Joshua Pierce Plays Michael Harrison's Revelation: Music for the
Harmonically Tuned Piano and John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for
Prepared Piano - Performance at East Hampton's John Drew Theater at
Guild Hall on September 1

The internationally acclaimed pianist Joshua Pierce will present Piano
Metamorphosis, featuring two pioneering and innovative works of the
20th and 21st centuries - Michael Harrison's Revelation: Music for the
Harmonically Tuned Piano and John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for
Prepared Piano at the John Drew Theater at Guild Hall, 158 Main Street
in East Hampton, New York on Wednesday, September 1 at 7:00 PM.

Joshua Pierce's 20-year association and work with the late pioneering
innovator-composer John Cage is legendary.  Mr. Pierce's landmark series
of recordings of Cage's keyboard music for the German Wergo label: John
Cage, Works for Piano and Prepared Piano Volumes I, II, III, IV and
Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano have received many prizes,
much critical acclaim and in 1991 won the Prieses Der Deutschen
Schallplattenkritik.  Mr. Pierce collaborated with both John Cage and
the work's dedicatee, pianist Maro Ajemian in preparation of this landmark
recording of which David Hurwitz: "...  Joshua Pierce is the greatest
living exponent of Sonatas and Interludes"

Composed for a new "non-tempered" microtonal tuning that Michael
Harrison invented, Revelation is a modern approach to the ancient
principles of pure intonation and harmonic resonance.  The work introduces
never-before-heard combinations of modes, harmonies, and acoustical
phenomenon that have been praised in The New York Times as "a new harmonic
world...  generating huge golden balls of vibrant sound," and in Stuart
Isacoff's new book Temperament as "he seemed to free an angelic choir
above."

Tickets for this performance are $25, 35 and $45 for box seats, with a
reception in the garden following the performance.  To make reservations
or for more information, please contact the Guild Hall Box office at
631-324-4050.

Grammy nominated pianist Joshua Pierce has performed in prestigious
music centers throughout the world as a soloist and with an extraordinary
array of orchestras including the Royal Philharmonic, London Philharmonia,
Symphony Orchestra of Russia, Moscow State Philharmonic, Berlin Radio
Symphony Orchestra, and the Czech Radio Symphony Orchestra.  He has
recorded nearly 200 works including numerous world premieres as a soloist
and with orchestra for EMI Classics, Carlton Classics, Helicon, Koch
International Classics, MMC, Phoenix, Pro Arts, Sony Classics, Vox and
other labels.  His landmark series of recordings of John Cage's music
on the Wergo label has earned him tremendous acclaim worldwide.  His
25-year collaboration with the pianist Dorothy Jonas, as part of the
two-piano team, Pierce & Jonas, has resulted in numerous acclaimed
recordings and performances, including a command performance with the
Royal Philharmonic for England's Royal Family.  For more information,
visit http://www.jamesarts.com/pierce/index2.html.

Composer and pianist Michael Harrison is one of the world's leading
composers working with just intonation and rational number based tuning
systems as applied to the piano. His work has been hailed as "an
indisputable landmark in Western tuning's circuitous history" (Kyle Gann,
The Village Voice).  In 1986, he created the "harmonic piano" with the
ability to play up to 24 notes per octave.  As a disciple of La Monte
Young, Harrison prepared all of the specialized tunings for Young's 6-"
hour historical work, The Well-Tuned Piano, and became the only other
person to perform the work.  In 1999 Harrison performed his own epic
composition, From Ancient Worlds (New Albion Records), in Rome at the
"Festival 4 Pianoforti." A celebration of America's visionary
composer/pianists, the festival featured full-length solo performances
by Harrison, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, and Charlemagne Palestine.
Revelation received its world premiere in 2001 at Germany's prestigious
Klavier Festival Ruhr.  In October of the same year the work was premiered
in the U.S. at Composers Collaborative's Solo Flights festival at Lincoln
Center.  For more information visit http://www.michaelharrison.com.

For more information about these artists, please contact Jeffrey James
Arts Consulting at 516-797-9166 or [log in to unmask]

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