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Hearing Postwar Art - art and music symposium, Menil Collection, May 10 and 11
Friday at 5:00pm until Saturday at 8:00pm

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  Friends, please join me for this year's Vivian L. Smith Foundation Fellowship Symposium on May 10 and 11. I have been organizing this event around my own research theme of music and art in the postwar period. It will include music and lectures by prominent art historians in the field of visual music. Hope to see you there and I will update the event as needed. Please email me at mwarak@menil.org with any questions.
  
  FRIDAY, MAY 10
  
  6:30 p.m. line upon line (Austin, TX)
  Menil Collection lawn
  1515 Sul Ross St, Houston, TX 77006
  
  Percussion Ensemble:
  Adam Bedell
  Cullen Faulk
  Matthew Teodori
  
  Set List:
  Steve Reich (b. 1936), Drumming Part 1 (1971)
  Steve Snowden (b. 1981), A Man with a Gun Lives Here (2010)
  I. Be Prepared to Defend Yourself
  II. There Are Thieves About
  III. A Man with a Gun Lives Here
  Iannis Xenakis (1922 – 2001), Okho, (1989)
  
  
  SATURDAY, MAY 11
  
  5:00 p.m. Hearing Postwar Art
  Former Byzantine Fresco Chapel
  4011 Yupon St, Houston, TX 77006
  
  Schedule:
  Melissa Warak, introductions
  
  Dr. Liz Kotz, University of California, Riverside, “Convergence of Music, Dance and Sculpture c. 1961”
  
  Craig Hauschildt, Houston, TX
  Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928 – 2007), Vibra-Elufa (2003)
  
  Dr. Leo G. Mazow, University of Arkansas, “Archive, Anthology, and the Later Career of Thomas Hart Benton”
  
  Craig Hauschildt and Brandon Bell, Houston, TX
  Fluxus Set
  
  Ben Vautier (b. 1935), Audience Piece No. 10 (1966)
  
  Robert Bozzi (dates unknown), Choice 18 (1966)
  
  Ken Friedman (b. 1949), Empaquetage pour Christo (1967)
  
  Emmett Williams (1925-2007), Song of Uncertain Length (1960)
  
  George Brecht (1926-2008), For a Drummer, Fluxversion 4 (1966)
  
  Ken Friedman, Telephone Clock (1967)
  
  Milan Knizak (b. 1940), Smile Game (1965)
  
  Yoko Ono (b. 1933), Lighting Piece (1955)
  
  George Brecht, Comb Piece (1962)
  
  Emmett Williams, For La Monte Young (1962)
  
  George Brecht, Drip Music, Fluxversion 1 (1959)
  
  George Brecht, For a Drummer, Fluxversion 2 (1966)
  
  Alison Knowles (b. 1933), Proposition (1962)
  
  Ken Friedman, Homage to Christo (1968)
  
  George Brecht, For a Drummer, Fluxversion 5 (1966)
  
  Peter Frank (b. 1950), Thank You Piece (date unknown)
  
  Damon Smith, Houston, TX
  Benjamin Patterson (b. 1934), Variations for Double Bass (1961)
  
  Prof. Simon Shaw-Miller, University of Bristol, “Nam June Paik and Marcel Duchamp: An Ontology of Music”
  
  David Dove and Ensemble, Houston, TX
  Cornelius Cardew (1936 – 1981), Treatise (1963 - 1967)
  
  Ensemble:
  Abel Cisneros (drums, percussion)
  David Dove (trombone)
  Ryan Edwards (guitar, voice)
  Jason Jackson (saxophones)
  Ivette Roman-Roberto (voice)
  Damon Smith (double bass)