hugo Largo, the critically acclaimed minimalist punk/pop group who released two albums on Brian Eno’s Opal label. After touring with musician/producer Hector Zazou and co-writing/singing on the Moby album Everything is Wrong, Goese’s solo album Soak was released by Luaka Bop, David Byrne’s label.
Her collaboration with Ben Neill, Songs for Persephone, will be released on August 30, by Ramseur Records.
Ben Neill is a composer, performer, producer, and inventor of the mutantrumpet, a hybrid electro-acoustic instrument. He has recorded eight CDs of his music on labels including Universal/Verve, Thirsty Ear, Astralwerks and Six Degrees. His most recent CD Night Science was released in 2009 on Thirsty Ear.
There will be a Q&A after the performance with musicologist Kyle Gann, author of No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33" and Mimi and Ben will play one of their own pieces.
The Woodstock Artists Association & Museum was founded in 1919 to exhibit and collect work in all media by area artists and to support the tradition of Woodstock as the “Colony of the Arts.” It is a super awesome place that has attained even higher levels of awesomeness by agreeing to host this concert.
Questions? Answers? Call Norm Magnusson or Carl Van Brunt at WAAM.
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