funky piano concert

[Julian.West@mac.dartmouth.edu]

Last night I heard an interesting concert of 20th century
piano music, played by the avantgarde virtuoso Anthony
de la Mare. Two of the pieces were works by John Cage
incorporating texts from Finnegans Wake and "treating
the piano as a percussion instrument throughout".  

Speaking to Mr de la Mare after the concert, I mentioned
other contemporary settings of Joycean texts, and told
him about difficulties that the "musician Kate Bush" had
with the Joyce estate. He replied that he hadn't heard
the new album yet, but "admired Kate Bush a lot". Cheering.

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