Between 1972-1974.
New York. When Cage had recourse to an agent, he chose Artservices, founded
in 1972 by Jane Yockel (1926-1990), Mimi Johnson, and Margaret Wood; his agent
mainly being Mimi Johnson.
Prior to or during January 1972. Interviewed by King Kong International (Cage/Anonymous 1972).
January 4-29, 1972. New York, Martha Jackson Gallery, 32 East 69th Street. Exhibition, Concept & Content. Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel on exhibit (Anderson, L. 1972; Kramer, H. 1972).
January 1972. Berlin, Galerie Kleber (Uhlandstrae
184), Cage Objekt-72, Objekt und Graphik von Mark Brusse; Kompositionen von
Cage (January 10-28, fifteen afternoon concerts). Attended exhibition on his
work by sculptor Mark Brusse and performances of his music by Eberhard Blum, Variations I; Dorothea Brinkmann
(contralto); Peter Roggenkamp (piano); Claude Lelong (viola); Christoph Kapler
(violoncello) (Burde 1972a; Stuckenschmidt 1972a).
1972. Composed 52/3.
Prior to January 26, 1972. Wrote On Dylan Thomas [text].
January 29, 1972. Cologne, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Musik der Zeit. S.E.M. Ensemble performed Song Books.
February 1, 1972. Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Academy
of Music. Performed with Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and
Dance Company: first performance of 52/3
to Landrover (Barnes, C. 1972).
February 6, 1972 or earlier. Brooklyn, New York,
Brooklyn Academy of Music. Performed with Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce
Cunningham: How to Pass, Kick, Fall, and
Run and Event # 26 (Kisselgoff
1972).
February 28, 1972. Ypsilanti, Michigan, Eastern
Michigan University. Performed Mureau;
Ann Arbor, Michigan. Interviewed by Catherine Kalbacher (Kalbacher 1972, 142,
157).
March 17, 1972. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Moore College of Art. Performed Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued 1971-1972.
April 1972. Witten, Wittener Tage fr neue
Kammermusik. Music for Amplified Toy
Pianos performed; Cage not in attendance.
April 1972. Albany, New York, State University of New
York, Electronic Music Studio. Composed Bird
Cage (completed later that month in New York) and produced tapes, assisted
by Joel Chadabe; performed (Chadabe 1972; Chadabe 1975, 173; Chadabe 1983).
April 1972. Wrote How the Piano Came to Be Prepared.
April 3-May 4, 1972. Filmed by Hans G Helms for Bird Cage/73'20.958" for a Composer.
April 7, 1972. New York. Interviewed by Hans G Helms
(recordings).
April 10, 1972. New York. Attended memorial service
for Stefan Wolpe and was, with Hilda Wolpe, Milton Babbitt, and Elliott Carter,
among those who spoke (In Memoriam S. W.).
April 13, 1972. San Francisco, California, San Francisco Museum of Art. San Francisco Conservatory of Music New Music Ensemble performed HPSCHD; Cage presumably not in attendance (Commanday 1972).
April 14, 1972. Letter to Scott Kenney (Cage
1987-1988d).
April 14-15, 1972. San Francisco, California, Project Artaud. San Francisco Conservatory of Music New Music Ensemble performed HPSCHD; Cage presumably not in attendance.
April 16, 1972. Letter to Boudewijn Buckinx, in which Cage described the essence of the first version of Variations VIII as machines themselves without anything given to them (e.g. tape machines without tapes). The work was not written down until 1976 (Buckinx 1972, 170).
April 17, 1972. New York, Steinway and Sons Pianos Bulding (109 West 57th Street), basement. Performed Winter Music for film by Hans G Helms with Maro Ajemian, Louise Basbas, Justin Blasdale, Philip Corner, Arnold Epstein, Don Gillespie, Edna Golanski, Doris Hays, Carla Hubner, Jeanne Kirstein, Titiana Mardikian, Stephen Mayer, Frederic Rzewski, Grete Sultan, Margaret Tan, Katherine Teves, David Tudor (Helms 1972 [films]).
May 4-9, 1972. Bremen, Pro musica nova, organized by
Hans Otte, Radio Bremen. Attended; performed with David Tudor: Mureau (Cage, announced as Mueau) with Tudor, Rainforest (Tudor) (May 5, Groer Glockensaal); Sixty-two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham
(Cage) with Tudor, Untitled (Tudor)
(May 8, Sendesaal); opening of exhibition Hren und Sehen:
Texte–Bilder–Environments (May 6-June 6); Peter Roggenkamp
performed Music for Marcel Duchamp
(May 6, Kunsthalle); interviewed by Gerhart Asche and Nikša Gligo (Asche
1972; Bachmann, C.-H. 1972c; Bachmann, C.-H. 1972d; Bachmann, C.-H. 1972e;
Baucke 1972a; Baucke 1972b; Cage/Asche 1972; Cage/Gligo 1973; Eberle 1972;
Haessig 1972; Hommel 1972a; Krellmann 1972a; Krellmann 1972b; Krellmann 1972c;
Lesch 1972a; Lesch 1972b; Lesch 1972c; Lesle 1972b; Lex 1972; Limmert 1972a;
Limmert 1972b; Matysiak 1972; Mnch 1972; Mumma 1975b, 311-312; Polaczek 1972b;
Tudor/Scheib 1996; Weibach 1986; Zghart and Neubauer 1972a; Zghart and
Neubauer 1972b).
May 12-15, 1972. The Hague. Attended; Doris Hays
(piano), the Residentie Orkest, Richard Dufallo conducting, performed program,
Het land van Cage: Concerto for Prepared
Piano and Chamber Orchestra, as well as music by Henry Brant, Earle Brown,
Charles Ives, Edgard Varse (May 13, evening, Nederlands Congresgebouw); public
conversation with Ton de Leeuw (May 13, late night, HOT Theater?); Mobiel
Ensemble Nederland coached by Jan Stulen gave first performance of Cheap Imitation [version for orchestra,
24 instruments], pronounced public rehearsal by Cage (May 13, late evening,
Nederlands Congresgebouw); lectured, performed Cheap Imitation (piano version) and read from Diary: How to Improve the World; WGBH-TV presented (May 13, afternoon, HOT Theater); Mobiel Ensemble
Nederland and Jan Stulen performed Atlas
Eclipticalis and Cheap Imitation
(orchestra version) (May 14, evening, Congresgebouw) (Becker-Carsten 1972; Cage
1973e, xiv-xvi; Cage 1979c, 93; Cage/Charles
1976, 183-184; Kullberg 1972; Paap 1972; Parool
1972; Vermeulen 1972a; Vermeulen 1972b; Vlasakker 1972; Volkskrant 1972).
May 18, 1972. Bonn, Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Konzerte
der Stadt Bonn, Tage Neuer Musik. Performed with David Tudor, Mureau with Rainforest (Tudor); Johannes Ghl, Vincent Schab, Josef Anton
Riedl, Chris Price, slide and light environments (Bachmann, C.-H. 1972a; Bruck
1972).
May 22, 1972. London, Royal Albert Hall. Performed
with David Tudor: Sixty-Two Mesostics re
Merce Cunningham (Cage) with Tudor, Untitled
(Tudor); Mureau (Cage) with Tudor, Rainforest (Tudor); interviewed by Joan
Bakewell (Cage/Bakewell 1972; Jack 1972a; Music
1972; PHS 1972a; Sadie 1972).
June 1972. In Paris (Cage 1973h, 192).
Prior to June 6, 1972. Presumably performed in
Brussels and Frankfurt (Funk 1972; Oesch 1972a).
June 6, 1972 [according to U.I. 1972 June 5]. Basle,
Stadttheater, Foyer. Performed with David Tudor, Mureau, simultaneously with David Tudor, Rainforest (Tudor); interviewed by Thomas Lehner (Bachmann, C.-H.
1972b; Erni 1972; Husler, R. 1972a; Holliger/Bachmann 1991; Huber, C. 1972a;
Knauer 1972; Lehner 1972; Lyotard 1972, 66; Mangold 1972; Mry 1972; My. 1972; Oesch 1972a; Redi
1972).
Mid-June 18, 1972. Berne, Helmhaus, Kammerkunsthalle. John Cage: Partituren, Geschichten, Plexigramme, Siebdrucke (U.I. 1972; Werk 1972).
June 1972. Netherlands, Holland Festival. During rehearsal withdrew Cheap Imitation (orchestra version), to be performed by Mobiel Ensemble, coached by Michel Tabachnik, from performance (Cage 1973h, xiv; Cage 1979c, 93).
June 1972. Rotterdam. Dutch National Ballet first performed Twilight, choreographed by Hans van Manen on The Perlious Night; performed March 2, 1973, Stratford-upon-Avon, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, by the Royal Ballet (About the House 1973).
June 28, 1972. Birmingham, England, Arts Lab. Arts Lab Sound Workshop performed Variations V (Potter, K. 1972).
June 30, 1972. New York, New School for Social
Research, Auditorium, sixtieth-birthday concert: Gordon Mumma, Philip Corner,
James Fulkerson, Max Neuhaus and Gregory Reeve performed: Song Books (Mumma), Atlas
Eclipticalis (Mumma, conductor; Fulkerson, trombone; Neuhaus and Reeve,
percussion) with Winter Music
(Corner); Nam June Paik film A Tribute to
John Cage shown; Cage not in attendance (Ericson 1972a ; Johnson, Tom 1972).
July 2, 1972 (6 pm). Pamplona, Ciudadela, Sala de
Armas, Encuentros de Pamplona (June 26-July 3), organized by Grupo Alea.
Performed with David Tudor: Sixty-Two
Mesostics re Merce Cunningham with Tudor, Untitled (Tudor) (Cage/Charles 1976, 212n; Charles 1972; Charles
1973a; Esteban 1972; Jameux 1972; Jover and Amestoy 1972; Perez Ollo 1972; Sarmiento Garca 2002).
July 11-18, 1972. Berlin, Woche der Avantgardistischen
Musik Berlin: Spiel Klang Elektronik Licht (July 11-18), organized by Walter Bachauer,
Berliner Festspiele, Berliner Kunstprogramm of the Deutscher Akademischer
Austauschdienst. Attended in part; performed with David Tudor, An Event (Mureau with Tudor, Rainforest, July 11, 1972, Akademie der Knste, Studio); with
Cornelius Cardew, Morton Feldman, Frederic Rzewski and David Tudor,
participated in the first performance of Morton Feldman, Five Pianos (Pianos and
Voices) (July 16, Sender Freies Berlin, Groer Sendesaal Masurenallee);
David Tudor, Frederic Rzewski, Cornelius Cardew, Antoinette Vischer performed HPSCHD, technical realization by Josef
Anton Riedl and ensemble (July 18, Philharmonie, foyer and concert hall); made
the acquaintance of Joan La Barbara (Burde 1972b; Cage/Sweeney-Turner 1991, 4;
Endlich and Hynck 1988, 119-120; Khn, H. 1972; La Barbara 1977; Sznt 1992; Woodard
1991).
July 13, 1972. Flight between Frankfurt am Main and
Basel. Wrote July 13, 1972 (Cage 1973JULY).
Early August 1972. New York. Interviewed by Theodore
Price (Price, T. 1972).
August 13, 1972. London, Roundhouse, Chalk Farm, BBC Proms, International Carnival of Experimental Sound (August, Harvey Matusow, initiative). At opening concert, David Tudor, Richard Bernas, Cornelius Cardew, Annea Lockwood, Frederick Page, John Tilbury and Roger Woodward performed HPSCHD; Cage presumably not in attendance (Chapman, E. 1972; Moore, Ch. 1972; Sutcliffe 1972).
August 30, 1972. Munich, Bayerischer Rundfunk
(Rundfunkplatz 1), Musik Film Dia Licht Festival (August 29-September 2),
Kunstprogramm der XX. Olympischen Spiele. Attended, gave first performance of Bird Cage, with Monobird by David Tudor (live electronics, first performance)
(Studio 2, evening); Nam June Paik, Tribute
to John Cage and John Cage, WGBH-TV
shown (September 1, Studio 1, afternoon) (Frnkel 1972; Koch, G.R. 1972b).
September 5-8, 1972. Shiraz and Persepolis, 6th
Festival of Arts Shiraz-Persepolis (August 31-September 8). Performed with
Gordon Mumma. David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company: Open Air Theatre Event (September 5,
evening, Shiraz, Open Air Theatre); with Gordon Mumma and David Tudor: Bird Cage (Cage) with Monobird (Tudor); Mumma performed Mumma,
Ambivex (September 7, evening,
Shiraz, Open Air Theatre); Persepolis
Event (September 8, evening, Persepolis) (New
Yorker 1973; Vaughan 1997, 186).
September 1972. Venice, Biennale di Venezia, 35th
International Festival of Contemporary Music. Performed with Merce Cunningham
and Dance Company (two performances at the Teatro La Fenice, one at a theater
in Mestre, and one on the Piazza San Marco, Event);
participated in panel discussion (Kagel 1975, 28; New Yorker 1973; Vaughan 1997, 186).
September 1972. Belgrade, Museum of Modern Art and
Atelier 212, Theatre, BITEF Festival. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance
Company, among other pieces Canfield,
which won the grand prize of the BITEF Festival (Vaughan 1997, 186).
September 22, 1972. Warsaw, Sixteenth Warsaw Autumn.
Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company: Cheap Imitation [piano] to Second
Hand; David Tudor, Rainforest;
Gordon Mumma, Telepos to TV Rerun (Kondracki 1972a; Vaughan 1997,
186).
September or October 1972. London, Sadlers Wells Theatre. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Vaughan 1997, 186).
Early October 1972. Cologne, Opera House. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Vaughan 1997, 186).
Early October 1972. Dsseldorf. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (changed from Kunsthalle to the premises of a nearby restaurant), Event (Vaughan 1997, 186).
October 3, 1972. Hattingen, S-Press Studio. Recorded Mureau (recordings).
October 1972. Grenoble, Maison de la Culture. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Vaughan 1997, 186).
October 1972. Milan, Teatro Lirico, Milano aperta. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Vaughan 1997, 186).
October 1972. Paris, Thtre de la Ville, Festival dautomne. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Event (Vaughan 1997, 186).
October 17-November 17, 1972. Kingston, Rhode Island, University of Rhode Island, Fine Arts Center, John Cage: Graphics, Mushroom Book on exhibit.
October 20-22, 1972. Donaueschingen, Donaueschinger
Musiktage: attended reception in his honor (October 21, morning); first
presentation of Bird Cage/73'20.958"
for a Composer, film by Hans G Helms (October 21, afternoon and evening)
(Anders 1972; Bitz 1972; Bhmer 1972; Burde 1972c; Cage 1973h, xii; Coss
1972; Herbort 1972; Heyd 1972a; Heyd 1972b; Hommel 1972b; Hw. 1972;
Jungheinrich 1972; Koch, H. W. 1972a; Koch, H. W. 1972b; Krellmann 1972d;
Lewinski 1972; Lichtenfeld 1973; Lienert 1972; Limmert 1972c; Lohmller 1972;
Lonchampt 1972; Lck, R. 1972; Ludewig 1972; Math 1972; Panke 1972; Polaczek
1972c; Rexroth 1972; Ringger 1972; Schnebel 1973a, 9; Schnfeldt 1972;
Schorr 1972a; Schorr 1972b; Schwinger 1972b; Trumpff 1972; Werner, R. 1972).
November 3, 1972. New York, New York University, Loeb
Student Center (Washington Square), Prospective Encounters, presented by the
New York Philharmonic. Michael Tilson Thomas conducted and moderated program
(shared with David Del Tredici) including Credo
in Us, Quartet from She Is Asleep,
performed by Gordon Gottlieb, Richard Fitz, Howard Van Hyning, Raymond Des
Roches with Paul Jacobs (piano), and selections from Sonatas and Interludes (Tilson Thomas); Cage and Del Tredici in
attendance; question periods (Ericson 1972b; Kerner 1972).
November 28-December 1, 1972. Toronto, Ontario, Ontario College of Art. 36-Hour Cage-In celebrating his sixtieth birthday, organized by Udo Kasemets; Cage not in attendance (Littler 1972).
December 17, 1972. London, Round House. Musicircus performed, realized by
Jocelyn Powell; Cage not in attendance (Horner 1972; PHS 1972b).
December 20, 1972. Hamburg, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Das Neue Werk, 138. Abend. Das Sinfonieorchester des NDR, Michael Gielen, coach and pianist, performed Cheap Imitation (orchestra, twenty-five instruments) in shared program with music by Pierre Bartholome and Helmut Lachenmann; Cage not in attendance (Baucke 1972c; Becker-Carsten 1973; Dannenberg 1972; Dannenberg 1973; Hofmann, W. 1972; Hofmann, W. 1973; Lesle 1972a; Tomzig 1972; Wagner, K. 1973a; Wagner, K. 1973b).
1973. Cincinnati, Ohio, Carl Solway Gallery.
Exhibition.
1973. Seattle, Washington, Madrona Dance Studio and Opera House. Merce Cunningham conducted master classes.
1973-April 1973. Cuernavaca, Mexico and Plattsburgh, New
York. Wrote Series re Morris Graves
[text].
Prior to January 21, 1973. New York. Interviewed for The New Yorker (New Yorker 1973).
January 21, 1973 (afternoon). New York, Lincoln Center
for the Performing Arts, Alice Tully Hall (Broadway and 66th Street), New and
Newer Music Series, A John Cage Retrospective in observance of his sixtieth
birthday year: The Ensemble, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor, performed 27'10.554" for a Percussionist (Roy
Pennington, Gordon Gottlieb), Cheap
Imitation (orchestra coached by Cage, led by Davies from the piano), Concert for Piano and Orchestra (Max
Lifchitz, piano), Music for Wind
Instruments; Cage probably in attendance; interviewed previously by Jan
Hodenfield (Henahan 1973a; Hodenfield 1973; Johnson, Tom 1973a; New York Times 1973; New Yorker 1973; Schonberg 1973).
February 6-7, 1973. Fredonia, New York, State
University College at Fredonia, Michael C. Rockefeller Arts Center. Performed
with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance
Company, Events (beginning of winter
tour).
February 9-10, 1973 (evening). Stony Brook, New York,
State University of New York, University Gymnasium. Residency. Performed with
David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance
Company, Gymnasium Event (February
10).
February 15-16, 1973. Montral, Qubec, Universit de
Montral, Centre communautaire, Musialogues, 2 Journes avec John Cage.
LAtelier-laboratoire de la Facult de musique, directed by Robert Lonard,
performed Amores, She Is Asleep, Suite for Toy Piano, and The
Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs; Peut-on connatre John Cage?: public
conversation with Maryvonne Kendergi; question period (February 15, evening,
2332 Edouard-Motpetit); Musialogue Midi with students of the faculty
(February 16, afternoon, 2375 Ct Ste. Catherine); film du service de la
recherche de lORTF; Mureau,
collective performance with students of the faculty (February 16, evening, 2332
Edouard-Motpetit) (Rivest 1997b;
Thriault, J. 1973).
February 18, 1973. Princeton, New Jersey, Mc Carter
Theatre. Performed with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company, Event.
February 21, 1973. New York, Town Hall. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, lecture-demonstration; Cages participation uncertain.
February 22, 1973 (afternoon). New York, PS 41 (116 West 11th Street). Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Event; Cage possibly participated.
March 7, 1973. New York, Columbia University, McMillin
Theater (Broadway at 116th Street), John Cage 60th Birthday Retrospective
Concert. The Performers Committee for Twentieth-Century Music (Cheryl Seltzer
and Joel Sachs, directors) performed 59
1/2" for a String Player (viola); Aria;
Dream; Experiences No. 2; Imaginary
Landscape No. 4; First Construction
(in Metal); Five Songs for Contralto;
Music for The Marrying Maiden; Sonata for Clarinet; Suite for Toy Piano (with dance); Three Dances; Experiences No. 2 and Suite
for Toy Piano with the Gail August Dancers; Cage in attendance (Masheck
1973, 76).
March 15, 1973. Brooklyn, New York, Saint Anns Episcopal Church, Auditorium. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company gave informal performance; Cages participation uncertain.
March 22-25, 1973. Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn
Academy of Music. Performed with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and
Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Event
#65 (March 22, including Signals,
Cartridge Music to first performance
of Changing Steps, Loops and TV Rerun); Event #66
(March 23); Event #67 (Canfield) (March 24); Event #68 (March 25, matinee)
(Kisselgoff 1973).
