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astle which was everything you could want from a fairy tale location we might have thought this would be the fun part of the trip since looking back i think we all approached halberstadt with a bit of trepidation what kind of strange event would we be attending was this to be some kind of wild eyed geeky wonderment or some ponderous painfully earnest musicologist s private fantasy what we quickly found was as far from both as one could get the most wonderfully warm generous and delightful people who completely knocked us out with their commitment and hospitality in a thoroughly charming small town with wonderful places and sights and a musical project which in spite of moving at the slowest pace any musical performance has yet achieved was at once vibrant historic and curiously emotional there was a note change earlier this year but we couldn t go the edition peters companies have been for the last 70 years or so just a loose association of sometimes cooperative firms broken up by both the holocaust and the establishment of the ddr last august after 17 arduous years of directed effort they merged into one harmonious business we had thought our lives might be a little quieter after that but we couldn t have been more wrong the last note change fell on nicholas s birthday as it happens but even that didn t give us the freedom to attend thursday august 4 after a morning s work we headed off to heathrow airport for the short hop to berlin where we ll stay overnight we re booked into a suite novotel an extraordinary chain of hotels across germany in which every room in every hotel is identical all the services bath shower rooms closets loos and so on are in a self contained pod built into one part of the room after you ve been to a few of these hotels you really have to check your itinerary when you wake up each morning to establish which city you re in because the identical nature of every room throughout the chain is extremely disorienting on the other hand the rooms are a good size perfectly comfortable in a kind of german business hotel way and incredibly well thought through so that everything you might has already been provided it s like living the optimized life we have dinner at a marvelous restaurant in what used to be the east german part of the city which was recommended to us by the berlin lawyer who got us through the edition peters reunification legalities the decor is just as it must have been 25 years ago before the wall came down but the food is magnificent astonishingly an excellent meal with wine cost only 50 euros or about 70 friday august 5 woke up in berlin a slight fight through the breakfast room getting two tiny little tasty sausages with scrambled eggs which neatly kills off the good effect of the muesli and fresh fruit and how we re on the train to magdeburg the landscape around berlin is beautiful and a constant reminder of the past outside our hotel was the magnificent facade of all that is left of the old anhalterbahnhof like a stage set really a la billy wilder s symphonie einer grossstad t and now on the train we ve passed potsdam and surrounding lakes we ve also moved from sunshine to rain just a moment ago while working away at the laptop we heard a faint sound which we couldn t quite identify was it the computer s fan going wrong we finally realized that it was the sound from the halberstadt website which we had recently opened and which was now quietly playing the music that is sounding in the buchardi kloster through the laptop speakers john cage reaching out to us already before we reach each station one hears a happy little tun over the train speakers encouraging us to put on our walking boots and climb a big mountain and breathe in the healthy air it s torture after the fifth time at first we think it doesn t work at all with organ2 aslsp streaming from the laptop but then we remember cage s musicircus and think may this is just fine after all arriving at halberstadt station we re greeted by martje hansen who kindly ushers us to the breathtaking house in which she and her husband rainer neugebauer live on the domplatz it used to be the town library and in a sense it still is the official library may have been moved to specially converted space not far away but there are probably nearly as many books in the collection still in place stretching across the many bays that run along the front of the house overflowing into side rooms and spaces it is the most extraordinary living space and simultaneously a magical and fascinating collection of literature arts and objets rainer who is one of the main organizers of the john cage organ project and who acts as master of ceremonies on the note change days has more or less lost his voice fortunately a pharmacist has been called who has gone straight for a maximum chemical assault on the virus seemingly with good effect because something of rainer s voice has returned he has a great deal of public speaking to do during the rest of the day so we hope the recovery is sustained after lunch another of the heroes of the halbertstadt cage project joins us dr harriet watts originally from texas a member of a particularly select group of human beings americans who live in europe it doesn t make a great mnemonic but its members have a remarkable combination of qualities all the energetic can do and pizazz that can make americans so exciting and unnerving to europeans coupled with thorough immersion in european culture and style which seem sometimes to baffle other americans in harriet it s a particularly powerful mix unlike the average english speaker she has thoroughly mastered german and we speak the local language together far more than her native english she is involved in all manner of important cultural projects around the area as well as with the cage organ project and evidently accepts no boundaries to what can be done she lives in nearby quadlinburg possibly the prettiest and most delightful town in germany so she will also be staying with martje and rainer in halberstadt tonight posted by john cage trust at 2 16 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 16 may 2018 the passing of pia gilbert 1921 2018 pia gilbert ever youthful at 95 ralph benko the john cage trust mourns the passing of dear pia gilbert 1921 2018 who died at home in her upper west side apartment in new york on monday may 14 pia was a close friend to many including john cage and merce cunningham and she was among my very first teachers during my graduate school years at u c l a her life was rich and amazing you can access her oral history conducted at u c l a in 1986 1987 here you can also access a beautiful blog posted last year by the author dawn denham formerly haines here which centers around pia s close friendship with the late american mezzo soprano jan degaetani while pia is very much associated in my mind with los angeles where she was close to the entire schoenberg family she retired from u c l a in 1985 and relocated to new york where she took up a teaching position at the juilliard school she is survived by her daughter vivian her brother hans and his wife barbara and their three children rebecca jonathan and sarah i am personally quite saddened by her death and new york doesn t feel quite the same without her laura kuhn posted by john cage trust at 2 04 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags pia gilbert 19 march 2018 a eulogy for gary lincoff 1942 