The 1989 Laureates / Creative Arts and Moral Sciences Category / Music

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John Cage

U.S.A. / September 5, 1912-1992
Composer

Workshop

Workshop: "John Cage in Kyoto"

Chairperson: Bin Ebisawa
Member, Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences;
President, Kunitachi College of Music, Musicology

10:30
Greetings
Kazuo Inamori
President, The Inamri Foundation
10:35 
Opening Remarks
Toru Yano
Chairman, Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences;
Professor, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University
10:45 
Lecture
John Cage
Laureate in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences
"Composition in Retrospect"
11:30 
Commemorative Performance
"Ryoan-ji" percussion: Yasunori Yamaguchi
hichiriki: Kanehiko Toji, Yumiko Mizoiri, Satoru Yaotani
12:00 
Intermission
 
13:15 
Lecture
Akimichi Takeda
Associate Professor, Musashino University of Music, Musicology
"John Cage, who uncaged music"
13:45 
Symposium
"The Significance of Cage – from various perspectives"
Chairperson:
Koji Sano, Professor, Tohogakuen School of Music, Musicology
Panelists:
Kuniharu Akiyama, Professor, Tama Art University, Music critic
Arata Isozaki Member, Kyoto Prize Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Professor, The University of the Air, Composer
Shin Nakagawa, Member, Kyoto Prize Screening Committee in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences; Assistant Professor, Kyoto City University of Arts, Musicology
Masashi Miura, Literary Critic
15:45 
Intermission
 
16:00 
Tributes
Toshiro Mayuzumi, Composer
Aki Takahashi, Pianist
16:20
Performance
1. Music for six fl.: Yukihiko Nishizaka
pno.: Aki Takahashi, Toshi Ichiyanagi
perc.: Atsushi Sugawara, Takafumi Fujimoto, Maki Suzuki
2. "Two" for fl. and pno. fl.: Yukihiko Nishizawa
Pno.: Aki Takahashi
17:00
Tributes
Toshi Ichiyanagi, Composer
17:15
Closing Remarks
 

Workshop Abstract(PDF)