{"id":2513,"date":"2021-05-21T06:01:06","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T22:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/culturelink.com.sg\/dev\/?post_type=productions-on-tour&#038;p=2513"},"modified":"2021-07-14T20:42:14","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T12:42:14","slug":"satiefaction","status":"publish","type":"productions-on-tour","link":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/culturelink.com.sg\/all-productions-on-tour\/satiefaction\/","title":{"rendered":"SATIEFACTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>\u201cIt\u2019s not a question of Satie\u2019s relevance. He\u2019s indispensable.\u201d &#8211; John Cage<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Margaret presents a multimedia evening of Satie and Satie-inspired music from John Cage, Toby Twining and Federico Mompou performed on piano and toy piano.<\/p>\n<p>Satie, the iconoclastic eccentric Frenchman, a precursor of Debussy and Ravel, had a huge influence on John Cage. Cage was profoundly impressed by Satie\u2019s disregard for the rule-book, his embrace of the absurd and the surreal, his unaffected blurring of high and low art. Fittingly Cage\u2019s text on Satie will be performed, along with excerpts from Satie\u2019s writings narrated by actor Daniel Jenkins.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Programme Highlights<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Satie\u2019s <em>Sports et Divertissements<\/em> (Sports and Pastimes), a cycle of 21 short piano pieces composed in 1914, will be heard along with Satie\u2019s accompanying texts and projections of Charles Martin\u2019s original illustrations.<\/p>\n<p>Tan will perform Cage\u2019s Satie-influenced <em>Dream<\/em> and <em>In a Landscape<\/em> to images from her Erik Satie theatrical collaboration with Great Small Works. She will also present one of Cage\u2019s last compositions, his <em>Extended Lullaby<\/em> for twelve music-boxes, in her own multiple-toy piano arrangement.<\/p>\n<p>Toby Twining\u2019s hauntingly melancholic <em>Satie Blues<\/em> for toy piano and piano, and Can\u00e7\u00f3 i Dansa No. 1 by the Spanish miniaturist Federico Mompou (1893 \u20131987) deservedly round out <em>SATIEfaction<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not a question of Satie\u2019s relevance. He\u2019s indispensable.\u201d &#8211; John Cage Margaret presents a multimedia evening of Satie and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2535,"template":"template-detail_productions-on-tour.php","meta":[],"class_list":["post-2513","productions-on-tour","type-productions-on-tour","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/culturelink.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions-on-tour\/2513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/culturelink.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/productions-on-tour"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/culturelink.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/productions-on-tour"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/culturelink.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/culturelink.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glutenfreepleasure.com\/__proxy_domain\/culturelink.com.sg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}