March 27-29, 1973. Albany, New York, State University of
New York. Residency of Merce Cunningham and Dance Company; lecture
demonstration; Cage possibly participated (March 28). Performed with David
Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Gymnasium Event #69 (March 29).
March 30-April 1, 1973. Ithaca, New York, Cornell University.
Residency Merce Cunningham and Dance Company; lecture demonstration (with
Gordon Mumma only, March 31); performed with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David
Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Gymnasium Event #70 (April 1).
April 3-4, 1973. Geneseo, New York, State University
College. Residency Merce Cunningham and Dance Company; lecture-demonstration;
Cage possibly participated (April 3); performed with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma,
David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Event #71 (April 4).
April 5-7, 1973. Brockport, New York, State University
College. Residency of Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Performed with Merce
Cunningham, Dialogue (April 6); with
David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance
Company, Gymnasium Event #72 (April
7).
April 8-11, 1973. Athens, Ohio, Ohio University.
Residency of Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Performed with David Behrman,
Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Gymnasium Event #73 (April 11).
April 12-14, 1973. Kent, Ohio, Kent State University.
Residency of Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Performed with Merce Cunningham, Dialogue (April 13); with David Behrman,
Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Gymnasium Event #74 (April 14).
April 15-17, 1973. Oberlin, Ohio, Oberlin College.
Residency of Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Lecture-demonstration; Cage
possibly participated (April 15); took a weekend course in Chinese with William
McNaughton; performed with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company, Gymnasium
Event #75 (April 17) (Cage 1979c, 11).
April 17-May 12, 1973. New York, Willard Gallery (29 East 72nd Street). Exhibition of the work of Richard Lippold. For the invitation of the vernissage Cage wrote Grand Street and Monroe (for R.L. Twenty Years After).
April 19-21, 1973. Saranac Lake, New York, North Country Community College. Residency of Merce Cunningham Dance Company; performed with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Event #76 (April 21, Saranac Lake High School).
April 23-25, 1973. Plattsburgh, New York, State University of New York College. Residency of Merce Cunningham Dance Company; performed with David Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Gymnasium Event #77 (April 25).
April 26-28, 1973. Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth
College. Residency of Merce Cunningham Dance Company; performed with David
Behrman, Gordon Mumma, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Gymnasium Event #78 (April 27); with
Merce Cunningham, Dialogue (April
28).
May 2, 1973. Bonn, Tage fr Neue Musik: attended concert with works by Mauricio Kagel.
May 3, 1973. Bonn, Beethovenhalle, Tage fr Neue
Musik, Musik der Zeit IV: Neue Musik und Film (May 1-6), co-organized by
Kulturamt der Stadt Bonn and Westdeutscher Rundfunk Kln. Performed Bird Cage (eighteen channels),
simultaneously with film by Hans G Helms, Bird
Cage/73'20.958" for a Composer; question period (Bachmann, C.-H. 1973;
Beuth 1973; Duvenbeck 1973; Fuhrmann 1973; Schrmann 1973; Terschren 1973).
May 3, 1973. New York, Bank Street College (610 West
112th Street), Auditorium. S.E.M. Ensemble performed Song Books; Cage not in attendance (Rockwell 1973b; Rockwell
1973d).
May 3-6, 1973. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #79 (May 3); Event #80 (May 4); Event #81 (May 5); Event #82 (May 6); Cage did not participate.
May 18, 1973. New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Composers Showcase. Merce Cunningham performed; Cage did not participate.
May 19, 1973. Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox Gallery. Students of the State University of New York performed Field Dances; Cage did not participate.
June 14, 1973. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan
University Press. Publication of M:
Writings 67-72 (Cage 1973h).
July 14, 1973. Stony Point, New York. Interviewed by
Alan Gillmor and conversation with Roger Shattuck and Alan Gillmor
(Cage/Gillmor 1976; Cage, Shattuck and Gillmor 1982).
August 1973. Stony Point, New York. Composed Etcetera (magnetic tape of the
environment in which the material was written made by David Behrman, late summer
1973).
August 1973-1974, completed prior to August 8, 1974. Wrote Empty
Words (text).
September 4, 1973. Washington, D.C., Smithsonian
Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Baird Auditorium, Smithsonian
Resident Associates Program, 60th birthday concert: invited by Janet W.
Solinger, performed Mureau and Cheap Imitation (Flander 1973; Lowens
1973; Schoettler 1973).
October 5, 1973. Traveled to Paris for rehearsals of Etcetera.
October 1973. Paris. Interviewed by Alain Jouffroy and
Robert Cordier (Cage/Jouffroy and Cordier 1974).
November 6, 1973 (evening); repeats November 8-9, 14,
17, 22, 24. Paris, Thtre National de lOpra, Festival dAutomne Paris,
Festival International de Danse de Paris. Orchestre Cunningham, Marius
Constant, Catherine Comet and Boris de Vinogradow, conductors, gave first
performance of Etcetera to Un jour ou deux by Merce Cunningham,
Ballet de lOpra, set and costumes by Jasper Johns; attended by Max
Ernst, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Niki de Saint-Phalle, Jean Tinguely, Teeny
Duchamp, David Hockney, Richard Hamilton; interviewed by Jean-Yves Bosseur (Cage/Bosseur
1973; Charles 1978c, 157-164; Damian 1973-1974; Gola 1974; Harris, D. 1974; Informations & Documents 1973;
Koegler 1974; Lonchampt 1973; Maggie 1973; Rose, B. 1974;
Sarraute 1973; Schneider, P. 1973; Tardy-Marcus 1973).
November 1973. Paris. Composed Exercise.
November 12, 1973. Rome, Teatro delle Arti, Festival
dautunno. Performed with Merce Cunningham, Silence/Teatro concerto.
November or December 1973. Rome. Marcello Panni and
others gave first performance of Exercise (Cage/Bosseur 1973, 31).
December 7-8, 1973. New York, Kitchen (formerly in the
old Broadway Central Hotel, as part of the Mercer Arts Center, now at the
second floor of the old LoGiudiuce Building at the corner of Wooster and Broome
Streets to 59 Wooster Street and Broome Street), Two Evenings of John Cage. Jan
Coward, Don Gillespie, Garrett List, Phill Niblock, Roy Pennington, radios; Jim
Burton, Judith Sherman, newsreaders, gave first performance of Speech 1955 (December 8); further
performances by Philip Corner, Jon Deak, Linda Quan, Connie Beckley, Jan
Coward, Joel Chadabe (Jarvis and Landy 1973; Johnson, Tom 1973b; Rockwell
1973a).
December 9, 1973, 1 pm to midnight. New York, Grand
Central Station, Track 34-35, Tenth Annual Avant Garde Festival. Participated
by working at Empty Words (Duncan
1973; Kaufman 1973).
Late December 1973. London and Manchester. The London
Sinfonietta, Hans Zender conducting from the piano, performed Cheap Imitation, as well as music by
Earle Brown, and Elliott Carter (Schiffer 1974).
1974 or earlier.
Wrote statement for Vinko Globokars Orchester
(Polaczek 1986).
1974. Revised Two Pieces for Piano (circa 1935).
1974. Made 30 Drawings
by Thoreau.
1974. August or earlier. Wrote The Future of Music.
1974. August or earlier. New York, Young Mens Hebrew Association. Presented The Future of Music (Cage 1979c, 177).
January 29, 1974. New York, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Alice Tully Hall. Marie-Franoise Bucquet performed Book IV from Music of Changes and compositions by Erik Satie, Charles Ives, and Tru Takemitsu.
February 5-6, 1974. Mesquite, Texas, Eastfield
College, 20th Century Music Festival: attended performances of Winter Music and Etcetera (February 5, evening, Performance Hall); lectured
(February 6, afternoon, Performance Hall) and led a rap session (February 6,
afternoon, Fine Arts Building, Room 117).
February 8-17, 1974. Ileana Melita and Marc Furneaux performed Song Books (February 8, evening, Nijmegen, Cultureel Centrum De Lindenberg; February 9, evening, Middelburg, Wandelkerk; February 12, evening, Utrecht, Centrum t Hoogt; February 15, evening, Amsterdam, Concertgebouw, Kleine Zaal; February 16, evening, The Hague, Diligentia; February 17, evening, Groningen, Cultureel Centrum De Oosterpoort).
February 9-10, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #83 (February 9) and Event #84 (February 10); Cages participation uncertain.
February 16-17, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth: Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #85 (February 16) and Event #86 (February 17); Cages participation uncertain.
February 23-24, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #87 (February 23) and Event #88 (February 24); Cages (partial) participation uncertain.
February 23, 1974. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Center for the Arts, Crowell Concert Hall, An Evening with John Cage. Performed from Empty Words (possibly repeated on February 24) and, with Alvin Lucier and Richard Winslow, conducted student ensemble in Etcetera; on exhibit in the lobby Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel (Wesleyan 1993).
March 1-2, 1974. New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music
(30 Lafayette Avenue), Leperq Space. Performed with David Behrman, Jacques
Bekaert, Gordon Mumma, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Event #89 (March 1) and Event #90 (March 2).
March 8-10, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #91 (March 8); Event #92 (March 9); Event #93 (March 10); March 10 music by Christian Wolff; Cages participation uncertain.
March 16-17, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio,
Westbeth (55 Bethune Street). Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance
Company: from Empty Words to Event #94 (March 16); Event #95 (March 17).
March 20, 1974. New York, Town Hall. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company gave lecture-demonstration; Cages participation uncertain.
March 22-24, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #96 (March 22); Event #97 (March 23); Event #98 (March 24); Cages participation uncertain.
March 23, 1974. New York, Hunter College Playhouse
(695 Park Avenue), Benefit Concert for Center for New Music. Performed Part I
of Empty Words.
March 29-31, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #99 (March 29); Event #100 (March 30); Event #101 (March 31); on March 30-31 music by Christian Wolff; Cages participation uncertain.
April 1974. Witten, Wittener Tage fr neue
Kammermusik. Aria with Solo for Voice [sic], Atlas Eclipticalis, and Fontana Mix performed; Cage not in
attendance.
April 3-6, 1974. Portland, Oregon, Portland Art
Museum, John Cage in Portland, presented by Portland State University Cultural
Affairs Board and the Portland Art Museum. Attended (perhaps only April 4-6);
Robert Moran performed Sixty-two
Mesostics re Merce Cunningham (April 3); performed from Empty Words (April 5); Joseph Kubera
performed Sonatas and Interludes;
with Robert Moran and Eric Funk, conducted Etcetera,
performed by Portland State University New Music Ensemble (April 6); gave first
reading of The Future of Music [text]
(Christensen, L. K. 1974).
April 5-7, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #102 (April 5); Event #103 (April 6); Event #104 (April 7); Cages participation uncertain.
April 12-14, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #105 (April 12); Event #106 (April 13); Event #107 (April 14); Cages participation uncertain.
April 19-21, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #108 (April 19); Event #109 (April 20); Event #110 (April 21); Cages participation uncertain.
April 22, 1974. Hempstead, Long Island, New York, Hofstra University. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company gave lecture-demonstration; Cages participation uncertain.
April 26-27, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #111 (April 26); Event #112 (April 27); Cages participation uncertain.
April 28, 1974. Uniondale, New York, Nassar Coliseum. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #113; Cages participation uncertain.
May 2, 1974. Interviewed by Paul Cummings (unpublished).
May 4-5, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event #114 (May 4); Event #115 (May 5); Cages participation uncertain.
May 14-15, 1974. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Arts
Center. Performed with Merce Cunningham, Dialogue.
July 1974 or earlier. New York, St Pauls Chapel.
Karen Phillips, viola, and the Gregg Smith Singers performed Morton Feldman, Rothko Chapel, as well as music by Bruno
Maderna, Betsy Jolas, John Biggs, Edward Najera, William Bland, and Dale
Jergensen; Phillips performed Dream
(viola and vibraphone) (Shawn 1974).
July 21, 1974. London, Young Vic Theatre (66 The Cut),
organized by the London Music Digest. Richard Bernas performed Sonatas and Interludes; John Tilbury
performed Music of Changes (Griffiths
1974b).
July-August 1974. Stony Point, New York and New York.
Composed Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau)
and 23 Parts.
August 6, 1974. Stony Point, New York: David Behrman
made tape for Score (40 Drawings by
Thoreau) and 23 Parts.
August 8, 1974. Boulder, Colorado, Naropa Institute.
Invited by Chgyam Trungpa, gave first performance of Part IV of Empty Words (Cage/Anonymous 1975, 96;
Hayman, R.I.P. 1975c).
Fall 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio,
videotaped Westbeth: A Work for Video
with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, directed by Charles Atlas (Vaughan 1997,
191, 296).
September 5, 1974. 1 Central Street. Geoffrey Barnard, Lee Chittick, Phil Connor, Peter Evans, Roger Frampton, Ernie Gallagher, Rob Gray, Greg Matheson, Greg Schiemer, and Phil Treloar performed Variations IV.
September 24, 1974. Warsaw, Warsaw Autumn. Warsaw
Music Workshop performed Variations II.
Cathy Berberian performed Song Books.
September 24-25, 1974. Minneapolis/Saint Paul,
Minnesota. As guest composer of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, attended
performances of Music for Wind
Instruments, Six Melodies; as
well as music by Henry Cowell and Joseph Haydn (September 24, Saint Paul,
Macalester College, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Concert Hall; September 25,
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Auditorium (Vineland Place).
September 28, 1974. Saint Paul, Minnesota, I. A.
OShaughnessy Auditorium, Capital Series. Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Dennis
Russell Davies, conductor, gave first performance of Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts, as well as music by
John Frederick Peter, Henry Cowell, and Joseph Haydn; Cage in attendance as
guest composer; interviewed by Michael Anthony (Anthony 1974a; Anthony
1974b; Close 1974).
Prior to October 1974. Interviewed (statement) by Ear (Ear 1974).
October 20, 1974. Donaueschingen, Donauhalle Saal A, Donaueschinger Musiktage: Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, Clytus Gottwald, director, Hans Peter Haller, Experimentalstudio der Heinrich-Strobel-Stiftung des Sdwestfunks Freiburg, electronic modification, performed Song Books; Cage not in attendance.
October 28, 1974. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio,
Westbeth. Performed with Merce Cunningham, Dialogue.
November 22, 1974 (arrived November 21). Dallas, Texas, Southern Methodist University, Caruth Auditorium, with Ann Bidwell and James Rives Jones conducted student ensemble in Etcetera.
Prior to December 1974. Interviewed by Anthony Brown (Cage /Brown 1974).
1974-1975. New York. Composed Etudes Australes.
Prior to or during 1975. Wrote abstract of M (book) for RILM Abstracts of Music Literature (Cage 1975A).
January 1, 1975. New York, Saint Marks Church.
Performed from Mureau (recorded on
Giorno Poetry Systems Records GPS 005).
January 25, 1975. New York, Lincoln Center for
the Performing Arts, Alice Tully Hall. Grete Sultan performed from Etudes Australes (three etudes, I, II,
and VIII) and music by Claude Debussy and Ludwig van Beethoven; Cage in
attendance (Johnson, Tom 1975b; Paris 1975; Rockwell 1975c).
January 26-28, 1975. Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern
University, School of Music, John Cage at Northwestern. Attended in conjunction
with his deposition of Notations collection at Northwestern (exhibition,
through February 2, Northwestern University Library, Level I Lobby and Deering
Library); Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Rubenstein,
conductor, performed Atlas Eclipticalis
as well as music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Paul Hindemith (January 26,
Alice Millar Chapel, followed by public reception honoring Cage, Parkes Hall);
informal meeting with students (January 27, afternoon, Willard Hall [1865
Sherman Avenue], lounge); performed from Empty
Words [Part III] at concert featuring student performances of his music
(January 27, evening, Lutkin Hall [700 University Place]); classes (morning)
and informal discussion, moderated by Don L. Roberts (afternoon) (January 28,
Lutkin Hall) (Siegel, S. 1975).
January 29, 1975. To San Juan?
February 4-19, 1975. In Mexico?
February 3, 1975. Leipzig, 3. Rathauskonzert. Gruppe
Neue Musik Hanns Eisler, Burkhard Glaetzner conducting, performed Concert for Piano and Orchestra (K.
1975).
February 9, 1975. Wrote Nine Mesostics re Jackson Mac Lows Tree* Movie.
February 14, 1975. New York, Cunningham studio
(Westbeth). First public showing, following a live performance, of Westbeth.
February 24, 1975 (evening). Columbus, Georgia,
Columbus College, Fine Arts Hall. Performed Empty
Words Part III (with slide projector) and Music for Marcel Duchamp.
Prior to March 1975. International Contemporary Music
Exchange, directed by Igor Butekoff, selected Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra for list of
compositions representing the United States in its worldwide exchange of the
best contemporary orchestral music (Pan Pipes 1975).
March 3-April 13, 1975. Toured with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company.
Prior to March 8, 1975. Composed Child of Tree.
March 8, 1975. Detroit, Michigan. Performed with Merce
Cunningham: first performance of Child of
Tree to Solo.
March 14, 1975. Chicago, Illinois, Ida Noyes Gym,
presented by the Chicago Dance Foundation and the University of Chicago
Extension. Performed with David Behrman, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and
Dance Company: Event #126 (comprised
of sections from Loops, Landrover and Scramble).
March 22, 1975. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Presumably
performed Etcetera with Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company.
April 14, 1975. Traveled to Minneapolis/Saint Paul.
April 15-22, 1975. Minneapolis/Saint Paul, Minnesota.
Guest composer of the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; lectured [presumably
"The Future of Music"] (April 15 or 16); Grete Sultan performed from Etudes Australes (April 14, Saint Paul,
Macalester College, Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center, Concert Hall; April 16,
Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, Auditorium (Vineland Place); in Capital Series,
Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor, performed Atlas Eclipticalis, as well as music by
Mozart, Honegger, and Joseph Haydn (April 19, Saint Paul, Minnesota, I. A.
OShaughnessy Auditorium; April 21, Saint Paul, Minnesota, Orchestra Hall);
Cage in attendance (Close 1975).
April 24-25, 1975. Newark, University of Delaware,
presumably at Belmont Hall. Contributed to symposium (Clarke, G.E. 1977,
230n9).
May 3, 1975. New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music,
Lepercq Space, second annual Festival of Modern Combos. Attended performance of
HPSCHD by the Brooklyn Philharmonia,
organized by Joel Chadabe and Lukas Foss (Hayman, R.I.P. 1975b; Rockwell
1975a; Rockwell 1975b; Zakariasen 1975).
May 3, 1975 (presumably). New York, Bill Kings
studio. Interviewed by Daniela Morera (Cage/Morera 1976).
May 6, 1975. New York, Fordham University at Lincoln
Center, Faculty Lounge, Common Ground Festival (May 5-10). Performed from Empty Words, with slides (early evening)
(Flory 1975; New York Times
1975).
May 7, 1975. New York, Saint Marks Church. Performed
Part IV of Empty Words, with slides;
question period afterwards (Flory 1975).
June 2-6, 1975. Buffalo, New York, State University of
New York: June in Buffalo, Composers Workshop. Invited by Morton Feldman,
participated; lectured in the afternoons; attended rehearsals and performances
in the evenings; supervised performance of Etcetera;
S.E.M. Ensemble gave a controversial performance of Song Books; at a plenary session the day after the performance Cage
distanced himself from the performance (Gann 1988c; Hayman, R.I.P. 1975c).
June 16, 1975. Bremen, Radio Bremen, Sendesaal
(Heinrich-Hertz-Strae). Performed with Grete Sultan: from Part III of Empty Words (Cage); from Etudes Australes [six or seven,
including I-II, IV, VI, VII-VIII?; VII as first performance; performance
repeated] (Sultan) (Asche 1975; Neubauer, S. 1975; Tibbe 1975).
June 18, 1975. Bonn, Bonn Center, Kultur Forum
(Bundeskanzlerplatz), Music Recital Hall. Performed from Part III of Empty Words; Grete Sultan performed Etudes Australes [I-II, IV, VI-VIII];
Richard Armbruster, Jim Fulkerson and Stephen Montague performed Amores and Imaginary Landscape No. 1.
