Saturday, March 24: John Cage Festival Opening Event, “Circus of Happening: A Chance-Determined Series of Arranged Convergence (for John Cage),” with performances by numerous local and regional artists, at the CoRK Arts District, 2689 Rosselle St., Jacksonville, FL: 2:00 PM to midnight.

Monday, March 26: a screening of Henning Lohner’s documentary film documentary film, The Revenge of the Dead Indians: In Memoriam of John Cage, at MOCA-Jacksonville, 133 N. Laura St., Jacksonville, FL. 7:30 PM. Trailer: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGVwzzr99oI>

Tuesday, March 27: Sound Artist Jaap Blonk (Holland), at MOCA-Jacksonville, 133 N. Laura St., Jacksonville, FL. 7:30 PM. <http://www.jaapblonk.com/> In addition, a rare selection of Jaap Blonk’s original scores for voice will be exhibited at UNF’s Thomas G. Carpenter Library, from March 19 - April 30.

Blonk’s Program

        John Cage’s Aria, 4’33” & Solo for voice #64

        Kurt Schwitters’ Ursonate (first movement)

        Raoul Hausmann - Alptraum (Nightmare)

        Theo van Doesburg - Letterklankbeelden (Letter Sound Images)

        Sheldon Frank - As I Was Saying

        Dick Higgins - glasslass

        Some of Blonk’s own pieces:

        Hommage to Antonin Artaud

        Solo for Cheek Synthesizer

        Muzikaret (Music of Rubber)

        Underlands (a cycle of poems in an invented language similar to that of Dutch)

        Song for the Cubists (video)

        Flababble 1 (video)

       Traces of Speech (a series of drawings projected with their ‘translations’ into text and sound)

Wednesday, March 28: Violinist Tom Chiu (New York), founder of the esteemed FLUX Quartet, presents a program of rarely heard works for solo stringed instrument. His program includes selections from Freeman Etudes (1977-90), 26' 1.1499" for solo string instrument (1953-55), and Cheap Imitations (1969/1977), at the J. Johnson Gallery, 177 4th Avenue North, Jacksonville Beach, FL. 7:30 PM.  <http://www.fluxquartet.com/>

Chiu’s Program

   Selections and excerpts from the following rarely performed works for solo string instrument by Cage:                                                         

            26’1.1499” for a String Player (1953/1955)

            Solo for Violin 2, from the Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957-58)

            Cheap Imitations (1969/1977)

            Freeman Etudes (1977-80/1989-90)

Friday, March 30: Pianist Louis Goldstein (Wake Forest University) will perform Cage’s 4’33” (1952), ASLSP (1985) and Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48), at 11AM and 7:30 PM, at Friday Musicale, 645 Oak Street, Jacksonville, FL 11:00 a.m. & 7:30 p.m. <http://fridaymusicale.com/Site/Friday,_March_30,_2012.html>

Goldstein’s Programs

    11:00 a.m. Program

        Selections from ASLSP (1985)

        Selections from Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48)

    7:30 p.m. Evening Program

        4’ 33” (1952)

            I. 33”

            II. 2’ 40”

            III. 1’ 20”

        ASLSP (1985)

        Sonatas and Interludes (1946-48)

Questions or queries, please e-mail: clark.lunberry@unf.edu