This second installation in Mode Records' Complete John Cage Edition includes three versions of Atlas Eclipticalis, for an ensemble of up to 86 players, and Winter Music, for 1 to 20 pianos. In two of the performances, conducted by the composer, the pieces are played simultaneously. In the third performance, they are played separately. Cage derived the score for Atlas Eclipticalis from celestial maps that showed the positions of the stars in relation to the sun. He described the piece as a "heavenly illustration of nirvana, ...
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This second installation in Mode Records' Complete John Cage Edition includes three versions of Atlas Eclipticalis, for an ensemble of up to 86 players, and Winter Music, for 1 to 20 pianos. In two of the performances, conducted by the composer, the pieces are played simultaneously. In the third performance, they are played separately. Cage derived the score for Atlas Eclipticalis from celestial maps that showed the positions of the stars in relation to the sun. He described the piece as a "heavenly illustration of nirvana," and said that a performance "should be like looking into the sky on a clear night and seeing the stars." He created the score for Winter Music by using the I Ching and incorporated the imperfections in the paper he wrote it on in the compositional process. The two combined performances, recorded in live concerts at the Cornish Institute in Seattle in 1983, use a chamber ensemble and three pianos, and each lasts 80 minutes. Both are spare in the extreme, with sometimes as much as a...
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