Upcoming events + performances
ReVIEWING: International Conference on Black Mountain College
November 12 – 14, 2021 | UNC Asheville Reuter Center – ReVIEWING 12, the annual international conference on Black Mountain College, will have a thematic focus on the remarkable and far-reaching impact of John Cage’s ideas and practices. Cage was a radical thinker, composer, musician, collaborator, visual artist, writer, and Buddhist. His legacy in music, performance, and visual art is incalculable. Through Revisiting John Cage, BMCM+AC encourages expansive conversation on, and responses to, the composer’s works and influences through a broad and global perspective.
PERFORMANCE: Waves and Particles – John Luther Adams, performed by JACK Quartet
Friday, November 12th, 2021 at 8 PM | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} + Streaming – Presented in conjunction with the 12th annual ReVIEWING conference and the exhibition “Don’t Blame it on ZEN: The Way of John Cage & Friends,” join us for the world premiere of a new composition by John Luther Adams, “Waves and Particles,” performed by the JACK Quartet.
PERFORMANCES: WORKS OF JOHN CAGE – ReVIEWING 12
Saturday, November 13th at 8PM EST | BMCM+AC {120 College Street} – Presented in conjunction with the 12th annual ReVIEWING conference. Two performances present the wide-ranging works of John Cage: Carl Patrick Bolleia, John Cage Piano/Toy Piano Retrospective: Black Mountain Keyboard | Thomas Moore, solo piano works by John Cage, with a focus on compositions written around 1952 and 1953
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Spring 2021 Exhibitions: I AM A CITIZEN OF THE WORLD | Jonathan Williams and the Jargon Society
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