Fluxus: Fluxconcert
Sat / Nov 17, 2018 - 5:00PM
Brace yourself for the wildest concert of the season!
Program
- Walt Disney Concert Hall Interior and Exterior Spaces - 4PM until 8PM
- Christopher ROUNTREE Commitment Booth (LA Phil commission)
- Ken FRIEDMAN Sonata for Melons and Gravity
- Chris KALLMYER Sonatas and Interludes (LA Phil commission)
- Walt Disney Concert Hall Auditorium - 5PM
- La Monte YOUNG and Marian ZAZEELA The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962) in Dream Light
- Yoko ONO Draw Circle Event, Drinking Piece for Orchestra, and Laundry Piece
- Walt Disney Concert Hall Interior and Exterior Spaces - 7PM
- MACIUNAS Solo for Conductor
- Alison KNOWLES Wounded Furniture, Shoes of Your Choice, and Nivea Cream Piece
- Simone FORTI Think about climate change
- PATTERSON Scores from Methods and Processes
- Ken FRIEDMAN Telephone Clock, Finale, and Explaining Fluxus
- Christian WOLFF Collective Score, Sticks
- OLIVEROS Rock Piece
- R.B. SCHLATHER Karaoke
- Walt Disney Concert Hall Auditorium - 8PM
- PATTERSON Overture III
- La Monte YOUNG Composition 1960 #13 to Richard Huelsenbeck
- PAIK One, for solo violin
- Yoko ONO Wall Piece for Orchestra to Yoko Ono
- Steven TAKASUGI Howl (world premiere, LA Phil commission with generous support from the Esa-Pekka Salonen Commissions Fund)
- HIGGINS The Thousand Symphonies
- CAGE Apartment House 1776
- BERIO Sinfonia
Artists
- Christopher Rountree, curator, conductor
- R. B. Schlather, co-curator, director
- Elise McMahon, installation designer, performer
- Adam Larsen, projection designer
- Roomful of Teeth
- Los Angeles Philharmonic
- Arley Marks, mixologist
- Richard Kennedy
- Additional artists to be announced
- CAGE Apartment House 1776 guest vocalists:
- Mia Doi Todd
- Rodrigo Amarante
- Dwight Trible
- Odeya Nini
- Andrew W.K.
- Joe Rainey Sr.
- Georgia Anne Muldrow
- La Monte YOUNG and Marian ZAZEELA : The Melodic Version (1984) of The Second Dream of the High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China (1962) in Dream Light:
- Jung Hee Choi, director
- La Monte Young, composer
- Marian Zazeela, lighting design
- Charles Curtis, cello
- Judith Hamann, cello
- Ben Neill, trumpet
- Stephen Burns, trumpet
- C.J. Camerieri, trumpet
- Erick Jovel, trumpet
- Jonah Levy, trumpet
- Stephanie Richards, trumpet
- Nicolás Bejarano, trumpet
- Jennifer Bewerse, cello
- Rob Frear, trumpet
- Ben Hong, cello
About this Performance
Conducted by festival curator Christopher Rountree and directed by R. B. Schlather, this evening-long exploration of the Fluxus movement, staged throughout Walt Disney Concert Hall by the LA Phil, is one of the most ambitious undertakings of the orchestra’s 100-year career, and one of the largest Fluxus events ever to be put on by a major symphony orchestra. Designed to dissolve the perceived boundaries between audience, musician, and work, the entire campus will be activated, with sound, light, and action emanating from throughout the building. It will be an evening of chance encounters, unexpected delights, and historic performances.
Performances include:
- A rare performance of a two-hour section of La Monte Young’s The Second Dream of The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer from The Four Dreams of China in the concert hall, directed by the composer, with lighting by Marian Zazeela
- Guest artists and audience-members performing a selection of Fluxus scores by Alison Knowles, Yoko Ono, Ken Friedman, Benjamin Patterson, Christian Wolff, Christopher Rountree, R.B. Schlather, and Pauline Oliveros
- An evening performance by the LA Phil and Roomful of Teeth in the concert hall featuring works by Yoko Ono, John Cage, Benjamin Patterson, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young, Dick Higgins, Luciano Berio, and the world premiere of Howl by Steven Kazuo-Takasugi
This is a not-to-be missed event in the history of the LA Phil, one designed to dissolve the perceived boundaries between audience, musician, and work. The entire campus will be activated, with sound, light and activity emanating from throughout the building. It will be an evening of chance encounters, unexpected delights, and historic performances.
Visit fluxuslaphil.tumblr.com, where essays by prominent artists and scholars on aspects of the Fluxus movement and documentation of festival events will be posted throughout the LA Phil's 2018/19 season.
In partnership with the Getty Research Institute
Photo credit: From the Betty Freeman Papers, Los Angeles Philharmonic Archives
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