June 20, 1975. Munich, Oskar von Miller-Gymnasium,
Turnhalle (Siegfriedstrae 22), Neue Musik Mnchen, Musik in der
Schule, organized by Jugendkulturwerk Kulturreferat der Landeshauptstadt
Mnchen and Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neue Musik am Oskar von Miller-Gymnasium, Josef
Anton Riedl, program. Introduced by Dieter Schnebel, performed from Part III of
Empty Words; Grete Sultan performed from
Etudes Australes [I-II, IV, VI-VIII];
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neue Musik am Oskar von Miller-Gymnasium (Hans Gabnyi,
Cornelius Hirsch, Clemens von Schacky, Florian Tielebier-Langenscheidt, Norbert
Wetzel, Johannes Ghl, Michael Stralek), Dieter Schnebel, director, performed Credo in Us, Prelude for Meditation, from Six
Melodies for Violin and Keyboard (3, 5, and 6), 4'33", Radio Music, Variations II, Song Books (Polaczek 1975).
June 21-22, 1975. Stuttgart, John-Cage-Weekend,
organized by Sddeutscher Rundfunk, Musik unserer Zeit 1974-1975. Attended;
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Michael Gielen, conductor, Claude Helffer,
pianist, performed Concert for Piano and
Orchestra as well as music by Carl Ruggles, Charles Ives, and Colin McPhee
(June 21, Funkstudio Berg); Peter Roggenkamp performed Sonatas and Interludes [Sonatas I-IV, First Interlude, Sonatas
V-VIII], Music for Marcel Duchamp as
well as music by Charles Ives (June 22, matinee, Kunstgebude am Schloplatz);
interviewed by Hans Kumpf (June 22); performed with Grete Sultan: from Part III
of Empty Words (Cage), from Etudes Australes [I-II, IV, VI-VIII]
(Sultan); Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, Clytus Gottwald, director, Hans-Peter
Haller, sound engineer, performed Song
Books (June 22, evening, Kunstgebude am Schloplatz); parallel program
Cage in Kitsch, Ludwigsburg, Festspiele; Jrg Wyttenbach and Janka Brun
performed selections from Sonatas and
Interludes (June 21); interviewed by Hans Kumpf (Cage/Kumpf 1975;
Dannenberg 1975a; Dannenberg 1975b; Dehoux 1975; Gutscher 1975; Koch, G.R.
1975).
July 10, 1975. Interviewed by Garry E. Clarke (Clarke,
G.E. 1977, 230n3).
September 1975. New York. Interviewed by Walter
Zimmermann (Cage/Zimmermann 1976).
September 1975. Stony Point, New York. Commissioned by
Richard Coulter of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, in observance of the
Bicentennial of the United States of America, composed Lecture on the Weather, in collaboration with Maryanne Amacher (1938-2009)
and Luis Frangella (Cage 1979c, 3).
September 1975. New York. Commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, in observance of
the Bi-Centennial of the United States of America, began Renga (until April 1976) (Anonymous
1975JOHN-PETERS; Cage 1979c, 184; Cage 1975UNTITLED-PETERS; Time 1975).
September 19, 1975. New York. Interviewed by Rita H.
Mead (Mead 1981, 602).
September 19-21, 1975. Possibly visited Belgium
(presumably cancelled).
September 26, 1975. Warsaw, Warsaw Autumn. Simone Rist
and Musique et Scne daujourdhui performed Song Books.
November 18, 1975. San Jose, California, San Jose
State University, Concert Hall, Distinguished American Composer Series.
Performed with Grete Sultan: from part III of Empty Words; from Etudes
Australes (I-VIII, two performances, Sultan, first consecutive performance
of I-VIII); question period.
November 21-22, 1975. San Jose, California, San Jose
Center for the Performing Arts. Invited by Lou Harrison, performed with James
Tenney: conducted Atlas Eclipticalis,
performed by the San Jose Symphony Orchestra, simultaneously with Winter Music (Tenney); George Cleve
conducted the orchestra in Ravels Concerto in D for the left hand, Michel
Block, pianist, and in Brahms, Symphony No. 4 (Brown, Gloria 1975; Burmister
1975; Clark, S. R. 1975; Morgan, M. 1975; Tircuit 1975).
November 24, 1975. Fresno, California State
University, Music Recital Hall, organized by Department of Music and Student
Association. Performed from Part III of Empty
Words, Grete Sultan performed Etudes
Australes 1-8 twice.
December 2 and 5, 1975. New York, Roundabout Theatre
(333 West 23rd Street), presented by Dance Umbrella (November 12-December 7).
Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (presenting Events No. 143-148 on December 2-7, each
with a different composer), Event No. 143
(December 2) and, with David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company,
assisted Nam June Paik, Event No. 146
(December 5) (Barnes, C. 1975; Maskey 1976).
January 21-March 9, 1976. New York, Museum of Modern Art, exhibition, Drawing Now: 1955-1975. Page from Solo for Piano of Concert for Piano and Orchestra on exhibit (then from collection Jasper Johns) (Russell, J. 1976).
1975 or 1976. Composed Branches (score: in Cages autograph; CF. Cage 1979c, 114?,
121?***).
1976. New York. Composed Variations VIII.
1976. Bayside, New York, Queensborough Community College, City University of New York, Sonneck Society, Annual Meeting 1976. Attended.
Present at 1976. Brussels, Atelier rue Sainte-Anne, Les musiciens, les potes, les peintres et leur partitions. Exhibition (with others).
January 1, 1976. New York, Saint Marks Church.
Performed Song (Giorno Poetry Systems
Records GPS 009 [recordings]).
January 13 and 15, 1976. Princeton, New Jersey,
Princeton University, McCarter Theatre. Performed with Maryanne Amacher, David
Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company.
January 24, 1976. New York, The Kitchen. Saint Paul
Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, conductor, performed Atlas Eclipticalis, Music for Wind Instruments, Score
(40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts, and Six Melodies (Johnson, Tom 1976a).
Late January 1976. Caracas, Venezuela.
Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (four performances) (Cage
1979c, 130-131; Vaughan 1997, 197).
Late January or early February 1976. Cuernavaca.
Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company.
February 9-14, 1976. Mexico City. Presented by Ballet
Folklrico de Mxico and the Universidad Nacional Autnoma de Mxico, Direccin
General de Difusin Cultural, Departamento de Msica. Performed with Grete
Sultan; lectured (three different lectures; February 9, 11, and 13, early
evening, Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin [Londres 16], third floor theater);
performed from Part III of Empty Words;
Sultan performed from Etudes Australes
[I-VIII, performed twice] (February 14, early evening, Colonia Guerrero,
Violeta y Riva Palacio, Teatro Amalia Hernndez del Ballet Folklrico de
Mxico) (Heterofona 1976).
February 26, 1976. Toronto, Ontario, York University. John Barton, Michael Barton, David Grymes,
Andrew Jerryson, James Montgomery, James Rosenberger, Keith C. Sokol, Peter Anson, Jay Bowen, Miguel Frasconi, Jon
Higgins, Richard Manichiello, Vincent Murphy, David Rosenboom, Richard
Teitelbaum, speaking voices, singing voices and instruments; Maryanne Amacher,
realization of reel tapes, gave first performance of Lecture on the Weather; Cages participation or attendance
uncertain.
March 7, 1976. Oakland, California, Mills College,
Center for Contemporary Music. Performed Cheap
Imitation [piano] (recorded live on Cramps Records CRSLP 6117).
March 9-April 1, 1976. Perth. Performed with Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company.
March 15-20, 1976. Sydney, New South Wales, Opera
House, Opera Theatre. Performed with David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, and Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company: Christian Wolff, Music for Merce Cunningham to Rune
(Cage and Tudor, pianos); David Behrman, Voice
with Melody-Driven Electronics to Rebus,
Child of Tree to Solo (Cage); Gordon Mumma, Telepos
to TV Rerun (March 15-17); Maryanne
Amacher, Remainder to Torse (Tudor?); La Monte Young, Two Sounds to Winterbranch; David Tudor, Toneburst
to Sounddance; Third Week of March to Signals
(Cage, Kosugi, Tudor) (March 18-20); interviewed by Jill Sykes (Sykes 1976).
March 28, 1976 or slightly earlier. Interviewed by
William Weber (Weber, W. 1976b).
March 1976. Adelaide. Performed with Merce Cunningham
and Dance Company.
March 22, 1976. Adelaide, Festival Theatre, Adelaide
Festival of Arts. Performed Music for
Marcel Duchamp, from Empty Words,
Part III [perhaps replaced by preface from Lecture
on the Weather], and from Cheap
Imitation.
March 30-April 1, 1976. Canberra, Canberra Theatre.
Performed with David Tudor, Takehisa Kosugi, and Merce Cunningham and Dance
Company: Morton Feldman, Ixion to Summerspace, Sounddance, Signals,
Takehisa Kosugi, S.E. Wave/E.W. Song
to Squaregame (March 30); Christian
Wolff, Music for Merce Cunningham to Rune; David Behrman, Voice with Melody-Driven Electronics to Rebus; Child of Tree to Solo, TV Rerun (March 31); Torse; David Behrman, Voice with Melody-Driven Electronics to Rebus, Squaregame (April 1).
April 1976. Kyoto. Performed with Merce Cunningham and
Dance Company (Vaughan 1997, 198).
April 1976. Tokyo. Performed with Merce Cunningham and
Dance Company (Vaughan 1997, 198).
April 1976. Sapporo. Performed with Merce Cunningham
and Dance Company (Vaughan 1997, 198).
April 13, 1976. New York, Bloomingdales: preview
benefit party for the New York Philharmonic, opening the exhibition "Red,
White, and Bloomingdales", of model rooms, one of them dedicated to Cage;
Cage not in attendance (Klemesrud 1976).
April 15, 1976. New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music.
With Alan Rich, Tom Johnson and others in panel preliminary judging new music
ensembles in Competition of the Combos.
May-August 1976. New York; Stony Point, New York; Villiers-sous-Grez; La Rochelle; and New York. Composed Apartment House 1776.
May 14, 1976. Letter to Monika Frst-Heidtmann (Frst-Heidtmann 1979, 29n2).
June 3, 1976. Warsaw. First performance (presumably)
of Living Room Music (Music Educators Journal 1976).
July 3-4, 1976. La Rochelle, 4mes Rencontres
Internationales dArt Contemporain (June 26-July 10, Cage attended for four
days). Performed from Part III of Empty
Words; Grete Sultan performed from Etudes
Australes (I-X) (July 3, late afternoon, Htel de Ville); spoke at during
rehearsal and attended performance of Atlas
Eclipticalis by the Residentie-Orkest The Hague, Richard Dufallo
conducting, simultaneously with Winter
Music, performed by Richard Bernas and Grard Frmy, and Solo for Voice 45
from Song Books, performed by Joan La
Barbara (July 3, evening, Salle des Sports); meeting with the audience (July 4,
evening, Htel de Ville) (Cage 1976e; Cage/Dufallo 1989; Cond 1976; Gill, D.
1976; Harris, D. 1976a; Harris, D. 1976b; La Barbara 1977).
Prior to July 15, 1976. Chicago. Recipient, with 121
other composers, lyricists and performers, of the National Music Award.
The awards were inaugurated by the American Music Conference, sponsored by the
National Association of Music Merchants. Living recipients were honored at a
dinner presentation at the Conrad Hilton Hotel; Cages attendance uncertain.
July 27, 1976. New York. Attended court session as a result of which John Lennon received his green card; Cage had been active in supporting Lennons attempts to get a residence permit (Melody Maker 1980).
July 31-August 12, 1976. Aix en Provence. Ftes
Musicales de la Sainte-Baume-en-Provence, Musique & Silence, organized by
Jean-Luc Choplin. Participated. Meeting with Cage. Performance of a new [?]
composition and of Atlas Eclipticalis
(performed outdoors).
Early August 1976-1977. Wrote Writing through Finnegans Wake.
August 1976 or later. New York. Composed Quartets I-VIII [24 instruments]; first
performed 20 August 1977, Aptos, California, Cabrillo Music Festival.
September 11-12, 1976. Venezia, Biennale. HPSCHD performed, in a realization by
Josef Anton Riedl; Cage presumably not in attendance.
September 23, 1976. New York. Interviewed by Monika
Frst-Heidtmann (Frst-Heidtmann 1979, ix, 44n1).
September 30, and October 1, 2 and 5, 1976. Boston,
Massachusetts, Symphony Hall, Nico Castel (Sephardic Jew/singer), Jeanne Lee
(Negro slave/singer), Helen Schneyer (Protestant Puritan/hymn singer), Chief
Swift Eagle (American Indian/singer), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
(conductor), gave first performances of Renga
with Apartment House 1776 in shared
program with music by Gottfried Heinrich Stoelzel and Manuel de Falla (Dyer
1976; Fleming,
S. 1976; Johnson, Tom 1976b; Mayer, W. 1977; Schwartz, E. 1977; Slonimsky
1984, 398).
Around October 1976. New York, Carl Solway Gallery (139 Spring).
Exhibition of Not Wanting to Say Anything
about Marcel (Art News 1976).
October 8-9, 1976. Valencia, California Institute of
the Arts, School of Music, Modulor Theater, Two Evenings of New Music,
organized by Music West. With Morton Feldman and Lou Harrison attended
performances of his music performed by CalArts faculty/student soloists and
contemporary ensembles in program shared with music by James Fulkerson, Mel
Powell, Morton Feldman, Sylvano Bussotti, Elliott Carter, Dorrance Stalvey, and
Morton Subotnick: Double Music, First Construction (in Metal) (William
Kraft, conductor); Winter Music
(fifteen pianos) with Solo for Voice 45 from Song Books (Joan La Barbara) (Main Gallery) (Weber, W.
1976a).
October 16, 1976. Buffalo, New York, State University
of New York, Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Meet the Composer.
Performed with Maryanne Amacher.
October 23, 1976. New York, Town Hall (123 West 43rd
Street, afternoon). Performed from Part III of Empty Words; Grete Sultan performed Etudes Australes, nos. 1-11, nine of which were New York premieres
(Henahan 1976a; Horowitz 1976; Pavlakis 1976).
October 27, 1976. Buffalo, New York, State University
of New York, Center for Creative and Performing Arts, Meet the Composer.
Performed with Maryanne Amacher.
October 27, 1976. Boston, Massachusetts, Symphony
Hall, World Music Days 1976 of the International Society for Contemporary
Music. Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa, conductor, and the New England
Conservatory Chorus, Lorna Cooke DeVaron, conductor, performed Renga with Apartment House 1776 in shared program with music by Nikos
Mamangakis and Seymour Shifrin; Cages attendance uncertain (Carlin 1977;
Henahan 1976b).
November 4-9, 1976. New York, Lincoln Center, Avery
Fisher Concert Hall. Attended performances (at least on November 4) of Renga with Apartment House 1776 by Nico Castel (Sephardic singer), Jeanne Lee
(Negro singer), Helen Schneyer (Protestant hymn singer), Chief Swift Eagle
(American Indian singer), the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
conducting (November 4-6 and 9); following the November 4 performance, in Noel
Levines apartment, supper reception in Cages honor; gave pre-Philharmonic
Concert Lecture (November 5, morning, Meet the Composer) (Anderson, B.
1976-1977; Breuer 1976; Breuer 1977a; Breuer 1977b; Highwater 1976; Hughes, A.
1976; Music Journal 1977; Porter, A.
1976; Schwartz, E. 1977).
November 8-11, 1976. Nashville, Tennessee. Presumably participated with David Tudor and Merce Cunningham Dance Company in the performances for the TV-film Event for Television; performed Branches (Cunningham 1982b, 184; Vaughan 1997, 198-199).
November 17-20, 1976. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, University
of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Center for Twentieth-Century Studies, International
Symposium on Post-Modern Performance, organized by Michel Benamou. Attended;
participated in panel discussion with Jean-Franois Lyotard (Bacht 2003).
November 1976-January 1977. New York, Town Hall. In
benefit concert, performed from Writing
through Finnegans Wake or Writing for
the Second Time through Finnegans Wake (Anderson, B. 1976-1977).
November 11, 1976 or later. Performed Branches for TV-film (Cunningham 1982X,
184).
November 29, 1976. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard
University, Sanders Theatre (presented by Department of Music and Fromm Music
Foundation at Harvard), A Concert in Two Parts: participated in performance of A Lecture on the Weather, with Lyle
Davidson, Andrew Jerrison, Joel Kabakov, Peter Kelsey, Philipp Kelsey, Adam
Kremen, David Lyttle, William McLelland, Lycurgus Mitchell, David Patterson,
Michael Secter, Marc Wartenberg, speakers/vocalists; Maryanne Amacher and Ivan
Tcherepnin, mixing and equalization; Richard Leacock and Terry Lockhart,
projection.
December 14, 1976. New York. Interviewed by Ruth
Julius (Julius, Ru. 1978).
1976-1978. Wrote Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake (text).
1977. New York, Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition.
1977-1980. New York. Composed Freeman Etudes (I-XVI).
January 6-17, 1977. Tour to California.
January 13-14, 1977. Los Angeles, California, Los
Angeles Music Center, Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (135 North Grand Avenue).
Introduced and attended performance by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Zubin
Mehta, conductor; Helen Schneyer, soprano (Protestants); Chief Swift Eagle
(American Indians); Nico Castel (Sephardim, on tape); Jeanne Lee (Negro Slaves,
on tape) of Renga with Apartment House 1776 in shared program
with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Ludwig van Beethoven (performances on
January 13, 14, and 16) (Bernheimer 1977a; Bernheimer 1977b; Perlis
1977).
January 18-23, 1977. New York, Minskoff Theatre (Broadway and 45th Street). David Behrman, Joe Kubera, Joan La Barbara, and David Tudor performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company: Morton Feldman, Ixion to Summerspace (Kubera and Tudor, pianos); Child of Tree to Solo (Kubera); David Behrman, Voice with Melody-Driven Electronics to Rebus (voice: La Barbara); Cage, Telephones and Birds to Travelogue (first performances, Behrman, Kubera, and Tudor, using recordings by Norman Robinson, part of the Australian National Collection of Recorded Bird Calls, as well as telephone messages of the Rare Bird Alert Network, Horse Race Results, Sports News, Dial-A-Prayer, Dial-A-Money-saving-Tip, Dial-a-Plant, Weather, Time, Dial-A-Joke, Dial-Your-Stars, and Pan-American World Airways arrival and departure information) (January 18, 20 and 22); Maryanne Amacher, Remainder to Torse (Tudor); Third Week of January to Signals (Behrman, Kubera, and Tudor) (January 19, 21, and 23) (Barnes, C. 1977; Goldner 1977; Hello 1977; Herridge 1977; Kisselgoff 1977; Pierce, R.J. 1977).
January 19-February 4, 1977. Paris. Stayed, attended
opening of the Marcel Duchamp Retrospective Exhibition (January 31-May 2) at
the inauguration of the Centre Georges Pompidou; [performed, or interviewed by
Grard Cond?] (Cond 1977; Gotti 1979, 11).
January 22 ca.,
1977. Cologne, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Musik der Zeit: Neue Einfachheit. Klner
Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Lothar Zagrosek, director, performed Cheap Imitation (Koch, H. W. 1977;
Rohde, H. 1977; Schrmann 1977a).
February 22, 1977. New York, Brooklyn Academy of
Music, Lepercq Space, Meet the Moderns, New American Music. Brooklyn
Philharmonia, Lukas Foss, conductor, performed Quartets I-VIII for 24 instruments, I and II (first performance) in
shared program with music by Samuel Adler, Joel Chadabe, Morton Feldman, Tom
Johnson, and Michael Sahl (Rockwell 1977).
February 25-26, 1977. Iowa City, Iowa, University of
Iowa, Hancher Auditorium. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company performed; Cage
did not participate.
March 1, 1977. New York, Washington Square Church (135
West 4th Street), A Benefit Concert for Ear Magazine. Participated. Performed
music from Apartment House 1776 (on
piano) (Underhill 1977).
March 5, 1977. Letter by Tito Gotti to Cage (Gotti 1979).
March 6, 1977. Letter to Monika Frst-Heidtmann (Frst-Heidtmann 1979, 51n2, 179n2).
