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Charles Shere was born in Berkeley, California, in 1935, and grew up there and on a small farm in Sonoma county.
A writer and composer, he studied English literature, musical composition, and conducting. His music, influenced by Ives, Webern, Stockhausen, Thomson, Cage, Duchamp, Stein, and Joyce, includes graphic and standard notation, open and closed forms, and tonal and non-tonal harmonic language.
Charles Shere
Original music from the Duchamp Opera:
The Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Even
1964-84, composed with Marcel Duchamp’s permission
(playing during the exhibition)
Screen 6:07
Ces desir du quatuor 6:12
Bride Arias 13:20
Sonata: Bachelor Machine 15:47
Like a piece of silvered glass, with screen 10:26
String Quartet 16:55
Screen with Variations 6:41
January 9 - February 7, 2010
THE SEDUCTION OF DUCHAMP
BAY AREA ARTISTS’ RESPONSE
CURATED BY:
Hanna Regev
& Steven Lopez
Charles Shere, Maquette for the Duchamp Opera, Score & 1984 Program
1964-84, mixed media: cardboard, paper, strings, score, printed booklet; overall dimensions
Marcel Duchamp, Letters to Charles Shere
1964 & 1967, inkjet print from original letters
“This work is excerpted from, and functions also as documentation of, an opera in three acts composed between 1964 and 1984.” Charles Shere
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