Charles Amirkhanian introduces the young American pianist Richard Bunger who has written a book entitled The Well Prepared Piano and has just released a fine album of new music for prepared and unprepared piano on Avant (AV 1008).

Charles Amirkhanian introduces the young American pianist Richard Bunger who has written a book entitled The Well Prepared Piano and has just released a fine album of new music for prepared and unprepared piano on Avant (AV 1008). Bunger plays music of John Cage, Henry Cowell, Harold Budd, and E. T. Paull live in the studio, and we hear other pieces from recordings, including The Perilous Night by John Cage, Prelude No. 4 for Piano and Tape by Morton Subotnick, and Chorale for Quarter Tone Piano by Charles Ives.

The Well-Prepared Piano book. Richard Bunger, whose full name is Richard Bunger Evans and now refers to himself as Richard B. Evans, is an American composer and pianist who worked with John Cage and produced an avant-garde classic, The Well-Prepared Piano.

Richard Bunger Evans, also known as Richard Bunger, (born 1942) is an American composer and pianist who worked with John Cage and subsequently wrote "the classic book on John Cage," The Well-Prepared Piano. Evans has composed and performed. Evans has composed and performed music for opera and musical theatre, piano, art songs, prepared piano, choral music, string orchestra and chamber music. Evans continues to compose and perform in these various genres, and is highly respected as an accompanist to singers.

A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects (called preparations) on or between the strings. Bunger, Richard (1973). The Well-Prepared Piano. Colorado Springs: Colorado College Music Press. 2 Historical precedents. Pasler, Jann (2000). Race, Orientalism, and Distinction in the Wake of the 'Yellow Peril'. In Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music, ed. Georgina Born and David Hesmondhalgh. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press, p. 107.

The prepared piano, impressions I had from the work of artist friends, study of Zen Buddhism, ramblings in fields and forests of. .

The prepared piano, impressions I had from the work of artist friends, study of Zen Buddhism, ramblings in fields and forests of mushrooms, all led me to the enjoyment of things as they come, as they happen, rather than as they are possessed or kept or forced to be. This text was written in 1972 as a foreword for Richard Bunger’s The Well-Prepared Piano (The Colorado College Music Press, Colorado Springs, 1973; reprinted Litoral Arts Press, 1981). It was slightly changed for reprinting in John Cage, Empty Words: Writings ’73-’78 (Wesleyan University Press, 1979), and has been further revised.

richard bunger: The Well Prepared Piano. History and experience teach that safety is possible. At last, a book on the prepared piano of John Cage, dedicated both

richard bunger: The Well Prepared Piano. At last, a book on the prepared piano of John Cage, dedicated both. Bulgarian-born pianist Tzenka Dianova has been extremely active. on stage, both as a soloist and chamber musician, winning numerous prizes in national and international competitions.

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Richard Bunger wrote a book The Well Prepared Piano in which he explains how Cage prepared his pianos and even which pianos are suitable, because of the deviation of string lengths within different types of brands. Bunger also clarifies why the preparations were done in such ways, in other words, what sound it causes per adaption. The timbre of the instrument changes heavily when you prepare, but also how you prepare.

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