March 9-10, 1977. Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, Bucknell
University, Department of Music, New Music: Four Views (March 9-11, 1976-1977
Season, with Milton Babbitt, David Amram, and Roger Hannay), Kushell Music
Endowment. Lectures and discussions; performed with Grete Sultan; in
performance-discussion, conducted Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts (March
10, afternoon, Bucknell Hall); performed from Empty Words Part III; Sultan performed Etudes Australes [I-VIII and IX-XIII, XII and XIII first
performances] (March 10, evening, Vaughan Literature Auditorium) (Davis,
P. 1977; Fetterman 1996, 194-197; Stickel 1977).
March 15, 1977. Danbury, Connecticut, Western
Connecticut State College, Ives Auditorium, 20th-Century Arts Festival (March
14-17). Performed with Grete Sultan; informal question period with Robert
Alberetti, Richard Reimold, Kathleen McGrory, and James Furman, moderated by
Richard Moryl (afternoon); Sultan performed from Etudes Australes [I-VIII]; performed from Part III of Empty Words; Sultan performed from Etudes Australes [IX-XII] (evening) (Buoy
1977; Garrison 1977a; Garrison 1977b).
March 16-20, 1977. North Carolina. Sojourned.
March 29, 1977. Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar
College, Skinner Recital Hall, presented by the Dickinson-Kayden Fund of Vassar
College. Performed with Grete Sultan: from Empty
Words; from Etudes Australes
(Sultan).
March 17, 1977. Bangor, Maine. Performed? (Newall
1977).
mid-March 1977 (one week). New York, Barnard College
Gymnasium, sponsored by Dance Umbrella. Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed
Events; Cage participated in two of
them (Vaughan 1997, 202).
March 17, 1977. New York, Columbia University, Barnard
College. Cage performed with Joe Kubera: Branches
(ninety-minute peformance) (La Barbara 1977).
March 20, 1977. Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
University of North Carolina, Hill Hall, Fine Arts Festival (also presented by
the departments of Fine Arts). Performed from Part III of Empty Words, assisted by Jim Hackman, slide projector; Grete Sultan
performed Etudes Australes (I-VIII
and IX-XIII) (afternoon).
March 25-26, 1977. Syracuse, New York, Syracuse
University, presented by Society for New Music. Performed with Grete Sultan:
from Empty Words (part three); Sultan
performed from Etudes Australes
(I-VIII and IX-XIII) (March 25, evening, Crouse Auditorium); music by and
conversations with Cage (March 26, Grant Auditorium, afternoon).
March 29, 1977. Poughkeepsie, New York, Vassar
College, Skinner Recital Hall (presented by the Dickinson-Kayden Fund).
Performed from Part III of Empty Words;
Grete Sultan performed Etudes Australes
(I-VIII and IX-XIII); reception afterwards (Thekla Hall).
April 1977. Began macrobiotic diet (Rice 1978).
Prior to April 18, 1977. New York. Interviewed by
Suzanne Slesin and Ellen Stern (Slesin and Stern 1977).
April 1977. Witten, Wittener Tage fr neue
Kammermusik. Third Construction performed;
Cage not in attendance.
April 27, 1977 (8 pm). River Falls, Wisconsin,
University of Wisconsin, Kleinpell Fine Arts Building, Recital Hall, presented
by Fine Arts Festival and Music Department. Performed Cheap Imitation (first movement) as part of The Music of John Cage:
featuring performances of Music for Wind
Instruments, Credo in Us, Music for Marcel Duchamp, Nocturne, Water Music, Variations III,
as well as Quartet I from Quartets I, V
and VI for concert band and twelve amplified voices, first performance,
given by the University of Wisconsin - River Falls Chamber Band; Sandy
Cross, Colleen Devine, Kent Fenske, Carol Gillen, Steve Klemaier, Faith Long,
Daniel Masterman, Mike Miller, Lonny Palmer, Roxanne Stouffer, Mary Helen
Waldo, Mark Willink, voices; W. Larry Brentzel, conductor; reception in Cages
honor following the concert.
Prior to April 28, 1977. New York, Pleiades Gallery,
Time and Space Concepts in in Music and Visual Art. Participated in panel
discussion with Merce Cunningham, Richard Kostelanetz, and Nam June Paik,
moderated by Dore Ashton, introduced by Marilyn Belford (Cage et al./Ashton
1980).
May 4, 1977. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center. Attended
performance of Quartet I.
May 5, 1977. River Falls, Wisconsin. Attended
performance of Quartet I.
May 12, 1977. New York, Lincon Center. Attended Pierre
Boulezs farewell concert with the New York Philharmonic and reception
afterwards.
Late May-Early June 1977. Vienna, Festwochen. Merce
Cunningham Dance Company gave four repertory performances and an Event; Cages participation uncertain;
at this festival, also performance of The
Perilous Night to Hans van Manen, Twilight
(R.E. 1977; Vaughan 1997, 202).
July 16, 1977. Woodstock, New York, Hurley Woods Summer Music Festival, presented by the Creative Music Foundation. Attended; Ursula Oppens and Frederic Rzewski performed Winter Music; Rolf Schulte, violin, and Ursula Oppens performed Nocturne; Karen Haacke and Paul Dunkel performed Three Pieces for Flute Duet; Thomas Georgi, violon, and Julie Haines, piano, performed Six Melodies; Toby Tennenbaum, Joyce Rosen, Julie Haines, Alan Bern, Richard Kelly, and Frederic Rzewski, pianos, performed Concert for Piano and Orchestra, presented as Concert for Piano (3 pm); participated in Composers Colloquium with Michael Gibbs, Frederic Rzewski, Anthony Braxton, Garrett List, Karl Berger, Jimmy Giuffre, and others (5 pm); evening concert by Frederic Rzewski with music by Henry Cowell (with Rolf Schulte, violin), Christian Wolff, and Anthony Braxton as well as Michael Gibbs, conducting members of the Festival Orchestra in his own composition Canticle (Smith, Ar. J. 1977).
July 30, 1977. Letter to Monika Frst-Heidtmann (Cage/Anoynymous 1993a, 111; Frst-Heidtmann 1979, 195n1, 205n4).
Early August 1976-May 1977. New York. Assisted by Mary
Ann Spencer, wrote Writing through
Finnegans Wake.
August 17-28, 1977. Aptos, California, 15th Cabrillo
Music Festival (18-21 and 25-28; venues in Santa Cruz and San Juan Bautista;
the Festival Orchestra was an ad hoc ensemble made up of musicians from
Northern California and St. Paul, Dennis Russell Davies conducted). Attended as
guest composer; introduced Music for Wind
Instruments, Romuald Tecco (violin) and Dennis Russell Davies (piano)
performed Six Melodies in program
with Beethovens Octet Opus 16; Claude Debussy, sonata for Violin and Piano;
Keith Jarrett, Ritual (Davies alone)
(August 18, Santa Cruz, Villa Maria del Mar, East Cliff Drive, Prelude Concert);
Festival Orchestra, Gerhard Samuel, conductor, performed The Seasons as well as music by Antonio Vivaldi (Winter concert
from The Four Seasons, with Romuald
Tecco, violin), Gerhard Samuel (On a
Dream, viola and orchestra, Kenneth Harrison, viola), Ludwig van Beethoven
(Second Symphony) (August 19, evening, opening concert, Cabrillo College,
Auditorium/Theatre); Kenneth Harrison conducted performances of Double Music and Third Construction; Lou Harrison also in attendance (August 20,
afternoon, Santa Cruz, San Lorenzo Park); Janos Starker performed chamber music
with Dennis Russell Davies (piano): Beethoven, Sonata in g minor Opus 5, and
the debussy Sonata, as well as Mendelssohns Octet with the Festival Strings;
Emily Wong (piano), Roy Malan (violin) and the Festival Orchestra performed Lou
Harrison, Suite for Violin, Piano and Small Orchestra (August 20, evening,
Cabrillo College, Auditorium/Theatre); afternoon concert (August 21, Capitola,
St. Josephs Church); lecture (August 24, evening, Cabrillo College Forum, Room
450); introduced Cheap Imitation
(orchestral version for 24 instruments) in program shared with music by Erik
Satie, Socrate (Janis Hardy,
mezzo-soprano; Dennis Russell Davies, piano) and Cinma (Davies and Emily Wong, pianos) (August 25, 7th concert);
introduced first performance of Quartets
I-VIII [for 41 instruments, selection] by the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra
in program shared with music by Johanna Beyer, Conlon Nancarrow, Colin McPhee,
and Peter Garland; Dennis Russell Davies, conductor (August 27, [10th concert],
Only the Lonely: Music of the Experimental Tradition, Cabrillo College
Theatre); interviewed by Paul S. Hersh (August 17, Cabrillo College), Roger
Reynolds (August 28), and previously by Gail Tagashira (Akers 1977a; Akers
1977b; Andrews, M. 1977a; Andrews, M. 1977b; Andrews, M. 1977c; Arthur
1977; Benson, Jack 1977a; Benson, Jack 1977b; Benson, Jack
1977c;
Benson, Jack 1977d; Cage/Hersh 1977; Cage/Reynolds 1979; Cariaga 1977; Cheever
1977; Commanday
1977a; Commanday 1977b; Downham 1977; Pollock 1977a; Pollock 1977b; Shere
1977; Tagashira 1977; Tucker, M. 1977).
Late August 1977. Kassel, Musik und Documenta 77.
Josef Anton Riedl, Musikalisches Environment, with Dieter Schnebel and
Mnchner Arbeitsgemeinschaft Neue Musik I, II, and III participating with music
by Cage and others; S.E.M. Ensemble and Petr Kotik, conductor, performed Atlas Eclipticalis; Cage not in
attendance (Polaczek 1977; Schreiber, W. 1977a; Schreiber, W. 1977b).
September 1977 or earlier. Fort Lauderdale, Miami,
Broward Community College, Lecture Hall. During two-day residence, rehearsed Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts
with students; next day performed from Part III of Empty Words and Music for
Marcel Duchamp (Spitzer 1977).
September 1977. Seattle, Washington. Composed Inlets.
August 22-September 11, 1977. Seattle, Washington,
presented by Cornish Institute of Allied Arts (710 East Roy), Melvin Strauss,
director. Residency of Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (Cage arrived later,
perhaps only in early September), with related exhibition of sets and costumes
designed by Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol
(Foster-White Gallery): Stuart Dempster, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company performed Event
#193 (September 2, Tacoma, Washington, Pacific Lutheran University,
Eastvold Auditorium, without Cage) and Event
#194 (September 3, Seattle Center Arena, Bumbershoot Festival, without
Cage); performed Dialogue (with
readings from Empty Words, Part III)
with Merce Cunningham (September 6, 8 pm, Cornish Theater); introduced and
performed with Stuart Dempster, Martin Friedmann, Eric Jensen, Jim Knapp, David
Mahler, Marni Nixon, Patrick Pursewell, Lowell Roddenberry, Melvin Strauss at
concert with his music: program included Aria
with Fontana Mix (Nixon), Dream (arrangement for violin and piano,
Roddenberry, Friedmann), Imaginary
Landscape No. 4 (Strauss, conductor), Cartridge
Music, Music for Marcel Duchamp
(Roddenberry, according to other reviews Cage), Solo for Trombone from Concert for Piano and Orchestra
(Dempster), excerpts from Sonatas and
Interludes (Roddenberry) (September 8, 7, 8:30 and 10 pm, Cornish Theater);
performed with Stuart Dempster, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor and Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company: Morton Feldman, Ixion to Summerspace
(with Tudor); Child of Tree to Solo (alone); Toneburst to Sounddance
(Tudor alone); Telephones and Birds
to Travelogue (with Kosugi and Tudor)
(September 9, University of Washington, Meany Hall); Maryanne Amacher, Remainder to Torse (tape?); Second Week of
September to Signals (with Kosugi
and Tudor); first (dance?) performance of Inlets
to Inlets (with Stuart Dempster, set
design by Morris Graves); Takehisa Kosugi, S.E.
Wave/E.W. Song to Squaregame
(with Kosugi and Tudor) (September 10, University of Washington, Meany Hall);
gala reception afterwards; Cunningham received Cornish Institutes first
honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts (Henry Gallery); interviewed by Melinda
Bargreen; Cunningham interviewed by Carole Beers (Aloff 1977; Alpert,
Bill 1977a; Alpert, Bill 1977b; Alpert, Bill 1977c; Alpert, Bill 1977d; Alpert,
Bill 1977e; Anderton 1977; Arts 1977;
Bargreen 1977a; Bargreen 1977b; Bargreen 1977c; Beach 1977a; Beach 1977b; Beers
1977a; Beers 1977b; Beers 1977c; Beers 1977d; Benowitz 1977; Burley 1977; Campbell,
R. M. 1977a; Campbell, R. M. 1977b; Campbell, R. M. 1977c; Campbell, R. M.
1977d; Downey 1977a; Downey 1977b; Everett
Herald 1977; First Bank News
1977; Hamilton, V. 1977; Hawthorn 1977a; Hawthorn 1977b; M. C. G. 1977; Seattle Business 1977; Seattle Times 1977; Strauss, M./Brown
1977; Vaughan 1997, 202-203, 297).
September 29, 1977. Toronto, Ontario, Ontario College
of Art (100 McCaul Street), Nora E. Vaughan Auditorium, Ontario College of Art
International Lecture Series (evening). Performed Mureau; Udo Kasemets initiated a series of seminars, workshops, and
electronic concerts in honor of Cages 65th birthday around Cages performance;
Bird Cage presented in Courtyard
(September 29, 12 noon andf 4 pm).
October 1, 1977. Toronto, Music Gallery, New Music
Concerts, Seventh Season, third annual International Music Day. Performed
excerpts from Apartment House 1776,
taped by Peter Anson and played back on sixteen tracks afterwards (afternoon);
attended 65th Birthday Party Concert of his music: Amores, Atlas Eclipticalis
with Winter Music and Cartridge Music, Five Songs for Contralto, Score
(40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts, Song
Books, The Wonderful Widow of
Eighteen Springs (evening, University of Toronto, Edward Johnson Building,
Walter Hall); presumably during this visit interviewed by Dorothy DeVal (Culver
1978; DeVal 1978; Rapoport 1977).
October 4, 1977. Chicago, Illinois, Museum of
Contemporary Art. Performed Writing for
the Second Time through Finnegans Wakem (possibly first performance);
question period; interviewed by Art Lange (Cage/Lange 1978; Lange 1977a; Lange
1977b).
Prior to October 6, 1977. Composed 49
Waltzes for the Five Boroughs (second version).
October 7, 1977. Hartford, Connecticut, Real Art Ways. Performed from Empty Words (announced as first performance, perhaps of Part III) (8:30 pm); at 11 pm, gave talk at the Hartford Art School; at 7:30, a half-hour program on Cage was broadcast on CPTV (Gordon, E. 1977).
October 8, 1977. New York, Carnegie Recital Hall.
Attended recital of Seymour Barab; program included 1'18" for a String Player.
October 4-16, 1977. Nanterre, Maison de la Culture,
Thtre des Amandiers. Residency of Merce Cunningham and Dance Company; Child of Tree performed; Cages
participation uncertain (Vaughan 1997, 203).
November 2, 1977. New York, Carnegie Hall. Center of the Creative and Performing Arts performed Credo in Us in shared program with music by Morton Feldman, Lejaren Hiller, and Giacinto Scelsi (Hughes, A. 1977).
November 4, 1977. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan
University, Center for the Arts, Crowell Concert Hall, Crowell Concert Series.
Paul Zukofsky performed with Grete Sultan: from Etudes Australes (I-VIII, IX-XVI; XIV, XV, and XVI first
performances, Sultan); first performance of Cheap
Imitation (violin, Zukofsky).
November 4, 1977. New York, New School for Social Research. Center of the Creative and Performing Arts performed Credo in Us in shared program with music by Robert Dick, Christian Wolff, Howard Skempton, Jacob Druckman, John Newell, and Giacinto Scelsi (Johnson, Tom 1977).
November 7, 1977. Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Grande Salle, Passage du XXe sicle, IIe partie. Ensemble Intercontemporain, Jacques Mercier, conductor, performed Atlas Eclipticalis, as well as music by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Iannis Xenakis; Cage presumably not in attendance.
November 21, 1977. Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern
University, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall. Contemporary Music Ensemble: Adrienne
Arlen, Marion Brandis, flutes; Larry Mazur, oboe; Deborah Campana, Tom
Parchman, clarinets; Jan Walker, saxophone; Kathryn Henniss, Charles Key,
trumpets; Mitchell Arnold, Steven Bradley, trombones; John Miller, electric
bass; Christopher Severin, Lawrence Shanker, pianos; Sue Neely, Steve Elkins,
percussion; Kyle Gann, Robert Moran, Tim Zimmerman, conductors, gave first
performance of 49 Waltzes for the Five
Boroughs in shared program with music by Robert Moran, Arne Mellns, Zoltan
Jeney, and Christian Wolff.
November 22, 1977. New York. Composed 49
Waltzes for the Five Boroughs (first version).
November 27, 1977. Washington, D.C., Two Nights of New Music (November 25-27). Gave workshop announced as "Silence," in program with Dave Holland, Leo Smith, Phillip Wilson, Anthony Braxton (afternoon, WPA, 1227 G Street, NW); performed in program shared with Steve Reich and Musicians, World Saxophone Quartet, and Anthony Braxton Quartet (evening, DAR Constitution Hall).
Late November or early December 1977. Paris, Centre Georges Pompidou, Grande Salle, Passage du XXe sicle, IIe partie. Presented by Gerald Bennett, Jrg Wyttenbach, piano, and Siegfried Kutterer, percussion, performed Variations V, as well as music by Vinko Globokar and Mauricio Kagel; Cage possibly in attendance.
November 29-December 3, 1977. Milan, organized by
Radio Canale 96 and Consorzio di Communicazione Sonora. Performed part III of Empty Words and Branches (assisted by John Fullemann) (December 2, Teatro Lirico);
gave press conference in conjunction with the presentation of the book Per gli uccelli (Cage/Charles 1976/1977)
and of the record Cramps CRSLP 6117 and was interviewed previously by Enzo
Beacco, Gianluigi Degli Esposti, Giovanni Giovannetti, Ettore Mo, Paolo
Petazzi, and Massimo Villa (November 29) (Amati and Giorgio 1977; Beacco
1977; Cage/Barnard
1980, 19-20; Cage/Beacco 1977; Cage/Degli Esposti 1977; Cage/Mo 1977;
Cage/Petazzi 1977; Cage/Villa 1977; Calasso 1977; Ciao 2001 1977; Courir 1977; DAmico, F.
1977; DAmico 1978; D.S. 1977; Giovannetti 1977; Guerriero 1977; Intrepido 1977; Leidi 1977; Manifesto 1977; Pellicciotti 1981; Petazzi
1977; Polillo 1977; Villa 1978).
Prior to December 11, 1977. Bologna. Prepared Alla rircerca del silenzio perduto; gave
press conference with Mino Bertoldo and Juan Hidalgo (Out-Off [via Montesano]);
interviewed by Berenice and LUnit
(Berenice 1977; Cage/Anonymous 1977).
December 1977. New York. Conceived Alla rircerca del silenzio perduto.
December 6, 1977. Cologne. Interviewed by Ted Sznt (Cage/Sznt 1978).
December 1977 [and 1978]. Cologne. Conceived Sounday (Benoist 1978, [82]-[83]).
December 7-10, 1977. Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn
College Student Center (Campus Road and East 27th Street), organized by the
Institute for Studies in American Music, The Phonograph and Our Musical
Life.
Charles Hamm, H. Wiley Hitchcock and others gave first performance of Address with Cassette (December 7, Whitman Auditorium); Cage not in attendance
(Hamm et al. 1980; Rushefsky 1977a; Rushefsky 1977b).
December 9, 1977. Bonn, Beethovenhalle, Musik der Zeit
II, Begegungen mit Traditionen (December 9-11). Attended and introduced
(presumably) first performance of Quartets
I-VIII for 93 instruments given by the Klner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester,
Hiroshi Wakasugi, conductor (Bach, H.-E. 1977; Burde 1978; Diederichs-Lafite 1978; Kirchberg 1977;
Nyffeler 1977; Schreiber, W. 1977c; Schrmann 1977b; Schultz, G. 1977).
December 15-17, 1977. Cleveland, Ohio, Severance Hall.
