Concerts

Radio Happening

Calendar IconThursday, October 6, 2022

Join 45th Parallel Universe‘s The Gemini Project and some of your favorite All Classical Portland hosts for Radio Happening. This special collaboration includes a live performance of The City Wears a Slouch Hat, a 1942 radio play by John Cage and Kenneth Patchen. Louanne Moldovan directs the cast of well-loved All Classical Portland radio hosts Warren Black, Robert McBride, Suzanne Nance, Brandi Parisi, John Pitman, and Sarah Zwinklis.

Radio Happening explores the powerful role that radio has played in advancing artistic risk-taking, innovation, and sharing classical music with wider audiences. This live concert event will be recorded for future broadcast on All Classical Portland.

WORKS

John Cage: 4’ 33”
John Cage: Works for Prepared Piano:
– Third Interlude
– Sonatas XIV and XV (Gemini — after the work of Richard Lippold)
– Sonata XII
John Cage: The City Wears a Slouch Hat

PERFORMERS

James Shields, clarinet
Maria Garcia, prepared piano

The Gemini Project:
Sergio Carreno, percussion
Jon Greeney, percussion
Chris Whyte, percussion
Gordon Rencher, percussion

All Classical Portland:
Warren Black
Robert McBride
Suzanne Nance
Brandi Parisi
John Pitman
Sarah Zwinklis

Raúl Gómez-Rojas, conductor
Louanne Moldovan, director