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JOHN CAGE and YVES KLEIN:
ARIA and RECITATIVE

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Yves Klein - 'Column of Fire' (1961)
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Yves Klein conducting

Free concert; no tickets necessary.

PROGRAM:

​Yves KLEIN - SYMPHONIE MONOTON - SILENCE (1947-1961) 
John CAGE - SPEECH (1955)

Julian Sands, newsreader

Isabelle Albuquerque, Jonathan Hepfer, Miranda Kilbey, 
Mahfuz Sultan and Hamza Walker, radios

ECHOI Ensemble, performers

Hamza Walker and Jonathan Hepfer, co-directors

Address of LAXART:
7000 Santa Monica Blvd.
Hollywood, CA 90038

"There are at base only two things: recitative and aria. Or said differently: telling a story (narrative) and stopping time.
Or put yet another way: the consecutive, the one-after-the-other, and the simultaneous, the all-at-once."
 - Peter Ablinger 


"Even in its presence, this symphony does not exist." -  Yves Klein

"Well, you know how I adjusted to that problem of the radio in the environment - very much as the primitive people adjusted to the animals which frightened them, and which probably as you say, were intrusions, they drew pictures of them on their caves. And so I simply made a piece using radios. Now, whenever I hear radios, even a single one, not just twelve at a time...I think, well, they're just playing my piece!" - John Cage

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  • ARCHIPELAGO BLOG
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    • POSTPONEMENTS
    • *[2019/20 SEASON]* >
      • 7/29/19 - MUSIC AS EXISTENTIAL EXPERIENCE
      • 9/28/19: STEVE REICH: 'DRUMMING'
      • 11/11/19 - MORTON FELDMAN: 'FOR PHILIP GUSTON'
      • 11/25/19 - XENAKIS / PARMEGIANI: ASTRONOMIE SONORE
      • 1/13/20 - NEW VOICES V: (HARMONY)
      • 2/9/20 - CAGE / KLEIN: ARIA & RECITATIVE
      • 4/6/20 - PÄRT / RADIGUE: TABULA RASA (POSTPONED)
      • 4/7/20-4/9/20 - ÉLIANE RADIGUE: INTO THE VOID (POSTPONED)
      • 4/13/20 - DAVÓNE TINES: 'RECITAL No. 1' (POSTPONED)
      • 5/18/20 - ANNE CARSON, SAMUEL BECKETT, PHILIP GLASS (POSTPONED)
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  • ABOUT
    • ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
    • ECHOI
    • TEAM >
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      • GRANTS MANAGER
      • PHOTOGRAPHER IN RESIDENCE
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
  • HISTORY
    • A BRIEF HISTORY OF MEC
    • PROGRAM ARCHIVE >
      • 2018 / 19 SEASON
      • 2017/18 SEASON
      • 2016/17 SEASON
      • 2015/16 SEASON
      • 2006-2015 SEASONS
      • 1952-1974 SEASONS
    • TESTIMONIALS
    • EVENINGS ON & OFF THE ROOF
  • MEDIA
    • VIDEOS
    • PHOTO GALLERY >
      • MUSICIAN PORTRAITS
      • REHEARSAL / PERFORMANCE
    • INTERVIEWS
    • PRESS
    • INSTAGRAM
  • CONTRIBUTE
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