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Lecture on the weather

Title
Lecture on the weather / John Cage.
Author
Cage, John.
Publication
1975.

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Notated musicSupervised use JPB 95-3 Folder 505Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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Additional Authors
  • Amacher, Maryanne.
  • Frangella, Luis.
  • Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Description
12 parts ([154] leaves); 28 cm.
Subjects
Note
  • Typescript, signed in ink.
  • Materials for an unconducted radio broadcast or theatrical performance; recordings of breeze, rain, and thunder; a film representing lightning by means of briefly projected negatives of drawing by Thoreau; and a preface.
  • "For 12 speaker-vocalists (or instrumentalists), preferably American men who have become Canadian citizens, each using his own sound system given an equalization distinguishing it from the others."
  • "...I have chosen to work again with the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Those excerpts which are used...were obtained by means of I Ching chance operations from Walden, from the Journal, and from the Essay on civil disobedience." -- from prerface.
  • Commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in observance of the bicentennial of the United States of America.
  • Dated: Stony Point, N.Y., September 1975.
  • Recordings by Maryanne Amacher; film by Luis Frangella.
Call Number
JPB 95-3 Folder 505
OCLC
NYPG96-C127
Author
Cage, John.
Title
Lecture on the weather / John Cage.
Imprint
1975.
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Added Author
Amacher, Maryanne.
Frangella, Luis.
Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.
Research Call Number
JPB 95-3 Folder 505 Public service copy
JPB 94-24 Folder 443 Originals -- Permission required
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