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Mobilités sérieuses: The Vexations Crawl

Leap Before You Look installation view, photo: Steven Takacs
November 16 - November 17, 2016
4:15PM - 4:15PM
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Add to Calendar 2016-11-16 16:15:00 2016-11-17 16:15:00 Mobilités sérieuses: The Vexations Crawl Time: Various Event Host: School of Music, Department of Art, Department of History of Art, Department of Classics, Department of Philosophy, The Arts Initiative, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Barbara and Sheldon Pinchuk Arts-Community Outreach Grant Short Description: Vexations, one of the most famous but obscure compositions by French composer, Erik Satie (1866-1925). It is a brief, chromatic work for piano that lasts around two minutes, but is, by the composer’s apparent instruction, to be repeated 840 times, thus taking around 30 hours to perform. Vexations, one of the most famous but obscure compositions by French composer, Erik Satie (1866-1925). It is a brief, chromatic work for piano that lasts around two minutes, but is, by the composer’s apparent instruction, to be repeated 840 times, thus taking around 30 hours to perform.  Faculty, students, and friends of the Department of Art and the School of Music are delighted to present a full performance of this radical work, beginning at 11 a.m. on November 16, continuing through the night and following day, and ending around 5 p.m. on November 17.  See flyer below for event locations:The event is part of Blueprints for a Past Future, an exhibition and related programs in the Hopkins Hall Gallery that revisit the history of Black Mountain College’s radical educational program.For more information visit the Wexner Center for the Arts.  Various College of Arts and Sciences asccomm@osu.edu America/New_York public
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Event Host: School of Music, Department of Art, Department of History of Art, Department of Classics, Department of Philosophy, The Arts Initiative, Wexner Center for the Arts, and Barbara and Sheldon Pinchuk Arts-Community Outreach Grant
Short Description: Vexations, one of the most famous but obscure compositions by French composer, Erik Satie (1866-1925). It is a brief, chromatic work for piano that lasts around two minutes, but is, by the composer’s apparent instruction, to be repeated 840 times, thus taking around 30 hours to perform.


Vexations, one of the most famous but obscure compositions by French composer, Erik Satie (1866-1925). It is a brief, chromatic work for piano that lasts around two minutes, but is, by the composer’s apparent instruction, to be repeated 840 times, thus taking around 30 hours to perform.  

Faculty, students, and friends of the Department of Art and the School of Music are delighted to present a full performance of this radical work, beginning at 11 a.m. on November 16, continuing through the night and following day, and ending around 5 p.m. on November 17.  

See flyer below for event locations:

The event is part of Blueprints for a Past Future, an exhibition and related programs in the Hopkins Hall Gallery that revisit the history of Black Mountain College’s radical educational program.

For more information visit the Wexner Center for the Arts. 

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