WE ARE ALL GOING IN DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS: A JOHN CAGE CELEBRATION

Presented in conjunction with Texas Performing Arts

With special guests 
Cenk Ergün, composer
Beth Meyers, viola

We are grateful to The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their support of classical music programming at Texas Performing Arts.

Presented in partnership with Fusebox Festival

Coined New York City’s “experimental powerhouse” by The Village Voice, Sō Percussion is America’s premiere modern performance ensemble. After a sold-out performance at McCullough Theatre in 2010, they return to Texas Performing Arts—along with guest composer Cenk Ergün and violist Beth Meyers—to present the Austin premiere of a new two-concert program commemorating the life and work of composer John Cage in his 100th birthday year.

Sō Percussion is hailed for navigating through the many extremes of emotion and musical possibility. Called “astonishing and entrancing” by Billboard Magazine and “brilliant” by The New York Times, Sō’s innovative work is paired with original music by some of today’s most exciting composers.

2 concert program

Special Guests
Cenk Ergun, electronics
Beth Meyers, viola

Program #1 Early Cage
Works to include

DAN DEACON New PIece
SO PERCUSSION 24×24 with Cenk Ergun and Beth Meyers
CENK ERGUN Use version 1 with Cenk Ergun and Beth Meyers
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JOHN CAGE
Imaginary Landscape #1 (1939)
1st Construction (1939) *with members of the UT Percussion Group
Credo in US (1942)
3rd Construction (1941)

Program #2 Later Cage
Works to include

SO PERCUSSION/MATMOS Needles
CENK ERGUN Use version 2 with Cenk Ergun and Beth Meyers
JASON TREUTING an imaginary city with Cenk Ergun and Beth Meyers
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JOHN CAGE
Child of Tree (1975)
But what About the Noise Of Crumpling Paper (1985) *with members of the UT Percussion Group
Cartridge Music (1960)
Inlets (1977)

“The range of colors and voices that Sō Percussion coaxes from its menagerie is astonishing and entrancing.”
BILLBOARD MAGAZINE

“Anyone who feels that percussion music must by definition be merely ‘noise’ would have heard that idea discredited at this concert.”
THE CLEVELAND PLAIN DEALER

RESOURCES
Sō Percussion website