Cleveland Orchestra (sixtieth season); Matthias Bamert, conductor; Helen
Bonchek Schneyer (Protestants), Nico Castel (Spehardim, on tape), Chief Swift
Eagle (American Indians, on tape), Jeanne Lee (Negro Slaves) performed Renga with Apartment House 1776; it is uncertain whether Cage was in
attendance.
December 17, 1977. Hildesheim, PH, 3. Sonderveranstaltung des Faches Musik und auditive Kommunikation. Simone Rist performed Song Books, songs by Erik Satie, Eva Roscher accompanying on piano, phonetic compositions, and her own music (Euen 1977).
December 21-22, 1977. New York, Kitchen. Performed Branches; Grete Sultan gave first (New
York?) performance of Etudes Australes
[I-XVI] (December 21); Paul Zukofsky performed Cheap Imitation [violin]; with Takehisa Kosugi, Garrett List (blown
conch shell) and David Tudor performed Inlets
(December 22) (Blechner 1977; High
Fidelity 1978; Johnson, Tom 1978b; Palmer, R. 1977).
1977 or 1978. Made [untitled] cover drawing for Sounday program.
1978. New York. Composed Etudes Boreales.
1978. San Francisco, California, San Francisco Art
Institute: exhibition.
January 1-7, 1978. Oakland, California, Crown Point Press. Invited by Kathan Brown, began sessions of printmaking; began Score without Parts (40 Drawings by Thoreau): Twelve Haiku and Seven-Day Diary (Not Knowing) (January 2-7); interviewed by Robin White (Brown, Ka. 1980, [7]; Cage/White, R. 1978; DHarnoncourt 1982, 60).
January 1978. New York, Franklin Furnace. Performed
[lecture] (Cage/White, R. 1978, 8).
January or February 1978. Revised Variations VIII.
January 13, 1978. Schenectady, New York, Union
College, presented by American Composers Forum. Gave afternoon seminar (Union
College Fine Arts Building), rehearsed with musicians, and attended evening
concert (Memorial Chapel): Carole Friedman (piano), David Bittner, Peter
Sheehan, Leonard Tobler (percussion) performed Amores; Julie Kabat (soprano) performed Aria with Fontana Mix;
Friedman performed Bacchanale and Concert for Piano and Orchestra (with
Lois Fishman, Linda Hanley, Natalie Kriegler, violins; Lilajane Frascarelli,
Ernest Horvath, violas; Elsbeth Merriam, violoncello; Allan Dennis, contrabass;
Irvin Gilman, flute; Charles Stancampiano, clarinet; Richard Sleeper, bassoon
and baritone saxophone; Henry Carr, trumpet; Ron Partch, trombone; Walter Gregory,
tuba; David Gibson, conductor); question period; performed Child of Tree (Allison and Denison 1978; Almasi 1978; Rice 1978a;
Rice 1978b; Kelly, R. 1978; Trump 1977; Trump 1978; Uttley 1978).
February 9, 1978. Letter to Monika Frst-Heidtmann (Frst-Heidtmann 1979, 40n1, 120n1).
February 11, 1978. Tampa, Florida, University of South Florida. Performed with Grete Sultan and Paul Zukofsky: Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake (afternoon); evening concert by Sultan from Etudes Australes and Zukofsky, Cheap Imitation [violin] attended by Cage (Theater); interviewed by Bruce Jones previously (Jones, B. 1978).
February 26, 1978. Boston, Massachusetts, Boston
English High School. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company perfomed (Jon Gibson, Equal Distribution to Fractions and other pieces); Cages
participation uncertain.
March 1978. Oakland, California, Crown Point Press.
Second visit; made working sketch for Seventeen
Drawings by Thoreau (March 9); interviewed by Robin White (Cage/White, R.
1978).
March 14-19, 1978 and March 21-26, 1978. New York,
Roundabout Theater, Stage One (333 West 23rd Street). Performed incidentally
with David Behrman, Jon Gibson, Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, Meredith Monk,
David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company: Events; with Demetrio Stratos performed Sixty-two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham to Event 209 (March 18) and Event
210 (March 19) (Anderson, Jack 1978; New Yorker 1978; Vaughan 1997, 204).
March 14-April 8, 1978 (Opening March 16). New York, Carl Solway
Gallery (139 Spring Street). One-person exhibition, Etchings & Worksheets
(Ashbery 1978; Frank, P. 1978).
March 20, 1978. New York. Read 36 Mesostics re and not re Duchamp and interviewed by Richard Kostelanetz for films by Jaime Davidovich and Steve Lawrence.
March 20, 1978. Los Angeles, California, Bing Theater, Monday Evening Concerts. Richard Bunger performed Ad Lib, Ophelia, Primitive (first performance?), and Spontaneous Earth, in shared program with music by Elliott Carter and Dorrance Stalvey (Guzelimian 1978).
Spring 1978 or earlier. Saint Peter, Minnesota, Gustavus Adolphus College (800 West College Avenue). Performed Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake.
April 5-May 1978. Ensemble Musica Negativa (Rainer
Riehn, director, with guest musician Ursula Ubbelohde) toured with travelling
exhibition of artworks and scores by Cage (including and Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel and Seven-Day Diary: Not Knowing); they performed Variations VIII (Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Rainer Riehn, Wilhelm
Schulz), Credo in Us, Fontana Mix with Concert for Piano and Orchestra and Song Books, Living Room Music,
Music for Marcel Duchamp, Music Walk, Water Music; stations included Cologne, Klnischer Kunstverein
(Josef Haubrich-Hof 1) (April 5-7; April 6, evening, public rehearsal; April 7,
evening, first performance of Variations
VIII, revised version); Dortmund, Museum am Ostwall (Ostwall 7) (April
9-11, concert April 9, evening); Frankfurt am Main, Hessischer
Rundfunk/Stdelsches Kunstinstitut (April 14-16); Bochum, Museum Bochum
(Kortumstrae 147) (April 19-21, concert April 21, evening); Mnchengladbach,
Stdtisches Museum Abteiberg (Bismarckstrae 97) (April 23-25, concert April
23, evening); Heidelberg, Heidelberger Kunstverein (April 28-30); Mannheim
(early May); Essen, Museum Folkwang (Bismarckstrae 64-68) (May 10-13, concert
May 10, evening); Saarbrcken, Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts (May, exhibition in
Saarbrcker Sender, Foyer) (Anonymous 1978c; Bach, H. E. 1978; Herbort 1978;
Metzger, H.-K. 1979a; Metzger,
H.-K. and Riehn 1978a; Nyffeler 1978a; Nyffeler 1978b; Polaczek 1978b;
Schmidt, K. 1978; Schn 1978a; Schn 1978b; Schreiber, W. 1978b; Schreiber, W.
1978d).
Prior to April 10, 1978. New York. Composed A Dip in the Lake.
April 10, 1978 (evening). New York, New York
University, Loeb Student Center, Eisner & Lubin Auditorium (566 LaGuardia
Place), presented by the New Music Showcase of the New York University Program
Board, Benefit Concert for Harvestworks Inc. and Public Access Synthesizer Studio.
Performed with David Tudor; gave first performance of A Dip in the Lake (voice and four microphones); what Tudor
performed is unknown (Johnson, Tom 1978a; Lindahl 1978).
April 17-20, 1978. Wichita, Kansas, Wichita State University, College of Fine Arts. Residency; open rehearsals; percussion ensemble concert (April 17, evening, Miller Concert Hall); lectured, presumably from Empty Words (April 18, morning); reception (April 18, evening, Ulrich Museum of Art); meeting with students (April 19, morning); conducted Wichita State University Symphony Orchestra in Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music; Symphonic Band and Singers, David Catron, conductor, performed Quartets I, V and VI; University Chamber Orchestra performed Etcetera (April 20, evening, Miller Concert Hall); exhibition The Art of John Cage (April 17-20, Ulrich Museum of Art); introductory lectures by Richard Kostelanetz previously; interviewed by L. David Harris previously (Evangelisti, D. 1978; Harris, L.D. 1978).
April 24, 1978 (two performances, 7 and 9:30 pm). New
York, Whitney Museum of American Art (Madison Avenue at 75th Street), A John
Cage Concert, presented by Composers Showcase in honor of Cages 65th birthday.
Introduced performances of Grete Sultan (Etudes
Australes I-VIII) and Paul Zukofsky (Freeman
Etudes I-VIII, first performance) (Henahan 1978).
May 1-4, 1978. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art
Center (Vineland Place). Five-day residency. Read Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake (April 1,
evening, Auditorium); attended rehearsals and performance of Quartets I-VIII for 24 players and Score (40 Drawings by Thoreau) and 23 Parts by
the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra (April 3, evening, Auditorium); films by Cage
and Nam June Paik, WGBH-TV and
Shigeko Kubota, Marcel Duchamp and
John Cage shown (April 4, evening, Auditorium); exhibition of
graphic works from the Art Center collection in conjunction with the residency
(Close 1978).
May 3, 1978. Elected Fellow of the American Academy of
Arts and Sciences (Academia Artium et Scientiarum Americana).
May 5?, 1978. Milan. Performed with Merce Cunningham,
presumably Cheap Imitation to Second Hand, and exhibition (Mo 1978b).
May 6-7, 1978. Milan. Wrote Letters to Erik Satie.
Presumably May 1978. Milan, I Pomeriggi Musicali di
Milano. First performance of Audiovisual Events, John Cage/Josef Anton Riedl.
May 8-19, 1978. Paris, American Center for Students
and Artists (261 Boulevard Raspail), Spring Festival = Festival de printemps
(April 24-June 10), Judith F. Pisar, director. Preceded by Merce Cunningham
(April 24-May 5), assisted by John Fullemann, conducted workshop to sixteen
music students on "Composition et improvisation structurelles," using
Branches, Child of Tree, and presumably Inlets
(May 8-19); performed Dialogue with
Cunningham, using Child of Tree and Letters to Erik Satie in the way of Song Books, Solo for Voice 43 (May 8,
eighty minutes); interviewed by Elmer Schnberger (May 18); "rencontre
avec John Cage" (May 18, evening); results of workshop presented as
two-hour performance of Branches,
partly in the garden of the Center, Cage conducting (May 19); interviewed by
Pierre Job previously, in New York, and by Pierre Lartigue; simultaneously a
four-day session of contemporary American music took place at the Lucernaire
Forum with Jolle Landre performing The
Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs and music by Tom Johnson (Backalm
1978; Cage/Job 1978; Cage/Lartigue 1978; Cage/Schnberger 1978; Canal 1978; Cond 1978; Doucelin 1978; Ferrer
1978; Lartigue 1978; Michel 1978; Rodet 1978; Samuel 1978; Stevens,
D. 1978).
May 20, 1978. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Charles River,
14th Annual New York Avant Garde Festival/2nd Cambridge River Festival.
Participated.
May 31, 1978, Saint
Paul, Minnesota. The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies
(conductor) gave first complete performance of Quartets I-VIII [24 instruments] (Anonymous 1979TITLE/PETERS).
June 1-2, 1978. Chicago, Illinois, Orchestra Hall. Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Henry Mazer conducting, with Chief Swift Eagle, performed Renga with Apartment House 1776, in shared program with music by Karlins and Berio (Sinfonia); Cage in attendance on June 1 and presumably on June 2 as well (Lange 1978; Marsh 1978; Von Rhein 1978a; Von Rhein 1978b). Hereafter only commission performances of Renga with Apartment House 1776 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
June 7-15, 1978 (interrupted by June 12-13
performances in London). Amsterdam: co-ordinated first performance of Sounday; press conference (June 8,
Stedelijk Museum); public rehearsal (June 11, afternoon, Stedelijk Museum);
first performance, given by Peter
Barkema, conch shell; Trille Bedarrides, Michelle Blaauw, Petra Branderhorst,
Johan Dronkers, Willem Hering, Hans Reehuis, Annette van Wijck, Frank van Wijk,
Nancy de Wilde, amplified plant materials, shells; Grete Sultan, piano; Paul
Zukofsky, violin; Demetrio Stratos, voice; John David Fullemann, electronics;
co-ordinated by Cage; including Branches,
Child of Tree, Etudes Australes, Freeman
Etudes, Inlets, Pools, Sixty-two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham (June 15, Theater Bellevue,
broadcast live on KRO Dutch Catholic Radio from 7 am until 5 pm) (Barkema and
Blaauw 1978; Benoist 1978; Cage/Schnberger 1978; Delden 1978b; Houten 1978a;
Houten 1978b; Jansen 1978; Parool 1978;
Post
1978; Potter, K. 1978; Rossum 1978; Rossum 1982, 17; Samama 1978; Studio 1978; Sznt 1978; Weiland and
Tempelaars 1982, 101).
June 12-13, 1978 (arrived June 11, evening, stayed with Bonnie Bird). London. Lectured on music and dance (June 12, Goldsmiths College); performed from Part III (according to K. Potter Part II) of Empty Words (June 13, National Theatre Building, Lyttelton Theatre); Grete Sultan and Paul Zukofsky performed from Etudes Australes (Sultan, I-XVI); Cheap Imitation (violin, Zukofsky) (June 13, Queen Elizabeth Hall, presented by London Musical Digest) (Cage/Raymond and Roberts 1980, 4; Cole 1978; Potter, K. 1978; Roberts, D. 1978; Schiffer 1978).
June 17, 1978. Genve, Cit Universitaire, Salle Simon I. Patio (26, Avenue de Miremont), presented by Centre dArt Contemporain, Contrechamps and Kh Basel. Performed with Grete Sultan and Paul Zukofsky: according to annoucement Cage at 6:30 pm, Sultan and Zukofsky at 8:30 pm (Cage 1979c, 3).
June 19-20, 1978. Basle. Performed with Grete Sultan and Paul Zukofsky: from Empty Words Part III (June 19, afternoon, Kunsthalle); Sultan performed from Etudes Australes, Zukofsky from Freeman Etudes (June 20, evening, Musik-Akademie, Grosser Saal) (Cage 1979c, 3; J.Mr. 1978).
June 22, 1978. Munich, Amerika-Haus (Karolinen-Platz
3), presented by Neue Musik Mnchen. Hosted by Dieter Schnebel, performed with
Grete Sultan and Paul Zukofsky: from Empty
Words (part III); from Etudes
Australes (IX-XVI, Sultan); from Freeman
Etudes (I-VIII, Zukofsky); interviewed by Thomas Veszelits previously (Schreiber, W. 1978a; Veszelits 1978).
June 26-30, 1978. Bologna, Feste Musicali dEstate a
Bologna (June 26-July 5), organized by Tito Gotti of the Teatro Comunale di
Bologna. Attended: Alla ricerca del
silenzio perduto, presented as Il treno di John Cage (June 26-28), three
excursions on a prepared train
(involving 210 audiotapes by Juan Hidalgo and Walter Marchetti, with technical
assistance by Oderso Rubini; instrumental, vocal, and theatrical contributions
by Gianfranco Baruchello, Carlo Capelli, Massimo Coen, Esther Ferrer, Gian
Felice Fugazza, Luigi Lanzillotta, Marcello Panni, Cristiano Rossi, Marco
Scano, Demetrio Stratos, Enrico Visani, Augusto Vismara, Giorgio Zagnoni),
co-ordinated by Juan Hildalgo and Walter Marchetti: Bologna Centrale Piazzale
Ovest-Riola-Porretta Terme-Riola-Bologna Centrale Piazzale Ovest (June 26,
evening); Bologna Centrale Piazzale Est-Lugo-Ravenna-Lugo-Bologna Centrale
Piazzale Est (June 27, evening); Ravenna-Bellaria-Rimini-Bellaria-Ravenna (June
28, evening); Paul Zukofsky performed Cheap
Imitation (violin) and Freeman Etudes
(I-VIII); Grete Sultan performed from Etudes
Australes (I-VIII or from Book II) (June 30, Chiostro di San Vittore [Via
San Vittore, 40]); interviewed previously by Adriano Cavicchi and S.K. (A.
J. 1978; Barber, Ll. 1978b; Cage 1979a; Cage 1979q; Cavicchi 1978a; Cavicchi
1978b;
Cavicchi 1978c; Cavicchi 1978d; Charles 1978a; Cogno
1978a;
Cogno 1978b; Corriere della Sera
1978; Enriquez 1978; Farabet 1978; Ferrari, A. 1978a; Ferrari,
A. 1978b; G. Z. 1978; Gentilucci 1978; Giornale 1978; Gotti 1979; I. 1978; I. M. 1978;
M. Gu. 1978; Marozzi 1978a; Marozzi 1978b; Mo 1978a; Mo 1978b; Monastra
1979; Monastra 1980-1981; Resto
del Carlino 1978; S.K. 1978; Saracino 1978; Simoni 1978; Tura 1978a;
Tura 1978b; Unit 1978; Ventura
1978a; Ventura 1978b).
Around June 28, 1978 [or May 5?]. Milan. Gave concert?
(Villa 1978).
After June 28, 1978. Rome, Villa Medici, Garden.
Attended performances by Grete Sultan (from Etudes
Australes) and Paul Zukofsky (Freeman
Etudes) (Lichtenfeld 1978).
July 1, 1978. Kempfenhausen near Munich, Dany Keller
Galerie (Starnberger See, Ostufer, Seebreite 3), presented by Neue Musik
Mnchen (in conjunction with exhibition with scores, plexigrams, manuscripts,
etchings [June 23-July 28], films, concerts). Performed from Empty Words (part III); question period
afterwards (Achternbusch 1990, [16]-17]; Gronemeyer 1981-1982, 219, 221;
Schreiber, W. 1978a; Seidenfaden
1978; Zimmermann, I. 1978a; Zimmermann, I. 1978b).
July 4, 1978. Genoa, Teatro Margherita, presented by the Ente Autonomo del Teatro Comunale dellOpera di Genova. Grete Sultan performed from Etudes Australes; Paul Zukofsky performed from Freeman Etudes; Demetrio Stratos performed Sixty-two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham; Cage in attendance and interviewed by Viana Conti (Conti 1978).
Prior to July 6, 1978. Rome. Interviewed by Pietro Acquafredda (Cage/Acquafredda 1978).
August 6, 1978. Saint-Maximin-la Sainte Baume.
Interviewed by Christian Tarting and Andr Jaume (Cage/Tarting and Jaume 1980).
August 17-19,
1978. Toronto, Ontario, Royal Alexandra Theatre. Performed with Martin Kalve
(presumably), Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham and Dance
Company: Ixion to Summerspace (with Tudor); David
Behrman, Voice with Melody-Driven
Electronics to Rebus; Takehisa Kosugi, S.E. Wave/E.W. Song to Squaregame
(August 17); Cartridge Music to Exercise Piece II, as part
of Changing Steps Et Cetera (August
18) (Godfrey 1978).
August 22-27, 1978. Highland Park, Illinois, Murray Theatre, Ravinia Festival 78, Festival of American Dance. Performed with Jon Gibson, Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company: Cartridge Music to Changing Steps Etcetera (Cage, Kalve, and Tudor); Child of Tree to Solo (Cage); Jon Gibson, Equal Distribution to Fractions; Tudor, Toneburst to Sounddance (Tudor) (August 22, 24, and 26); Fourth Week of August to Signals (Cage, Kalve, and Tudor); Maryanne Amacher, Remainder to Torse (tape?); Kosugi, S.E.Wave/E.W. Song to Squaregame (Cage, Kalve, Kosugi, Tudor); Tudor, Rainforest to Rainforest (August 23, 25, and 27).
August 28-September 10, 1978. Oakland, California,
Crown Point Press. Third visit. Made Signals;
presumably completed Seventeen Drawings
by Thoreau (Brown, Ka. 1982c).
September 18-22, 1978 (evenings). Paris, Thtre de lAthne, Musique-Athne, John Cage Paris. Attended and performed; Demetrio Stratos performed Sixty-two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham, Grard Frmy, Sonatas and Interludes (September 17); Grete Sultan performed from Etudes Australes (I, VIII, IX, XVI, September 19); conducted Atlas Eclipticalis performed by Musique Vivante (September 20); Zukofsky performed from Freeman Etudes (I and VIII), Chorals (first performance), Cheap Imitation (violin) (September 21); performed (from) Empty Words (part III) (September 22).
