In-person! Bowerbird presents Stuart Jackson: works by David Tudor and John Cage
Friday, January 16 at 8:00 PM
Bowerbird presents Stuart Jackson: works by David Tudor and John Cage Bowerbird is pleased to present percussionist Stuart Jackson performing Solo for Cymbal and Coefficient: Frictional Percussion and Electronics PROGRAM John Cage: Solo for Cymbal (1960) David Tudor: Coefficient: Frictional Percussi...
In-person! Bowerbird presents Stuart Jackson: works by David Tudor and John Cage
In-person! Bowerbird presents Stuart Jackson: works by David Tudor and John Cage
Bowerbird presents Stuart Jackson: works by David Tudor and John Cage Bowerbird is pleased to present percussionist Stuart Jackson performing Solo for Cymbal and Coefficient: Frictional Percussion and Electronics PROGRAM John Cage: Solo for Cymbal (1960) David Tudor: Coefficient: Frictional Percussion and Electronics (1991) This event is part of A VIEW FROM INSIDE: DAVID TUDOR AT 100 , an exhibition at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery from January 15 to March 21, 2026. Major support for A View from Inside has been provided by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage with additional support from the Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia . ABOUT THE ARTISTS Stuart Jackson is a percussionist and uilleann piper from Virginia, currently based in Montréal, Canada. As a researcher, he specializes in reconstructing poorly documented and unpublished electroacoustic works from the 20th century. This project on reviving experimental compositions has received support from the Fonds de recherche du Quèbec and the Paul Sacher Stiftung in Basel, Switzerland. He has presented solo percussion concerts at the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal (MAC) and Ausgang Plaza in Montréal, and performed as an uilleann pipe soloist with the Soho Rep Theatre and the Wordless Music Orchestra. With the Montréal percussion ensemble Sixtrum, he has performed at the Timespans Festival in New York City, Semaine du Neuf in Montréal, and the Musica Festival (with Les Percussions de Strasbourg) in Strasbourg, France. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Université de Montréal working with Jonathan Goldman and Guillaume Boutard. Admission is FREE/pay-what-you-wish
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Bowerbird presents Stuart Jackson: works by David Tudor and John Cage Bowerbird is pleased to present percussionist Stuart Jackson performing Solo for Cymbal and Coefficient: Frictional Percussion and Electronics PROGRAM John Cage: Solo for Cymbal (1960) David Tudor: Coefficient: Frictional Percussion and Electronics (1991) This event is part of A VIEW FROM INSIDE: DAVID TUDOR AT 100 , an exhibition at Drexel’s Pearlstein Gallery from January 15 to March 21, 2026. Major support for A View from I...
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In-person! Bowerbird presents Stuart Jackson: works by David Tudor and John Cage starts at 8:00 p.m. and ends at 9:30 p.m.
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