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Music for Merce, 1952-2009

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Music for Merce, 1952-2009

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Recorded 1954-2009

Disc 1: For magnetic tape (pt. 1 of 4) (5:24) ; For piano I (5:19) / Christian Wolff -- Music for piano 1-20 / John Cage (16:13) -- Indices (excerpts) / Earle Brown (20:51) -- Quantitäten / Bo Nilsson (12:31) --Disc 2: Ixion / Morton Feldman (20:21) -- Variations V (excerpt) / John Cage (13:41) -- Mesa / Gordon Mumma (19:38) -- Activities for orchestra / Toshi Ichiyanagi (24:09) --Disc 3: --for nearly an hour-- (excerpt) / David Behrman (3:23) -- In memoriam : Nikola Tesla, cosmic engineer (excerpt) / Pauline Oliveros (9:44) -- For 1, 2, or 3 people (excerpt) (12:07) ; Burdocks (excerpt) / Christian Wolff (16:59) -- 52/3 (excerpt) / John Cage, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor (16:39) -- Telepos / Gordon Mumma (18:27) --Disc 4: Toneburst / David Tudor (17:45) -- S.E. Wave/E. W. Song (excerpt) / Takehisa Kosugi (13:03) -- Remainder (excerpt) / Maryanne Amacher (14:55) -- Equal distribution (excerpt) / Jon Gibson (12:14) -- Inlets (excerpt) / John Cage (10:17) --Disc 5: Weatherings (excerpt) / David Tudor (14:54) -- Geography and music (excerpt) / Yasunao Tone (21:18) -- Phonemes (excerpt) (14:00) ; Sextet for seven (18:15) / David Tudor --Disc 6: Spacings / Takehisa Kosugi (23:52) -- gliss in sighs / John King (16:19) -- Voiceless essay (excerpt) / John Cage (10:58) -- Webwork (excerpt) / David Tudor (10:46) -- Peace talks (excerpts) / Michael Pugliese (11:44) --Disc 7: Spectra / Takehisa Kosugi (20:29) -- Sculptures musicales (excerpt) / John Cage (12:14) -- Virtual focus (excerpt) / David Tudor (15:15) -- Four³ (excerpt) / John Cage (15:24) -- Neural network plus (excerpt) / David Tudor (13:28) --Disc 8: Blues '99 (excerpt) / John King (19:10) -- Underground overlays (excerpt) / Stuart Dempster (15:22) -- Four⁶ (excerpt) / John Cage (11:17) -- Wave code A-Z (excerpt) / Takehisa Kosugi (14:42) -- Or 4 people (excerpt) / Christian Wolff (6:16) --Disc 9: 108 and one⁸ (excerpt, performed together) / John Cage (14:18) -- longtermparking (excerpt) / John King (15:31) -- Long throw (excerpt) / David Behrman (18:25) -- Jitterbug (excerpt) / Annea Lockwood (20:19) --Disc 10: Events. February 16, 1993, Red Wing, Minnesota (5:58) ; September 14, 1996, Annemasse, France (5:53) ; June 5, 1997, Frankfurt (7:30) ; September 12, 1998, Minneapolis (5:22) ; September 29, 2002, Oslo (4:12) ; October 30, 2002, Munich (6:51) ; December 14, 2004, New York City (3:54) ; December 18, 2004, New York City (6:35) ; June 14, 2005, London (5:21) ; June 17, 2005, London (8:44) ; June 23, 2007, New Caanan, Connecticut (3:09) ; February 22, 2009, Beacon, New York (5:17)

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