September 26-October 8, 1978. New York, City Center
Dance Theatre (131 West 55th Street). Performed with Jon Gibson, Martin Kalve,
Garrett List, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company: Branches to Solo; first performance (presumably) of Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds
Anonymously Received to Tango
(October 5); Telephones and Birds to Travelogue and others; Jon Gibson, Equal Distribution to Fractions (Gibson); Letter to Erik Satie with Sound
Anonymously Received to Tango
(Cage); Inlets (Cage, Kalve, List,
Tudor); Telephones and Birds to Travelogue (Cage, Kalve, Tudor) (October
8, matinee); PROGRAMS: Summerspace, Sounddance,
Inlets, Squaregame (September 26, evening); Torse I, Exchange, Squaregame (September 27, evening); Torse II, Inlets, Travelogue
(September 28, evening); Summerspace, Solo, Inlets,
Sounddance (September 29, evening); RainForest, Rebus, Cartridge Music to
Exercise Piece I (new production), as
part of Changing Steps Et Cetera
(September 30, matinee); Summerspace,
Signals, Exchange (September 30, evening); Torse III, Signals, Exchange (October 1, matinee); RainForest, Fractions, Travelogue
(October 3, evening); Rune, Inlets, Travelogue (October 4, evening); Fractions, Letter to Erik
Satie with Sounds Anonymously
Received to Tango, Sounddance, Squaregame (October 5, evening); Fractions, Sounddance, Travelogue (October 6, evening); Rune, Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds
Anonymously Received to Tango, Signals, Changing Steps Et Cetera (October 7, matinee); RainForest, Exchange, Changing Steps Et Cetera (October 7,
evening); Fractions, Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds Anonymously Received to Tango, Inlets, Travelogue
(October 8, matinee) (Mandell 1978; Vaughan 1997, 206, 297).
October 12, 1978 (evening). Buffalo, New York, State
University of New York, Woldman Theatre, 112 Norton Hall, Amherst Campus,
symposium The University and the Arts: Are They Compatible?, presented by the
Office of Cultural Affairs. Participated in panel with Robert Buck, Robert
Creeley, Merce Cunningham and Morton Feldman, moderated by Esther Swartz (Howe
1978; Reporter 1978).
October 27-30, 1978. Berkeley, California. Completed
no. 3 (October 27), no. 4
(October 28); no. 5 (October 29); nos. 1 and 2 (October 30) of Some of The Harmony of Maine and revised nos. 1, 2, and 3.
November 1-2, 1978.
Boulder, Colorado. Completed no. 7 (November 1) and no. 9 (November 2) of Some of The Harmony of Maine.
November 3-5, 1978. Greensboro, North Carolina. Completed no. 10 (November 3), no. 11 (November
4) and no. 12 (November 5) of Some of
The Harmony of Maine.
November 4, 1978. Greensboro, North Carolina,
University of North Carolina, Aycock Auditorium, University Concert/Lecture
Series, Fall Festival of Dance, in collaboration with the High Point Theatre
and Exhibition Center. Performed with Martin Kalve (1951), Takehisa Kosugi,
David Tudor and Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Jon Gibson, Equal Distribution to Fractions (Kalve alone), David Tudor, Toneburst to Sounddance (Tudor alone), Takehisa Kosugi, S.E. Wave/E.W. Song to Squaregame
(Cage, Kalve, Kosugi, Tudor).
November 10-12,
1978 and later. Loleta, California. Completed registration for no. 1 (November
10), no. 2 (November 11); for no. 10 and 11 and for no. 12 (November 12) of Some of The Harmony of Maine.
After November 12,
1978. New York. Completed no. 13 and Some of
The Harmony of Maine.
December 1, 1978. New York, Entermedia Theater, Nova Convention.
Performed Dialogue with Merce
Cunningham.
December 7, 1978. New York, Japan House (333 East 47th
Street), Japan Society. Performed with Merce Cunningham at a celebration
honoring Porter A. McCray.
December 16, 1978 (afternoon). New York, 1 University
Place, New York Reading Series. Performed in shared program with John Ashbery.
Prior to December 18, 1978. New Haven, Connecticut,
Yale University, School of Music, Philip F. Nelson, Dean. Visited as guest of
the Samuel Simons Sanford Professorship of Music.
Late 1978 or early 1979. New York, Nova Convention.
Performed excerpt from Writing through
Finnegans Wake.
1979 or earlier. Wrote Correction (text); Jasper
Johns (text).
1979. Wrote B.W.
1916-1979 (text); Writing for
the Third Time through Finnegans Wake (text).
1979. Elected 380th member, Kungl. Musikaliska
Akademien (Royal Swedish Academy of Music).
January 1, 1979. New York, Entermedia Theater, St.
Marks Church New Years Benefit: read from Indeterminacy:
New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music (Giorno Poetry
Systems Records GPS 018 [recording]).
January 1-10 [circa], 1979. Oakland, California, Crown
Point Press, fourth visit. Began Changes
and Disappearances [artwork] (Brown, Ka. 1980, [11]; Toland 1982a).
January 1979. New York. Composed Hymns and Variations.
January 16, 1979. Montral, Qubec, Concordia
University, Sir George Williams Campus, invited by Russell T. Gordon. Spoke to
fine arts graduate students (morning); introduced and performed from Part IV of
Empty Words (afternoon, room H-110),
followed by question period (Berkowitz 1979a; Berkowitz 1979b; Culver 1997; Gervais 1997; Rivest 1997b).
Early February 1979. New York. Moved from Bank Street
to West 18th Street and Sixth Avenue (Cage/Anonymous 1993a, 111-112; Silverman,
K. 2010, 309).
February 1, 1979. New York, Whitney Museum of American
Art (Madison Avenue at 75th Street), Composers Showcase. Performed two
different selections from Part IV of Empty
Words (two performances, 7:00 and 9:30 pm).
February 18, 1979 (afternoon). Jamaica, New York, York College, Hillside Center Auditorium (150-91 87th Road). Guest composer at New Music Consort concert; First Construction (in Metal) performed, as well as music by David Schiff, Arnold Schoenberg, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Maurice Wright.
March?, 1979. Atlanta, Georgia, WGST Newsradio,
Midday: participated in discussion.
March 1979. Los Angeles, California, Louver Gallery.
Exhibition of prints.
March 11, 1979 (late afternoon). New York, Carnegie Recital Hall. Presumably attended recital by Arline Carmen Kempner (mezzo soprano, dedicatee of Solo for Voice 1) and Richard Shirk (piano).
March 1979 [possibly confused with March 27, 1983]. Vancouver, British Columbia, Vancouver East Cultural Centre, presented by Vancouver New Music Society. Possibly performed Writing for the Second Time through Finnegans Wake (Pich 1997).
March 14, 1979. Windsor, Ontario, Art Gallery of
Windsor (445 Riverside Drive West), Arts Expanding Series. Performed from Part
IV of Empty Words; question period
afterwards (Guinn 1979; Van Vugt 1979).
March 20, 1979. Cambridge, Massachusetts, Longy School
of Music. Attended Boston Musica Viva concert, John Cage: Music from 1933 to
1978 including Chorals, played by
Nancy Cirillo (Buell 1979).
March 21, 1979. Baltimore, Maryland, University of
Maryland. Performed from Part IV of Empty
Words.
March 27, 1979. Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Bing Theater, presented with Some Serious Business.
Performed from Part IV of Empty Words
(evening, 64-minute performance); interviewed by Bill Womack (Cage/Womack 1979;
Clothier 1979; Segal 1979).
April 1979. Wrote request for recordings for Roaratorio (Cage 1982COLLECTING).
April 3, 1979. Bruxelles, Atelier rue Sainte Anne (20,
rue Sainte Anne). Le Groupe Intervalles de Paris, Jean-Yves Bosseur conducting,
gave performance of Mesostics for Erik
Satie [sic], possibly identical with Letter(s)
to Erik Satie (Gillemon 1979).
April 5, 1979. De Kalb, Illinois, Northern Illinois
University. Attended: performances of 0'00",
Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music, Variations IV; Cages participation unknown.
April 29-30, 1979. Flew to London. Stayed with Bonnie
Bird Grundlach.
April 30, 1979. Norwich, England. Met Joe [Joseph]
Heaney (1919-1984) (Cage 1980ABOUT, [27]; Cage/Schning 1982, 91, 93; Eastern Daily Press 1979).
Spring 1979. Toured in Europe with Merce Cunningham
and Dance Company. Company briefly in Paris rehearsing Changing Steps in the Thtre du Silence.
May 2, 1979. Flew to Lyons.
May 3, 1979. Lyons, Auditorium Maurice-Ravel, Salle
Proton de la Chapelle. Press conference with Merce Cunningham, David Tudor,
Martin Kalve, Marc Le Bot, and Marcelle Michel, moderated by Georges Lon (Baille
1979; J.-J.-L. 1979; Michel 1979).
Prior to May 6, 1979. Lyons, Auditorium Maurice-Ravel.
Performed with Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds
Anonymously Received to Tango and
other choreographies; scheduled work on Roaratorio
with Klaus Schning (Baille 1979; Cage 1980, [31]; Cage/Schning 1982, 107).
May 6, 1979. Mcon, Action Culturelle de Mcon.
Performed with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Event #223.
May 8, 1979. La Rochelle, Maison de la Culture de La
Rochelle, Mai Musical de Bordeaux. Performed with Merce Cunningham Dance
Company, Event #224.
May 10-11 [announced, eventually presumably May
11-12], 1979. Bordeaux, Grand-Thtre, Mai Musical de Bordeaux (May 4-20).
Performed with Martin Kalve, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham Dance Company,
music by Maryanne Amacher to Torse,
David Tudor, Weatherings to Exchange; Takehisa Kosugi, S.E. Wave/E.W. Song to Squaregame (May 10); music by Martin
Kalve to Fractions; Letter to Erik Satie with Sound Anonymously Received to Tango; David Tudor, Toneburst to Sounddance,
and unidentified music to Changing Steps
Et Cetera.
June 2-3, 1979. The Hague, Nederlands Congresgebouw,
Holland Festival. Performed with Martin Kalve, David Tudor, and Merce
Cunningham Dance Company: Cartridge Music
to Changing Steps Et Cetera; Letter to Erik Satie with Sound Anonymously Received to Tango (alone); First Week in June; Takehisa Kosugi, S.E. Wave/E.W. Song to Squaregame.
June 4, 1979. Traveled to Cologne.
June 6-10, 1979. Bonn, Tage Neuer Musik, John
Cage-Festival. Attended and participated; Paul Zukofsky performed from Freeman Etudes (June 6); gave first
complete performance of Empty Words,
with Maryanne Amacher, Close Up (June
6-7, Kulturforum Bonn-Center); attended recital by Doris Thomson: Bacchanale, And the Earth Shall Bear Again, A
Room, Totem Ancestor, Tossed As It Is Untroubled, Prelude for Meditation, A Valentine out of Season, Root of an Unfocus, Music for Marcel Duchamp, Daughters
of the Lonesome Isle, Two Pastorales
(June 7, Cologne, Beginner-Studio, Gottesweg 52); Nachhren-Nachdenken:
Gesprch ber John Cage (June 8, morning, Kultur Forum, Mittelfoyer); Giancarlo
Cardini, Lorenzo Ferrero, Grard Frmy, Stephen Montague, Frederic Rzewski,
Dieter Schnebel (harpsichords), David Tudor (electric harpsichord) performed HPSCHD, visual realization by Josef
Anton Riedl (June 8, evening, Beethovenhalle, Groer Saal);
Nachhren-Nachdenken: Gesprch ber John Cage (June 9, morning, Kultur Forum,
Mittelfoyer); Grard Frmy performed The
Perilous Night; Ensemble Musique Vivante, Paul Zukofsky, conductor,
performed Sixteen Dances (June 9,
afternoon, Kultur Forum, Theater); conducted Atlas Eclipticalis, performed by Ensemble Musique Vivante, with Winter Music, performed by Giancarlo
Cardini, Lorenzo Ferrero, Grard Frmy, Stephen Montague, Frederic Rzewski,
Dieter Schnebel and David Tudor; Ensemble Musique Vivante, Paul Zukofsky,
coaching and conductor, performed Cheap
Imitation and The Seasons (June
9, evening, Beethovenhalle, Studio); performance of Musicircus (June 9, Bundesgartenschau, Theaterzelt, organized by
Walter Zimmermann); Doris Thomson performed Sonatas
and Interludes and Suite for Toy
Piano (June 10, afternoon, Cologne, Beginner-Studio, Gottesweg 52);
performed Lecture on the Weather with
Die Maulwerker/Berlin, Dieter Schnebel; first performance of Hymns and Variations by the Klner Rundfunkchor,
Herbert Schernus, conductor (June 10, evening, Beethovenhalle, Groer Saal); Renga with Apartment House 1776 (Klner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Dennis
Russell Davies); four discussions, two of them attended by Cage; one-person
exhibition (June 6-14, Kulturforum Bonn-Center); interviewed for Neue Hoffnung (Brooks, W. 1981b;
Cage/Anonymous 1979; Ferrero 1979; Glauber 1979; Gronemeyer 1979b; Gronemeyer
1981-1982; Nyffeler 1979a; Nyffeler 1979b; Nyffeler 1979c; Oehlschlgel 1979b;
Runge 1979; Schreiber, W. 1979a; Schreiber, W. 1979b; Schrmann 1979a;
Schrmann 1979b; Schrmann 1979c; Tempo
1979; Terschren 1979; Zeller 1979a).
June 12-14, 1979. Brussels, Atelier rue Sainte-Anne,
Thtre, Journes John Cage avec John Cage. Attended; Vlaams Mobiel
Kamerensemble performed Music for Wind
Instruments, Six Melodies, and Variations III (June 12, evening);
Atelier-Rencontre, interviewed by Jean-Yves Bosseur and Franoise van Kessel
(June 13, evening); Ensemble Musique Nouvelle, George Elie Octors, conductor
and percussion, and Frederic Rzewski, piano, performed Concert for Piano and Orchestra and Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter
Music; Jean-Yves Bosseur and Franoise van Kessel made Portrait de John Cage during the concert (June 14,
evening) (Bosseur, J.-Y. 1993, 161; Cage/Bosseur 1981; Collin 1979; Drapeau Rouge 1979; Libre Belgique 1979; Mairel 1979; P. Tr. 1979; Plisnier 1979).
Late June 1979 (presumably). Recorded Writing for the Second Time through
Finnegans Wake.
June 15-July 15, 1979. Ireland. Assisted by Ciaran Mac
Mathuna and Patrick OConnor (Irish Radio), with John David Fullemann and
Monika Fullemann collected recordings for Roaratorio
(Cage 1980ABOUT, unpag., [31], [35], [37]; Cage/Schning 1982; NNB?Schning
19?79[???], 21, 23; Cage 1982ROARATORIO, 118-119 (photos)).
July 15-August 15, 1979. Paris, Institut de Recherche
et de Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM). At the invitation of Pierre
Boulez, realized Roaratorio in collaboration
with John David Fullemann; interviewed by Klaus Schning (August 13, Studio)
(Cage 1980ABOUT, unpag., [31], [39]; Cage/Schning 1982; Schning 1982CHECK,
14/15, 17, 23).
July 19, 1979. Durham, North Carolina, American Dance Festival. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company gave first performance of Yasunao Tone, Geography and Music to Roadrunners; Cages participation unlikely.
Early August 1979. Lewiston, New York, Artpark. Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed; Cage presumably did not participate (Vaughan 1997, 209).
August 15, 1979. Returned to New York.
August 28-29, 1979. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Performed with Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
August 31, 1979. New York. Filmed by Joan Logue (films).
September 1979. New
York. Composed Paragraphs of Fresh Air.
Fall [September or early October], 1979. Wrote Another Song [text].
September 4-8, 1979. Edinburgh, Moray House Gymnasium,
Edinburgh International Festival (September 1-9). Performed with Merce
Cunningham Dance Company: Events
(September 4, 5, 7 [evenings]; September 8 [matinee and evening]); composed _, _
_ Circus on _.
September 18-22, 1979. Presumably in Paris.
September 29-30, 1979. Albuquerque, New Mexico,
KUNM-FM (radio station), Radio Performance Project (August 19-October 1):
participated.
October-December 1979. New York. Commissioned by the
Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, wrote James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet.
October 1, 1979. New York. Interviewed by Frans
Boenders (Cage/Boenders 1980).
October 2-4, 1979. New York, Camera Mart, Stage One,
Dance Umbrella, presented by TAG (Technical Assistance Group). Performed with
Martin Kalve, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Event #1 (October 2); Event #2 (October 3); Event #3 (October 4).
Before October 15, 1979. New York. Interviewed by
Barbara Rowes (Rowes 1979).
Fall 1979. Toured and performed with Merce Cunningham
Dance Company in Europe.
October 9-November 5, 1979. Beaubourg. Performed with
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
October 11, 1979.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, KFAI, Marathon Pledge Week. First performance of Paragraphs of Fresh Air.
October 20, 1979. Donaueschingen, Sternensaal,
Donaueschinger Musiktage (October 19-21), Akustische Spielformen. Attended
first presentation of Roaratorio
(morning); preceding the presentation, received the Karl-Sczuka-Preis fr
Radiokunst des Sdwestfunks Baden-Baden (DM 25,000) from Alois Rummel,
Hrfunkdirektor; Heinrich Vormweg spoke eulogy; Cage read speech of thanks;
presentation repeated October 21, morning (Bitz 1979; Cage 1980e; Fohrbeck
1985; Gronemeyer 1979a; Kaiser, J. 1979; Koch, G.R. 1979;
Kumpf 1979; Matejka 1979; Schweizer 1979; Vormweg 1982; Zietsch 1979).
October 22, 1979. Cologne, Westdeutscher Rundfunk,
WDR-3 Hrspielstudio: first broadcast of Roaratorio,
produced by Westdeutscher Rundfunk (Klaus Schning), Katholieke Radio Omroep,
and Sddeutscher Rundfunk; first Dutch broadcast October 23 (KRO Radio,
Hilversum 2) (Cage 1982ROARATORIO, 15).
October 30-31, November 1, 1979. Oakland Symphony performed The Seasons. Cage presumably not in attendance (Commanday 1979).
November 2, 1979. Cologne, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Musik der Zeit. Grupo de accin instrumental performed Take It Easy but Take It, a musical-scenic collage on John Cages work; Cage presumably not in attendance.
November 4, 1979. Wrote The Beginning of a Connection between Satie and Thoreau (text)
(Cage 1980a).
November 8, 1979-January 26, 1980. New York, Drawing
Center (137 Greene Street), Musical Manuscripts, exhibition organized by
Martha Beck, part of Sounds, initiated by P.S. 1 gallery; the other
exhibition was Scores and Notations, organized by Peter Frank.
Manuscript of solo for piano from Concert
for Piano and Orchestra on exhibit (group exhibition with others) (Johnson,
Tom 1979a; Ratcliff 1980).
December 4, 1979. New York, Saint Thomas Church, works by Benjamin Britten performed; Cage perhaps in attendance.
December 7-8, 1979. New York, The Kitchen Cednter for Video, Music and Dance. Ned Sublette performed his arrangement of Cheap Imitation for guitar (1978) in shared program with music by Jackson Mac Low and La Monte Young.
December 10, 1979. New York, Cooper Union (Third
Avenue at Seventh Street), Great Hall, organized by the Group for Contemporary
Music at Manhattan School of Music, 18th Season. With Charles Wuorinen and John
Rockwell, participated in discussion after a concert with compositions by Tod
Machover, Charles Wuorinen, Gerald Chenoweth and Cage (Third Construction performed by New Jersey Percussion Ensemble
Quartet) (New Yorker 1980;
Rockwell 1979a).
December 13, 1979. Received American Music Center
Letter of Distinction (New York
Times 1979).
Between late December 1979 and February 4, 1980. New
York, Carnegie Recital Hall. New Music Consort performed Third Construction (New
Yorker 1980).
1979-1980. Wrote Writing
for the Fourth Time through Finnegans Wake.
1979-1981. Conceived Montestella dIvrea in
collaboration with John Fullemann; it remained unfinished.
1979-1982. Wrote Writing through the Cantos (text).
1980. Wrote White
on Blanco for O.P. (text).
1980. Interviewed by Giacomo Pellicciotti
(Pellicciotti 1981).
January 1-15, 1980. Oakland, California, Crown Point
Press. Visited; continued work on Changes
and Disappearances.
January 16-24, 1980. Ponape, Caroline Islands.
