John Cage’s Variations: Alive and Well in the 21st Century - A talk by David Miller :: March 13, 7:30 pm :: free :: Mobius, 725 Harrison Ave., Boston.

In March 2007, the Mobius Artists Group and guest artists presented John Cage’s Variations VII, for the first time since its original performances in 1966. This was one stage in a long-term project of investigating and producing all eight of Cage’s Variations pieces, in the order of their creation. Variations VII will be presented at Mobius again, in a redeveloped version, on April 18-19.

On March 13, David Miller, producer of the Mobius Variations project since 1996, will give some background on Cage’s work and the Mobius project. He will share some insights gained by the collaborators regarding the challenges of redeveloping these works today, and will show videos comparing two of the Mobius versions, Variations V and Variations VII, with Cage’s originals four decades earlier. This will be an informal expansion of a talk given by Miller at the University of New Hampshire last September, at a symposium celebrating the 95th anniversary of Cage’s birth.