Time Will Pronounce - For John Cage

For John Cage

14:23

London Brass

• Mark Bennett, trumpet
• Tony Cross, trumpet
• Anne McAneney, trumpet, flugelhorn
• Chris Pigram, trumpet, flugelhorn
• Richard Bissill, horn
• Lindsay Schilling, trombone
• Richard Edwards, trombone
• David Purser, trombone, euphonium
• David Stewart, bass trombone
• Oren Marshall, tuba

• Assistant engineer: Tristan Powers

Mark Bennett was a guest performer on The Kiss and Other Movements. The piece is named because the work was completed on August 12, 1992, and Nyman read in the newspaper the following day that John Cage had died, although Cage's influence is not directly felt in the piece, and Nyman acknowledges the piece might not be to his taste. On earlier sheets of the work, he noted the deaths of Miles Davis (who died September 29, the day it was begun) and Ástor Piazzolla. The working title for the piece has been "Canons, chorales and waltzes," but Nyman rejected this because there was only one canon, one waltz, and no chorales. The work features a non-simultaneous multiplicity of the group operating more like ensembles that constantly change.

This piece was first performed November 16 at Norton Knatchbull School in Ashford, Kent, and was recorded five days later at Abbey Road Studios.