Marathon Song Cycles
In 1999 Mark Mallman performed a 26-hour long song titled "Marathon 1". Later, in 2004, Mallman’s s “Marathon Two” session took place back at the Turf Club in St. Paul, Minn. Seventy-five musicians took turns backing Mallman as he performed one song for over two consecutive days, only breaking to go to the bathroom. On October 10, 2010, he completed "Marathon 3", a 78 hour long song complete with 576 pages of lyrics. During the performance, he injured his left foot. He finished at 10pm on Sunday night by biting into a bouquet of flowers and spitting them over the crowd. Mayor Chris Coleman declared Oct 7-10th, 2010 “Mark Mallman Days” in St. Paul, Minnesota in honor of his creative achievement. The mayor's proclamation included the statement “Whereas Mark Mallman is totally AWESOME.” On September 15, 2012 he started "Marathon IV: Road Rouge", a 7day, 150 hour plus performance that will take him from New York to Los Angeles.
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Famous quotes containing the words marathon, song and/or cycles:
“The mountains look on Marathon—
And Marathon looks on the sea;
And musing there an hour alone,
I dreamed that Greece might still be free;
For standing on the Persians’ grave,
I could not deem myself a slave.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“Who is at my window, who, who?
It’s the blind cuckoo, mulling
the old song over.
The old song is about fear, about
tomorrow and next year.
Timor mortis conturbat me, he sings....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists.”
—Linda Goodman (b. 1929)