Artist(s): Various artists
Date: April 11, 1989-April 16, 1989
(FIRST PAGE INTERIOR) NEUE MUSIK Presented by Goethe House New York, Composers Forum, The Kitchen, + The Knitting Factory
Concerning the Program:
Iced tea at John Cage's place, evening discussions with Pauline Oliveiros-New York in the summer heatwave of 1985. Months later in Cologne, discussions with Peter Seel from Goethe House New York. An idea was born: COLOGNE— NEW YORK. Some time has passed. The idea now gave rise to a program that actually began many years ago in Cologne, the Mecca of new music during the 1950s and 1960s. Cologne (and Darmstadt, 124 miles away, with its international summer course on new music) at that time became the focal point of musicians and, later, even for visual artists from all over the world. This city's almost 200-year-old "guest worker" tradition offered fertile ground for an international discussion about the so-called Cologne School (and its successors). Its spokesman, Karlheinz Stockhausen, provided a challenge for contemporary composers. Mainly at the initiative of the West German Radio, which was committed to new music, composers came to Cologne and were able to present their latest works. Also present in Cologne were representatives of the European avant-garde such as Pierre Boulez, György Ligeti, and Luigi Nono, as well as the most important Americans of new music–John Cage, Morton Feldman, Steve Reich, and others. Many composers came to Cologne, some remained there, most of the others returned again and again.
"New York in Cologne" has been an ongoing program since that time. "COLOGNE in NEW YORK" is an attempt for a musical dialogue which also includes representatives of the younger generation having emerged twenty years after the Cologne movement (The "Kölner Schule"), the descendants of our "masters" Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mauricio Kagel, and Bernd Alois Zimmermann. We will present in New York: Clarence Barlow and Carola Bauckholt, composer-performers Chris Newman, Manos Tsangaris, Frank Köllges, the Cologne Saxophone Mafia and jazz, and rock from the "Stadtgarten, including "Schlager"-composer Arno Stelfen.
From composed music to improvised music, from new music theater to performance, minimal music here and there, from electronic to computer music: shared questions, different approaches. The same is not the same, and it is hoped that the dialogue will last longer than from April 11 to April 16, 1989. Renate Liesmann-Gümmer (BACK) Tuesday, April 11, The Kitchen, 8:30 PM KAGEL & CO. Mauricio Kagel PHONOPHONIE William Pearson, voice / Carola Bauckholt, voice / Caspar J. Walter, sound mix
Chris Newman SELECTED POEMS (1979-88); CELTIC LULLABY (1984): PIANO PIECES Chris Newman, voice / Richard Braun, piano / Michael Riesler, sax/clarinet / Manos Tsangaris, drums Wednesday, April 12, The Kitchen, 8:30 pm STOCKHAUSEN Karlheinz Stockhausen MANTRA Pi-Hsien Chen and Richard Braun, pianos Caspar J. Walter, sound mix
Knitting Factory, 11:00 pm SOLO DUO Frank Köllges and Michael Riessler
Thursday, April 13, The Kitchen, 8:30 pm
IN BETWEEN Carola Bauckholt TRIO (WP) for two cellos and piano Manos Tsangaris ELEPHANTS CRY SALT TEARS Manos Tsangaris, voice and sounds
The Knitting Factory, 11:00pm DUO DUO Thomas Heberer and Dieter Manderscheid Georg Ruby and Wollie Kaiser
Friday, April 14, The Kitchen, 8:30 pm IN BETWEEN Frederic Rzewski plays Walter Zimmermann and Nicolaus A. Huber Arno Steffen / Dieter Krauthausen SCHLAGER
The Knitting Factory, 11:00 pm ALL SAX Kölner Saxophon Mafia
Saturday, April 15, The Kitchen, 2:00 - 5:00 pm, and 6:00-10:00 pm co-presented and co-produced by COMPOSERS' FORUM and GOETHE HOUSE, live broadcast on WNYC-FM MARATHON Compositions by: Vinko Globokar / Karlheinz Stockhausen / John Cage / Bernd Alois Zimmerman / Paulline Oliveros / Walter Zimmermann / Jon Gibson / Chris Newman / Robert Ashley / Mauricio Kagel / Carola Bauckholt / Jack Vees / Annea Lockwood / Clarence Barlow / String Trio of New York / Kölner Saxophon Mafia / Frank Köllges
Sunday, April 16, The Knitting Factory, 9:00 pm A GATHERING OF OLD AND NEW FRIENDS Concluding Party of COLOGNE / NEW YORK Gregory Roll, Designer + Fred Weidner & Son, Printers
