JOHN CAGE’S MUSICIRCUS:
You won’t hear a thing; You’ll hear everything
FREE
Sunday, October 7th
Chicago Cultural Center, 78 E. Washington
http://www.musicircus.chicagocomposers.org
LECTURE, 11am Art Is Life:
An Introduction to John Cage & His Musicircus
Cultural Center’s Claudia Cassidy Theatre 2nd floor
MUSICIRCUS, 12-4pm
CHICAGO COMPOSERS FORUM presents “art as life” with hundreds of Chicago musicians, artists, and performers in a single four-hour collaborative performance. The underlying idea of Musicircus reflects Cage’s social philosophy of autonomy and responsibility in which each performer or “act” individually contributes to a greater whole. John Cage first brought the idea of the Musicircus to fruition in 1967 at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where its first performance included jazz bands, pianists, dancers, mimes, vocalists, films, slides, black lights, balloons, cider and popcorn. Musicircus merges diverse art forms into a single, largescale event that celebrates all of these forms at once.
OVER 125 MUSICIRCUS acts this year, including:
Lester Jenkins Jr, GreenSugar, Irina Feoktistova,
Jennifer Karmin, Free Improvisation Ensemble,
Aleksander Garibashvili, The Chicago Cobra Ensemble,
Saalik Ziyad, Asimina Chremos, Johnny Tokyo, Eric
Leonardson, The Unknowns, Tony Chen, Plasticene,
Michelle Tupko, A D Jameson, Sid Yiddish, Nana
Shinelfug, Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra, Marita
Bolles, Janet Schmid, Preston Klik’s Synphoric OM
Choir, Rodney Jones, Marvin Tate, Chicago Bass
Ensemble, Mahjabeen Karim, Erin Carlisle Norton, Bill
MacKay, Jessica Hudson, Blank Line Collective, Wannapa
P-Eubanks, Beatriz Albuquerque, Guillermo Gregorio,
End of the World Band, Lois Veenhoven Guderian, Chris
Powers, Kaiju Daiko, Northern Illinois University
Percussion Group, Thomas Tabora, Sonic Inertia
Performance Group, and many many many more.
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The Chicago Composers Forum is a non-profit
organization whose mission it is to serve audiences,
performers and composers in the creation and shared
experience of new music.
http://www.chicagocomposers.org
This 2007 production of John Cage’s Musicircus is part
of Chicago Artists Month, the twelfth annual
celebration of Chicago’s vibrant visual art community.
http://www.chicagoartistsmonth.org