Is This John Cage’s Most Beautiful Piece?

An analysis of John Cage’s Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (1950-1951) by composer Samuel Andreyev.

00:00 Introduction
03:15 The Structure
04:15 Instrumentation
05:15 Prepared Piano
06:03 Compositional Process
07:55 The Rhythmic Structure
12:36 The Score
17:26 Two Different Worlds
18:52 Breakdown
20:10 Favourite Moment
22:37 Conclusions

The recording used for the musical excerpts is by the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra under the direction of Lukas Foss, with soloist Yuji Takahashi.

I found the following texts helpful while researching this video:
• James Pritchett, 'From Choice to Chance: John Cage’s Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra’
• ‘John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra’ by Martin Iddon and Phillip Thomas
• ‘Silence’, by John Cage

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