Organ Works by Christian Wolff, Frank Abbinanti, John Cage, J. S. Bach & Gerhard Staebler

Gerhard Staebler currently lives and works in Essen, West Germany. Of the presentations he will make as part of the MillerComm89 series, he says, "To be silent, to be still has great significance with regard to learning and cognition which holds particularly in music. For here sound can become smooth, disarmed, choked, and corrugated by the structure of silence. Here silence might mean no more or not yet, as it were a union of end and beginning. Excerpts and examples from my compositional work will be juxtaposed and compared with contemporary as well as early literature and music. The lecture intends to be an interdisciplinary effort, thus possibly of equal interest for the regions of art, sociology, political science, and psychology."

Lecture

Monday, March 6, 1989 at 8:00pm

New Music Building Auditorium
1114 West Nevada, Urbana

Concert

Wednesday, March 8, 1989 at 8:00pm

The Recital Hall, Smith Music Hall
805 South Mathew, Urbana

In conjunction with: School of Music, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Humanities Council/LAS, The Lorado Taft Lecture Committee, The Goethe Institute, George A. Miller Committee