Identifier7737110
Created AtTue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Media Typeflac
Media Count1
NoteDVD Newer Jazz
Trades Allowed
Performance
John Cage 1975-??-?? Columbus College Auditorium, Columbus, GA
Set 1Empty Words
Music for Marcel Duchamp
Set 2
Set 3
Comment"Empty Words" is a four-part "non-syntactical" work based on the journal of Henry David Thoreau. For the reading, Mr. Cage sat at a desk with a lamp and a watch, the text on a book stand, and read part of the third part of the work, which has only syllables and letters.

Mr. Cage performed "Music for Marcel Duchamp" (1947) on a prepared piano, which I believe was an upright piano rather than a concert grand. The work was written for Duchamp's segment of the film "Dreams That Money Can Buy" by Hans Richter.