Contributed to Word of Mouth, an artists meeting initiated by Kathan Brown and
sponsored by Crown Point Press, with Laurie Anderson, Chris Burden, Daniel
Buren, Brian Hunt, Joan Jonas, Robert Kushner, Bryce Marden, Tom Marioni, Pat
Steir, Marina Abramovic/Ulay, William T. Wiley; performed from Themes and Variations (then in progress;
January 16, evening, Village Hotel, recording: Crown Point Press 37327 AL as Vision nr. 4) (Glueck 1980).
January 20-March 2, 1980. Berlin, Akademie der Knste,
Fr Augen und Ohren: Von der Spieluhr zum akustischen Environment. Group
exhibition; Cage represented with Concerto
grosso, Silent Environment
(installations) and other work, and concerts: Lecture on the Weather; Rozart
Mix (January 27, realization by David Tudor and Dieter Schnebel) (Bos 1980;
Cage 1980b; Cage 1980h; Eberle 1980).
January 25, 1980. Santa Cruz, California, University
of California. Gave first performance of James
Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet.
January 28-February 9, 1980. La Jolla, California,
University of California, San Diego. Two-week residency as Regents Lecturer;
performed James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp,
Erik Satie: An Alphabet, followed by question period (January 28, evening,
Mandeville Auditorium); attended opening of exhibition of lithographs at
University of California at Santa Cruz (January 30); attended concert by SONOR
(January 30, evening, Mandeville Auditoruim); performed from Empty Words (February 1, evening, Center
for Music Experiment, Building 408, Warren Campus, as part of Whats Cooking
III); attended rehearsals and concert of his music and possibly performed as
part of Whats Cooking III (February 1-3, afternoons and evenings, same
location; February 3, Opus 5 Art Studio, Solana Beach, morning); attended
concert of his music, presumably Musicircus
including Roaratorio (February 8,
evening, Mandeville Auditorium); continued work on Themes and Variations; exhibition of score pages (reproductions)
with commentary of the faculty members of the music department (Mandeville
Center for the Performing Arts, East Room); interviewed by Barry Alfonso,
Joshua Harrison, Gay Knapp, Kathlyn Russell, Isabella Wasserman; Pauline
Oliveros focused her winter semester course on Cage (Alfonso 1980; Arne 1980;
Cage/Harrison 1980; Dierks 1980; Faculty 1980; Herman, A. 1980; Jones, Ja.
1980; Knapp 1980a; Knapp 1980b; Oliveros 1987-1988; Rich 1980; Russell,
K. 1980; Schillaci 1980; Wasserman 1980).
February 8-9, 1980. Albany, New York, State University of New York. Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Fractions, Locale, Squaregame (February 8); Torse II, Exchange, Roadrunners (February 9); Cage presumably participated.
February 10, 1980. Bronxville, New York, Sarah
Lawrence College. Performed James Joyce,
Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet.
February 11, 1980. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Arts
Center. Performed James Joyce, Marcel
Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet.
February 13, 1980. New York, Columbia University.
Performed James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp,
Erik Satie: An Alphabet.
February 14, 1980. Wrote first of two letters to M. William
Karlins (Cage 1981k).
February 19-24, 26-29, and March 1-2, 1980. New York,
City Center 55th Street Theatre. Performed with Jon Gibson, Martin Kalve,
Garrett List, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Letter to Erik Satie with Sound Anonymously Received to Tango, Takehisa Kosugi, S.E. Wave/E.W. Song to Squaregame (with Kalve and Tudor),
Maryanne Amacher, Remainder 18.]R[ ]D[=
afterimage (also used as a classifier of seeds to Torse I, Takehisa Kosugi, Interspersion
to Locale (Kalve) (February 19);
Maryanne Amacher, Remainder 18.]R[ ]D[= afterimage
(also used as a classifier of seeds to Torse
I, Yasunao Tone, Geography and Music
to Roadrunners (Cage), David
Tudor, Weatherings to Exchange (Tudor) (February 20); Equal Distribution to Fractions (Jon Gibson alone), Inlets, Roadrunners (February 21); Torse
II, Exchange, Roadrunners (February 22); Torse II, Locale, Cartridge Music
to Exercise Piece III (first
performance), as part of Changing Steps
Et Cetera (February 23, matinee); Christian Wolff, Music for Merce Cunningham to Rune; Inlets, Squaregame (February 23, evening); Fractions, Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds
Anonymously Received to Tango,
Sounddance, Roadrunners (February 24, matinee); Locale, Roamin I, Blue Studio: Five Segments (February 24,
evening); Christian Wolff, Music for Merce
Cunningham to Rune, Improvisation III to Duets (first performance, Peadhar
Mercier and Mel Mercier [on tape]), Exchange
(February 26); Landrover, Duets, Sounddance (February 27); Torse
III, Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds Anonymously Received to Tango, Locale, Squaregame
(February 28); Torse III, Exchange, Roadrunners (February 29); 52/3
to Landrover (with Kalve and Tudor), Improvisation III to Duets (with Kalve and Tudor), Cartridge Music [or perhaps Inlets] to Changing Steps Et Cetera (with Kalve and Tudor) (March 1, matinee);
Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds Anonymously Received to Tango (alone), Improvisation III to Duets
(with Kalve and Tudor), Takehisa Kosugi, S.E.
Wave/E.W. Song to Squaregame
(with Kalve and Tudor), program also featured Equal Distribution to Fractions
(Jon Gibson, alone) (March 1, evening); Fractions, Locale, Roadrunners (March 2, evening);
Cunningham interviewed previously by David Vaughan (Anderson,
Jack 1980a; Anderson, Jack 1980b; Cunningham/Vaughan 1980; Kendall, E. 1980;
Kisselgoff 1980; Vaughan 1997,
212-213, 298).
February 22, 1980. Wrote second of two letters to M. William
Karlins (Cage 1981k).
February 28, 1980. New York, Judson Memorial Church, Garden Room. Read from his own work at memorial service for Jos Rollin de la Torre Bueno (Aprl 4, 1904-January 15, 1980), his editor at Wesleyan University Press; other participants were David Vaughan, Patricia N. McAndrew, Nancy Reynolds, Walter Sorell, Selma Jeanne Cohen; Neely Bruce (piano) and Phyllis Bruce (soprano) performed Winter Music and music by Jacques Offenbach and Neely Bruce.
March 8, 1980. New York, Alice Tully Hall. Continuum
performed Credo in Us, as well as
music by Lou Harrison, Elliott Carter, Jacob Druckman, Henry Cowell, Barbara
Kolb, Stefan Wolpe, and Edgard Varse (Rockwell 1980a).
March 12-13, 1980. Notre Dame, Indiana, Notre Dame
University: attended; performed James
Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet (March 12, Library
Auditorium, Sophomore Literary Festival); question period afterwards;
interviewed by Stephen Husarik (March 12-13) (Husarik 1983, 20n1; OToole
1980).
March 21, 1980. Stony Brook, State University of New
York: residency.
March 22-23, 1980. Buffalo, New York, Albright-Knox
Art Gallery, presented with the Center for the Creative and Performing Arts:
with Lejaren Hiller and Morton Feldman attended performances of HPSCHD by Neely Bruce, David Fuller,
Yvar Mikhashoff, Aki Takahashi, David Tudor (harpsichords), Joel Chadabe
(technical co-ordination), with screen-sculptures by John Toth (Putnam 1980; Reporter 1980; Simon, J. 1980).
March 25-30, 1980. New York, Merce Cunningham Studio, Westbeth: six event performances; Cage particpation uncertain.
March 30, 1980. New York. Interviewed by Cole Gagne
and Tracy Caras (Cage/Gagne and Caras 1982).
April 4-6, 1980. North Aurora, Illinois, Paramount
Arts Centre. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company: Fractions, Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds
Anonymously Received to Tango, Duets, Squaregame (April 4); Torse
II, Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds Anonymously Received to Tango, Locale, Squaregame (April
5); Torse III, Exchange, Roadrunners
(April 6).
April 7, 1980. Los Angeles, California, University
of California, Schoenberg Hall, Composers Choice. As guest composer of the Los
Angeles Philharmonic, attended concert with Sixteen
Dances and Christian Wolff, Trio I,
Nine, and Braverman Music; ensemble conducted by William Kraft.
April 8-9, 1980. Irvine, California, University of
California at Irvine. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company
(Rosenthal, A. 1980).
April 9, 1980. Irvine, California, Irvine High School
event (John Cage, Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor).
April 12-13, 1980. Los Angeles, California, University
of California. Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company: Fractions, Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds
Anonymously Received to Tango, Locale, Roadrunners (April 12, Royce Hall); with Martin Kalve, Takehisa
Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Event (April 13, Pauley Pavillion).
April 14-16, 1980. San Antonio, Texas, Carver
Community Cultural Center. Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David
Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company (April 15-16).
April 17-19, 1980. Dallas, Texas, Arts Magnet High
School, Booker T. Washington. Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi,
David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Event (April 19).
April 18-May 14, 1980. Newton Centre, Massachusetts, Boston College Gallery, Fine Arts Department, Newton Campus, Barry Pavilion (885 Centre Street). One-person exhibition, John Cage: Musical Imagery: Manuscripts and Printed Scores 1940-1979.
April 22, 1980. Gainesville, Florida, University of
Florida. Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce
Cunningham and Dance Company, Event.
April 22-23, 1980. Gainesville, University of Florida.
Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company.
April 27, 1980. New York. Composed Furniture Music Etcetera.
May 13, 1980. Buffalo, New York, State University of
New York at Buffalo, Baird Hall. Yvar Mikhashoff and Aki Takahashi gave first
performance of Furniture Music Etcetera
in a program with other compositions by Cage and Erik Satie; Cages attendance
uncertain (Young, K. 1980).
Prior to May 20, 1980. Completed Themes and Variations.
May 20, 1980. New York, Japan House, Lila Acheson
Wallace Auditorium. Performed Themes and
Variations (first complete performance) as part of Dialogue, with Merce Cunningham.
May 22, 1980. Letter to Blint Andrs Varga (Cage and Feldman/Varga 1986).
May 24, 1980. Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum, Aula. Roaratorio presented in version for
tapes alone (Koning 1980).
Summer 1980. Attended partial performance of Freeman Etudes, followed by a discussion
with Cage (Brown, K. 1980, [13]).
June 6-12, 1980. Reykjavik, Listahtđ
Reykjavk, Reykjavik Arts Festival. Visited with Paul Zukofsky, participated in
Eat-in symposium, performed Part IV of Empty
Words. Zukofsky performed Cheap
Imitation (violin) and a selection from Freeman
Etudes and conducted (unknown program).
June 13-15, 1980. Woodstock, New York, Woodstock Playhouse, Woodstock Playhouse Dance Festival. Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed Fractions, Duets, Squaregame (June 13); Fractions, Sounddance, Roadrunners (June 14); Signals, Locale, Squaregame (June 15); Cages participation uncertain.
June 23-24, 1980. Traveled to Liverpool.
June 25, 1980. Liverpool, Everyman Theatre: Merce Cunninghams Travelogue (Geoff Dunlop), Blue Studio: Five Segments, Merce Cunningham and Charles Atlas (all film showings?); Cages participation uncertain.
June 26-28, 1980. Liverpool, Everyman Theatre (Hope
Street), 1980 Hope Street Festival (began June 25 with film show). Performed; Dialogue with Merce Cunningham;
reception afterwards (June 26); with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David
Tudor, and Merce Cunningham and Dance Company, Event No.1 (June 27, evening); Event
No. 2 (June 28, matinee); traveled to London by bus after performance.
Prior to June 30, 1980. Composed Improvisation IV.
June 28-July 5, 1980. London, Sadlers Wells Theatre
(Rosebery Avenue). Performed with Merce Cunningham and Dance Company; first
performance of Improvisation IV to Fielding Sixes, with Merce Cunningham,
John Cage, Monika Fullemann (June 30); performed Letter to Erik Satie with Sound
Anonymously Received to Tango
(alone), Locale, Roadrunners (June 30-July 1); Torse
I, Sounddance, Duets, Roadrunners (July 2); Torse
III, Sounddance, Duets, Roadrunners (July 3); Fractions,
Letter to Erik Satie with Sound Anonymously Received to Tango, Locale, Squaregame (July
4); Signals, Letter to Erik Satie with Sound
Anonymously Received to Tango, Inlets, Locale (July 5, matinee); Improvisation
IV to Fielding Sixes, Inlets, Squaregame (July 5, evening) (Cage/Raymond and Roberts 1980, 5;
Vaughan 1997, 213, 298).
July 8, 1980. London, Riverside Studios/Goldsmith
College. Residency with Merce Cunningham Dance Company; Torse (dual screen version), Blue
Studio: Five Segments (video), Locale,
Roamin I (all film showings?);
Cages participation uncertain (July 6); performed with Merce Cunningham: Themes and Variations, as part of Dialogue (July 8); interviewed by
Freddy de Vree (July 8) (Cage/De Vree 1980; Cage/Raymond and Roberts 1980, 5; Jordan 1980).
July 14-18, 1980. London, University of London,
Goldsmiths College, Laban Centre for Movement and Dance: invited by Bonnie
Bird, gave series of interdisciplinary workshops with Merce Cunningham;
workshops (July 14-18, Great Hall); lecture Music for Dance probably by Cage
and concert of his early music (July 15, Great Hall); probably participated in
panel, Collaboration or Co-Existence: Two Approaches to Interdisciplinary Work
in the Arts (July 17); performed with Merce Cunningham, Themes and Variations as part of Dialogue (July 18, Great Hall) (Cage/Raymond and Roberts 1980;
Jordan 1980; Raymond 1980).
Late July 1980. New York. Composed Litany for the Whale.
Between late July-August 13, 1980. Middletown, Connecticut, Wesleyan University, Summer Choral Institute of Contemporary Music (July 2-August 13), Neely Bruce, director. In residence.
July 20, 1980, noon until midnight. New York, Passenger Ship Terminal (55th Street and Hudson River), 15th Annual Avant Garde Festival of New York. Participated.
August 8-13, 1980. Albuquerque, New Mexico, KUNM radio
station (National Public Radio), lectured on The Potential of Radio and
creation of a new work (Performing Artservices, probably postponed).
September 14-27, 1980. Oakland, California, Crown
Point Press. Fifth visit; continued work on Changes
and Disappearances and began On the
Surface, completed before or during April 1982 (Singdahlsen 1982, 22).
September 29-30, 1980. Lawrence, Kansas, University of
Kansas. Residency at the inititave of Stephen Addiss; meetings with various
classes (September 29, Murphy Hall, Room 330, 8:30 am; Murphy Hall, Room 404,
9:30 am; Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, Auditorium, 11:30 am; Visual
Arts Building, 12:30 pm [lunch]; Murphy Hall, Room 400, 3:30 pm [reception with
music]; September 30, Murphy Hall, Room 330, 9:30 am; Murphy Hall, Room 228);
introduced by J. Bunker Clark, performed James
Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet (September 30, Helen
Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, Auditorium, evening, Humanities Lecture
Series); Cages performance, accompanied by an interview by Tim Crouch, was
broadcast on KANU-FM radio October 12 (Bretz 1980a; Bretz 1980b; Clark, J. B.
1980; Haskell 1980; Lawrence
Journal-World 1980; Neufeld 1980a; Neufeld 1980b; Stipp 1980; University Daily Kansan 1980).
October 1, 1980. London, Elizabeth Hall. London Sinfonietta Voices, William Brooks conducting, performed Hymns and Variations in shared program with music by William Billings and Charles Ives (Griffiths 1980c).
October 2, 1980. Letter to Richard I.P. Hayman (Cage/Hayman 1980).
October 3, 4, 6, 11, 1980. New York, Brandeis High School, US Terpsichore. Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed Cross Currents; Cages participation uncertain.
October 4, 1980. New York, Merce Cunninghams studio. Event # 1; presumably Cage did not participate.
October 5, 1980. New York, Merce Cunninghams studio. Event # 2; presumably Cage did not participate.
October 11-November 2, 1980. Europe. Touring to Torino,
Strasbourg and Milan with Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
October 16, 1980. Bonn, Theater der Stadt Bonn.
Premire of scenic realization of Roaratorio
by Dragutin Boldin; Cages attendance uncertain (Bonner Theater-Zeitung 1980-1981; D.T. 1980; Reichow 1980; Sparrer 1980;
Terschren 1980).
October 20, 1980. Letter to Richard I.P. Hayman (Cage/Hayman 1980).
October 20-November 3, 1980. Toured with Merce
Cunningham Dance Company.
October 21, 1980. Strassburg, Thtre National de
Strasbourg, Grande Salle. Attended tape performance of Roaratorio.
October 23-25, 1980. Strassburg, Thtre National de
Strasbourg. Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and
Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Strasbourg
Event I (October 23); Strasbourg
Event II (October 24); Strasbourg
Event III (October 25) (Ph. A. 1980).
October 28-31, November 1-2, 1980. Milan, Teatro
Nazionale, Secondo rassegna internazionale di teatro-danza contemporaneo.
Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham
Dance Company: Improvisation IV to Fielding Sixes (with Kalve, Kosugi and
Tudor), Yasunao Tone, Geography and Music
to Roadrunners (with Kalve and
Kosugi), program also featured Tudor, Weatherings
to Exchange (Tudor alone);
interviewed by Emanuelita Giann and Lieselotte Longato; Cunningham
interviewed by Lieselotte Longato (Cage/Giann and Longato 1980;
Cunningham/Longato 1980).
Early November-November 25, 1980. Stuttgart, Kunsthaus
Schaller, Galerie, Musik im Bild, Internationale Musikgraphik. Exhibition
with graphic scores by Cage (Cartridge
Music) and others, organized by Erhard Karkoschka and Reinhold Urmetzer;
including opening concert by Allen Strange and others (Baruch 1980; Bergmann 1980).
November 8, 1980. Essen, Evangelische Kirche
Essen-Rellinghausen (Oberstrae). Gerd Zacher gave first performances of Some of The Harmony of Maine and
Giuseppe Giorgio Englerts Musica Barbara;
Cage presumambly not in attendance (A. W. 1980; Herbort 1980; Kirchberg 1980).
November 11, 1980. New York, School of Visual Arts.
Performed Themes and Variations
(Johnson, Tom 1980).
November 12, 1980. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
Franklin House. Received Award of the City of Philadelphia.
November 13-14, 1980. Kutztown, Pennsylvania, Kutztown
State College, New Arts Program. Visiting Artist in Residency; assisted by
ten students made eighty-four different prints, Strings 1-20, and Strings
1-62, plus two master plates.
November 20, 1980. New York, Whitney Museum of
American Art. Performed.
December 1, 1980. Chicago, Illinois, Arts Club of
Chicago, Second Annual Rue Winterbotham Shaw Program. Performed James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An
Alphabet.
December 1980. New York. Letter to Klaus Schning (Schning 1982, 20).
December 3-6, 1980. Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury
College. Residency; performed James
Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet (December 4, Dana
Auditorium); performed with Merce Cunningham, Dialogue, during which he worked on Writing through the Cantos (December 5, Wright Theatre, Middlebury
College Concert Series); interviewed with Merce Cunningham by George
Todd and Dale Cockrell (December 6) (Cage and Cunningham/Todd and Cockrell
1981).
Circa 1981. Wrote [Untitled] (mesostics on Swift) [text].
1981. Wrote Apropos of (Marcel Duchamp 1961) [text].
1981. Visited Montestella dIvrea [near Turin] to prepare Montestella
dIvrea in collaboration with John Fullemann; it remained unfinished.
1981. Amsterdam.
Frances-Marie Uitti gave first performance of Etudes Boreales (violoncello).
1981. Brussels, Atelier rue Sainte-Anne, Les musiciens, les potes, les peintres et leurs partitions (deuxime formule). Exhibition, with others.
1981. Detroit, Michigan, Fluxus – The Gilbert & Lila Silverman Collection. Exhibition (Block and Freybourg 1983, 5).
Early-prior to April 3, 1981. New York. Composed Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras.
January 1981. Bochum, Galerie Inge Baecker. Exhibition
of Cages scores and Merce Cunninghams notes (Wanzelius 1981).
