VEXATIONS
Friday–Saturday, March 11–12, 2:00 pm–2:00 pm
White Plaza, located on Lasuen Mall

Stanford faculty and students take on Erik Satie's Vexations, a short piano piece to be played 840 times. In 1963, John Cage organized a 19-hour performance and recruited a rotating squad of pianists. Afterwards, Cage went home and slept. "...when I woke up, I felt different than I had ever felt before...I had changed and the world had changed," he said, adding that other people had the same experience. Stanford's Music Department has organized a 24-hour Vexations in White Plaza with alternating pianists. The conclusion of the work leads directly into White Plaza Event #1.

Learn More:
Erik Satie's Vexations. An article by Stephen Whittington
John Cage
Stanford Music Department