2018 the mycological world and beyond mourns the unexpected death on friday march 16 2018 of one of its brightest lights gary lincoff lincoff was well known in the field of mycology the author of no less than seven mushroom identification guidebooks including the essential audubon field guide to mushrooms 1981 and the complete mushroom hunter 2015 rev edition 2017 he was an early member of the new york mycological society reconstituted from two much earlier iterations by john cage guy g nearing lois long esther dam and ralph ferrara in 1962 click here for a lengthy letter cage wrote to disgruntled society members two years into its new existence lincoff became one of cage s long time friends and valued colleagues lincoff later also became active with the connecticut westchester mycological association coma and the north american mycological association nama serving the latter as president from 1983 to 1988 he also taught classes on mushroom identification and related topics at the new york botanical gardens lincoff was expert and charming with an infectious enthusiasm about all things fungi that charged many a budding amateur mycologist you might recognize him from the 2008 canadian feature film know your mushrooms directed and produced by ron mann sphinx productions in which he and montana s own mycologist restauranteur larry evans were featured as myco visionaries i never met lincoff without question my loss but i ve known many people who were moved and inspired by him in addition to john cage including the author david rose whose work has been featured on kuhn s blog several times i ve heard david speak about lincoff many times and it s never been without reverence and an affectionate smile rose delivered a eulogy at lincoff s funeral yesterday at the plaza jewish community chapel on amsterdam avenue in manhattan this eulogy appears below with his kind permission lincoff is survived by his wife of many years irene liberman their son noah lincoff and his brother bennett lincoff laura kuhn _____________ eulogy for gary lincoff on behalf of the connecticut westchester mycological association coma i offer my sincere condolences to irene and noah to gary s family and to the countless friends of gary lincoff in the mycological community and beyond gary touched us all in a profound and indelible way he taught us the science of fungi and he helped us to know the beauty of the natural world in marvelous intimate detail the physicist richard feynman once recommended to his students st udy hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined irreverent and original manner possible i think we know that gary lincoff did just that he forged his own path in mycology botany and nature study in doing so he helped to create a living lively community gary s involvement with coma began in 1975 the same year coma was founded he gave countless lectures he came to every foray and his last lecture was just last saturday at coma s mushroom university which one might say was really gary lincoff university a winter tutorial on mushroom genera and species that we ve sponsored for several years gary gave an annual lecture for coma every spring i always enjoyed introducing him for it gave us a chance to cut up and have fun right before his talk i once introduced him by reciting the title of every talk he ever did for coma this exercise literally took well over five minutes and he was slightly exasperated and amused by this but i wanted everyone to know that here is a scholar whose dedication is absolutely unstoppable going back almost half a century and that was just for coma he did this for the new york mycological society for the telluride mushroom festival and for how many others the audubon society field guide to north american mushrooms was our bible i have three copies the first is utterly ruined from a thunderstorm on a foray in the woods but i will treasure it always for g ary s inscription to sue and dave and lila and katie roses are much more interesting than mushrooms i want photos of all of you you deserve medals for showing such good humor at the driest foray in a quarter century that we found so many mushrooms anyway is magic which is what mushrooms are all about gary coma foray 30 september 1995 and at that foray i will never forget the special attention he gave to my daughters teaching them how to identify gomphus and leccinum and other fascinating mushrooms gary was the socrates of mycology that is not a mi s placed exaggeration he really did employ the socratic method just as he incorporated history biography epistemology and literary perspectives into his educational process he was a true educator education means drawing one out he drew us out and taught us time and again in the words of henry david thoreau that nature works from reverence and that the man of most science is the man most alive and whose life is the greatest event not so long ago gary took to posting quotations from thoreau on his facebook page in his book a week on the concord and merrimack rivers thoreau said this what after all does the practicalness of life amount to the things immediate to be done are very trivial i could postpone them all to hear this locust sing the most glorious fact in my experience is not anything that i have done or may hope to do but a transient thought or vision or dream which i have had i would give all the wealth of the world and all the deeds of all the he roes for one true vision gary lincoff provided us with that one true vision when so much of our world is garishly fraudulent gary lincoff was authentic his magnanimous friendship was authentic he was loved by countless thousands of people and he changed the world for us we will miss him 18 march 2018 david rose connecticut westchester mycological association coma posted by john cage trust at 12 40 pm email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest tags know your mushrooms 2008 audubon field guide to mushrooms connecticut westchester mycological association coma david rose gary lincoff larry evans new york mycological society 25 december 2017 seasons greetings from the john cage trust home begins outside john cag e posted by john cage trust at 7 26 am email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest 06 november 2017 all over but the shouting music for merce walker art center 2017 quinta ikue mori peter selway christian wolff david behrman john king joan la barbara zeena parkins fast forward george lewis the marvelous interdisciplinary exhibition merce cunningham common time walker art center minneapolis 2 8 7 30 2017 museum of contemporary art chicago 2 11 4 30 2017 has come to an end this landmark show the visionary work of fionn meade and philip bither with joan rothfuss and mary coyne focused on cunningham s dynamic artistic collaborations with a great many people including john cage trisha brown jasper johns robert morris david tudor nam june paik robert rauschenberg frank stella and countless others one of the high points was music for merce a two night celebration a pair of concerts curated by longtime cunningham musician john king these were heard first at the walker mcguire theater 2 23 and 2 24 then repeated at chicago s mca 2 25 and 2 26 each evening consisting of a separate set of solo duo and ensemble works each concluding with a collectively made realtime composition billed simply as event compositions were by the performers themselves 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