January 9-24, 1981. Paris, Institut de Recherche et de
Coordination Acoustique/Musique (IRCAM), Espace de Projection. Rehearsed
(January 9-19) and performed Roaratorio
(first live performance), with Joe Heaney (singing), Peadher Mercier and Mell
Mercier (bodhran), with technical assistance by John David Fullemann in shared
program with music by Rolf Gehlhaar (January 19-24); interviewed by Alain
Rolland and Jukka Tiensuu (Cage/Rolland 1981; Cage/Tiensuu 1983; Cond 1981a;
Cond 1981b; Emmerik, I. van 1981; Ferrer 1981; Oja 1980; Potter, K. 1981;
Schning 1982, 22, 24).
February 17, 1981. New York, Gracie Mansion. Recipient
(with Harold Clurman [posthumous], Andr Kertsz, I. M. Pei, Peter Martins,
Robert Motherwell, Billy Taylor, Barbara Tuchman) of the Mayors Award of Honor
for Arts and Culture, Mayor Edward I. Koch, Commission for Cultural Affairs of
the City of New York; Louise Nevelson, presenter.
February 20, 1981. Akron, Ohio, Thomas Hall. Coached
by Merce Cunningham, Ohio Ballet performed his Signals (with tape accompaniment); Cage presumably not in
attendance (Salisbury 1981).
Late February 1981. New York, Baldwin Piano Company
store. Performed 4'33" for
production of Hologram of John Cage
by Jason Sapon (Close 1981c).
Prior to March 1981. New York. Interviewed by David Sears (Sears 1981).
March 14, 1981. New York, New York Times Building,
WQXR Auditorium, presented by Jack Kahn Pianos. Hosted by Joseph Bloom, Grete
Sultan performed from Etudes Australes
[XVII-XXVIII or -XXXII, possibly including first performances]; Cages
attendance uncertain.
March 14-May 3,
1981. Florence, Sala dArme di Palazzo Vecchio. Exhibition, Spartito Preso (with others); August 26-October 18, 1981 in Turin, Mole
Antonelliana (Lombardi 1981).
March 17-29, 1981. New York, City Center. Performed
with Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Fractions,
Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds Anonymously Received to Tango, 10s with Shoes, Roadrunners
(March 17-18; March 17 Opening Benefit Gala); Improvisation IV to Fielding
Sixes, Duets, Exchange (March 19-20); Signals, Inlets, Locale (March 21,
matinee); Duets, Inlets, Exchange (March
21, evening); Improvisation IV to Fielding Sixes, 10s with Shoes, Exchange
(March 22); David Tudor, Phonemes to Channels/Inserts (March 24); Improvisation IV to Fielding Sixes, 10s with
Shoes, Roadrunners; David Tudor, Phonemes to Channels/Inserts (March 24-25); Fractions,
Letter to Erik Satie with Sounds Anonymously Received to Tango, 10s with Shoes, Locale
(March 26-27); Signals, Inlets, Locale (March 28, matinee); Duets,
Inlets, 10s with Shoes (March 28, evening); Improvisation IV to Fielding
Sixes, 10s with Shoes, Roadrunners (March 29) (Harris, Me.
1981; Sears 1981; Tobias 1981).
April 2, 1981. New London, Connecticut, Connecticut
College, Collaborations. Performed James
Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet (morning, Oliva Hall);
participated in panel, Recent Collaborations, with Meredith Monk, Jim
Melchert, William McCloy (moderator) (Dana Hall, afternoon); Yvar Mikhashoff
and Aki Takahashi performed Furniture
Music Etcetera and Erik Satie, Parade
as well as other pieces by Cage and Satie.
April 3, 1981. Toronto, Ontario, New Music Concerts.
Performed James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp,
Erik Satie: An Alphabet; interviewed previously by Andrew Timar, Miguel
Frasconi, and Vid Ingelevics (Cage/Timar, Frasconi and Ingelevics 1981).
Early April 1981. London, Ontario, University of Western Ontario. Interviewed by Jack Behrens (videotaped) (Behrens 1987).
April 10, 1981. In New York.
April 6-May 3, 1981. Minnesota residency with Merce
Cunningham Dance Company (co-sponsored by the presenters: Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis; College of Saint Benedict, St. Joseph; St. Cloud University, St.
Cloud; University of Minnesota, Duluth; Northrop Dance Season, Minneapolis);
first presentation of Hologram of John
Cage by Jason Sapon (Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art Center, Lobby);
also performed in Landmark Building: presumably Cheap Imitation (broadcast live on radio) (Close 1981c).
April 15, 1981. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Art
Center, Auditorium. Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, and David
Tudor, Event (without dance; including Cage performing Inlets) (Close 1981a).
April 18, 1981. Duluth, Minnesota, Marshall Performing
Arts Center. Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor and
Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Event.
April 25, 1981. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Northrop
Auditorium. Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and
Merce Cunningham and Dance Company: repertory performances: Improvisation IV to Fielding Sixes; Letter to
Erik Satie with Sound Anonymously
Received to Tango (alone); Tudor,
Phonemes to Channels/Inserts (Tudor alone); Yasunao Tone, Geography and Music to Roadrunners
(Close 1981d).
April 30, 1981. St. Joseph, Minnesota, College of
Saint Benedict, Benedicta Arts Center, Auditorium. Performed with Martin Kalve,
Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Improvisation III to Duets (other pieces Jon Gibson, Equal Distribution to Fractions, Takehisa Kosugi, Interspersion to Locale).
May 2, 1981. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Saltari Dance
Studio (2708 East Lake Street), presented by Walker Art Center. Performed with
Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham Dance Company,
Event.
May 3, 1981. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Coliseum Ballroom
(Lake Street and 27th Avenue South), presented by Walker Art Center. Performed
with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham Dance
Company, Event (Close 1981b).
May 4-8, 1981. Middlebury, Vermont, Middlebury
College: residency, under the auspices of the Christian A. Johnson
Distinguished Professorship in the Performing Arts; attended concerts in his
honor (May 4, Dana Auditorium); gave workshop (May 6, Johnson Rehearsal Hall);
participated in performance of Song Books
with Music 325 Class (Andy Auber, Barbara Boyd, Sueann Caulfield, Dale
Cockrell, Lesley-Anne Gliedmann, Helen Gregory, Chip Hixon, Joanne Itskovitz,
Gannon Kashiwa, Brian Reddington, Laurie Ross, Joanie Solaini, George Todd,
Billy Winkleman) at concert in his honor also featuring other compositions by
Cage and others (May 6, Johnson Pit); performed Themes and Variations (May 7, Dana Auditorium); concert (May 8,
Johnson Pit).
May 16-17, 1981. Brooklyn, New York, Brooklyn Arts
& Culture Association, Downtown Cultural Center, 111 Willoughby Street.
Attended A Celebration of John Cage: A Far Out Weekend by Rick Russo and
Company (May 16, evening), including second presentation of Hologram of John Cage by Jason Sapon;
repeated May 17, afternoon (Phoenix
1981).
May 18-23, 1981. Lisbon, Portugal, Calouste Gulbenkian
Foundation. Merce Cunningham and Dance Company gave repertory performances (May
20-23); Cages participation uncertain.
May 30-August 16, 1981. Cologne, Rheinhallen, Westkunst,
an exhibition organized by the Museen der Stadt Kln: manuscript Water Music on exhibit.
June 6, 1981. Cologne: prepared James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: ein Alphabet (Schning
1982[CHECK], 21).
June 7, 1981. Bremen, berseemuseum: prepared A House Full of Music (Anonymous
1982[BIOGRAPHISCHE], 69; Muziek en Woord
1982).
June 8-20, 1981. London, Sadlers Wells Theatre.
Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor, and Merce Cunningham
Dance Company, Improvisation IV to Fielding Sixes, Yasunao Tone, Geography and Music to Roadrunners (without Tudor), Tudor,
Phonemes to Channels/Inserts (Tudor alone) (June 8-9); Maryanne Amacher, Remainder to Torse (Tudor); David Tudor, Weatherings
to Exchange (Tudor); Takehisa Kosugi,
Cycles to Gallopade (June 10-11); Improvisation IV to Fielding Sixes and Letter to
Erik Satie with Sound Anonymously
Received to Tango (alone); Martin
Kalve, All Happy Workers Babies &
Dogs to 10s with Shoes (Kalve);
Takehisa Kosugi, Interspersion to Locale (Kosugi and Kalve) (June
12); Improvisation III to Duets, Inlets; Kosugi, Interspersion
to Locale (Kalve and Kosugi) (June 13,
matinee); Letter to Erik Satie with Sound Anonymously Received to Tango (alone); Jon Gibson, Equal Distribution to Fractions; Martin Kalve, All Happy Workers Babies & Dogs to 10s with Shoes (Kalve); Takehisa
Kosugi, Cycles to Gallopade (June 13, evening); Improvisation III to Duets; Jon Gibson, Equal Distribution to Fractions; Tudor, Phonemes to Channels/Inserts
(June
15-16); Amacher, music to Torse;
Kosugi, Cycles to Gallopade; Tudor, Weatherings to Exchange
(June 17-18); Improvisation IV to Fielding Sixes, Inlets, Yasunao Tone, Geography
and Music to Roadrunners (the
latter piece without Tudor) (June 19); Letter
to Erik Satie with Sound Anonymously
Received to Tango (alone, June
20, matinee and evening performances), Yasunao Tone, Geography and Music to Roadrunners
(without Tudor) (June 20, evening) (Percival 1981).
June 17-August 2, 1981. Exhibition, Sound on Paper.
June 18-27, 1981. Purchase, New York, State University
of New York, Neuberger Museum (Anderson Hill Road and Lincoln Avenue).
Soundings (exhibition). Contributed 33
1/3 (Flood 1982; Frankel 1981; Mejias 1982; Wooster 1982).
July 20-27, 1981. Chteauvallon near Toulon, Festival
de Chteauvallon, Festival International de Danse Toulon (July 15-August 14).
Performed with Martin Kalve, Takehisa Kosugi, David Tudor and Merce Cunningham
Dance Company: Events: Chteauvallon Evnement 1 (July 24); Chteauvallon Evnement 2 (July 25);
meeting with the audience (July 26, late afternoon, Salle de Cinma, Cage and
Cunningham); Chteauvallon Evnement 3
(July 26); videos presented; dance workshops (July 21-23) (Baron 1981;
Bombert 1981a; Bombert 1981b; Brunel 1981a; Brunel 1981b; Gubernatis 1981; Journal du Var 1981; Lartigue 1981; Montagne 1981; Robez 1981; Verdier
1981a; Verdier 1981b).
Summer-Fall 1981. Conceived Evne/EnvironneMetzment.
Summer 1981 [via Switzerland, then to London, so
possibly 1980]. Metz. Prepared first performances of Evne/EnvironneMetzment and Thirty
Pieces for Five Orchestras (Cage/Masson 1981).
July 29-August 13, 1981. Visit to Japan with Teeny
Duchamp, Jacqueline Monnier, Anne dHarnoncourt, and Marisol Escobar:
Karuizawa, Takanawa Art Museum: attended exhibition with Teeny Duchamp;
participated in concert with Variations
IV (August 1-2, early evening, Takanawa Art Museum); travel to Matsushima
via Sendai (August 3-4); stay in Matsushima (August 4-6); travel to Tokyo
(August 6); stay in Tokyo (August 7); travel to Kyoto (August 8); stay in Kyoto
(August 8-9); travel to Nara (August 10); stay in Nara (August 10); travel to
Kumano (August 11); stay in Kumano (August 12); travel to Tokyo (August 13)
(Stokes 1981).
August 17-30, 1981. Guildford, Surrey, University of
Surrey, International Dance Course for Professional Choreographers and
Composers (August 17-29). Directed with Merce Cunningham; wrote Composition in Retrospect; interviewed
by Lee Crampton (August 30) (Crampton
1985; Jordan 1981).
September 20-November 1, 1981. Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Fluxus – The Gilbert & Lila Silverman Collection. Exhibition.
September 21, 1981. New York. Letter to Nikša
Gligo (Cage 1981c).
Prior to fall 1981. Wrote letter to Jonathan Brent
(Cage 1981f).
September 25-26, 1981 (rehearsals began September 24).
Hartford, Connecticut, Real Art Ways (40 State Street), John Cage Festival
(September 1-October 3), funded by the Greater Hartford Arts Council and the
National Endowment for the Arts, United Technologies Corporation, Connecticut
General Corporation, Knox Foundation, and Meet the Composer. Performed Empty Words with Maryanne Amacher, Close Up, broadcast live via satellite
on National Public Radio (Christ Church, Cathedral House, 45 Church Street);
the festival also featured exhibition of plexigrams, etchings, and lithographs
(September 1-26, Gallery); presentation of films on Cage (various dates and
locations); Paul Zukofsky performed Cheap
Imitation (violin) and from Freeman
Etudes (October 3, University of Hartford, Hartt School of Music, Millard
Auditorium) (Moshell 1981; Tuck 1981).
October 8, 1981. New York. Participated in the One
World Poetry Festival, Amsterdam, De Melkweg [evening, local time], by
performing 21-minute excerpt from Part IV of Empty Words by telephone, answered by Michael Gibbs (Bent 1981).
October 23, 1981. Cologne. Letter by Klaus Schning to Cage (Cage/Schning 1984-1985a).
November 5-6, 1981. Denton, Texas, North Texas State
University, School of Music, 8th International Computer Music Conference,
co-presented by University Union Program Council, organized by Larry Austin and
Thomas Clark (November 5-8). Guest composer (with Lejaren Hiller); gave first
reading of Composition in Retrospect
(three continuous performances with slides, November 5, evening, Concert Hall);
interviewed by Edward Rothstein; participated in the production of a
performance of HPSCHD by Tim Beard,
Charles Brown, Susan Ferre, Janet Hunt, Joe Kimbel, Dale Peters, Thom Whitaker
(harpsichordists); David Bradfield, Jon Meinecke, Robert Van Stryland, Columbus
(sound and image); co-produced by Larry Austin and Bruce Balentine (November 6,
University Union Building Courtyard, 8 pm-midnight) (McLean, P. 1982; Poore
1982; Rothstein 1981a; Strawn et al. 1982).
November 11, 1981. New York, St. Marks Church, Parish
House (2nd Avenue and 10th Street), Poetry Project at St. Marks. Read Theme and Variations.
Prior to November 19, 1981. Wrote On the Surface [text].
November 17-22, 1981. Metz, Diximes Rencontres
Internationales de Musique Contemporaine (November 19-22), Claude Lefebvre,
director. Attended; participated with audience in first performance of Evne/EnvironneMetzment (November 21,
Buffet de la Gare, Salle Franois de Curel); co-ordinated and attended first
performance of Thirty Pieces for Five
Orchestras (November 22, Pont--Mousson, Abbaye des Prmontrs, Eglise
Abbatiale; Orchestre Philharmonique de Lorraine; Alain Dubois, Fernand
Quattrocchi, Gilbert Rose, Serge This, Grard Wilgowicz [replacing Maurice Le
Roux], conductors) (Bastian 1981; Bitz 1981; Cage/Darter 1982, 19; Cage/Masson
1981; Coenen 1982; Doucelin 1981; Emmerik, I. van 1982; Gill, D. 1981; Gromer
1981; Gronemeyer 1981a; Gronemeyer 1981b; Herbort 1981; Hifi-Stereophonie 1982; Johnson, Tom 1981b; Jungheinrich 1981;
Jungheinrich 1981-1982; Kirchberg 1981; Koch, G.R. 1981; Koch, G.R.
2001; Koch,
H. W. 1981a; Koch, H. W. 1981b; Lichtenfeld 1981; Lonchampt 1981; Mal. 1981; Marie-Claire 1981; Masson 1981a; Masson
1981b; Masson 1981c; Masson 1981d; Masson 1981e; Miranda 1981; Morisset 1981;
Morlet-Rozand 1981; Muggler 1982; Olivier 1981; Opitz 1981a; Opitz 1981b; Rpublicain Lorrain 1981; Samuel
1981; Schning 1982, 12; Schreiber, W. 1981; Stedingk 1981; Stichweh 1982;
Szersnovicz 1981; Weber, L. 1981).
November or December 1981. Heidelberg, Universitt Heidelberg, Alte Aula, presented by Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut. Frances-Marie Uitti performed Etudes Boreales (violoncello).
December 1981. New York. Invited by Marjorie Perloff,
performed Themes and Variations at
the annual MLA [Modern Language Association] Convention (Radano 1982-1983).
December 15, 1981-January 31, 1982. Wuppertal, Kunst-
und Museumsverein im
Von-der-Heydt-Museum. Fluxus: Aspekte eines Phnomens. Exhibition (Peters, U. and Schwarzbauer 1981).
Prior to 1982. Interviewed by Jean Stein (Cage/Stein
1982).
1982. New York. Revised and completed Improvisation IV (Cage/Kraglund 1982).
1982. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Jeffrey Fuller Fine
Art. One-person exhibition.
1982. Minneapolis, Minnesota, Walker Arts Center.
One-person exhibition of graphic work.
1982. Cincinnati, Ohio, Carl Solway Gallery:
exhibition (with others).
1982. New York [sic], Crown Point Press. Exhibition
with others.
1982. Oakland, California, Crown Point Gallery:
exhibition of graphic work, with others (Shere 1982b).
1982. New York, Margarete Roeder Gallery. Exhibition
of scores, with others.
January 1982. Oakland, California, Crown Point Press.
Completed Changes and Disappearances,
began Dreau (DHarnoncourt
1982b/1982, 61; Toland 1982b, 20); presumably also worked on Ryoanji [?]; John 1982[ETCHINGS].
January 1982. Oakland or San Francisco. Presumably performed Composition in Retrospect.
January 1982. New York. Completed Dance/4 Orchestras.
January 19-20, 1982. Princeton, New Jersey, McCarter Theatre. Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed; Cages participation uncertain.
January 28-31, 1982. Toronto, Ontario, New Music
Concerts and Celtic Arts, James Joyce Centenary Festival, John Cage Weekend:
attended; booksigning of Etrog and Cage 1982 (January 28, Edwards Books &
Art); performed Roaratorio with Joe
Heaney, singer, Peadar Mercier and Mel Mercier, bodhran, Liam og OFloinn,
uilleann pipes, Paddy Glackin, fiddle, and Seamus Tansey, flute (January 29 and
31, University of Toronto, Convocation Hall); read Writing for the Fourth Time through Finnegans Wake (January 30,
morning, University of Toronto, Convocation Hall, followed by question period);
introduced 70th birthday concert with Freeman
Etudes (eight, Paul Zukofsky), Sixteen
Dances (conducted by Zukofsky) and Third
Construction (Nexus, also performed on January 29 and 31) (January 30,
Walter Hall); interviewed by John Kraglund, William Littler, Matthew Parfitt,
and Stephen Riggins (Cage/Kraglund 1982; Cage/Littler 1982; Cage/Parfitt 1982;
Corbeil 1982; Dubin 1982; Kasemets 1982; Kraglund 1982a; Kraglund 1982b;
Kraglund 1982c; Littler 1982a; Littler 1982b; Parfitt 1982; Riggins
1982; Skala
1982).
February 10 (or 11)-12, 1982 (two- or three-day
visit). Tuscaloosa, Alabama, University of Alabama. A University of Alabama
ensemble performed Etcetera; Erik
Satie, two compositions for ensemble; and Christian Wolff, Nines; concluded with open forum; read Composition in Retrospect (February 12, morning) and three other
lectures (Lanier 1982; Roosevelt 1982; Stevenson, T. 1982).
February 19, 1982. New York, Experimental Intermedia
Foundation: attended concert by Joseph Celli (oboe), Malcolm Goldstein (violin,
voice), and David Moss (percussion, voice) (Sandow 1982b).
February 25-May 2, 1982. New York, Whitney Museum of
American Art: John Cage: Scores and Prints, one-person exhibition; in
conjunction with the exhibition, S.E.M. Ensemble gave three concerts with music
by Cage (March 31, April 1, and April 2) (Ashbery 1982; Charles 1982).
February 28, 1982. New York. Letter to Klaus Schning (Cage/Schning 1984-1985a).
March 1982 or later (see also October 3, 1982). Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art, director Anne DHarnoncourt. John Cage – Scores and Prints, one-person exhibition; traveled to Buffalo, New York, Albright Knox Art Gallery, and Oakland, California, Crown Point Gallery.
March 1-5, 1982. Ro Piedras, Puerto Rico, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Actividades Culturales, Semana John Cage, organized by Francis Schwartz. Attended; presentations by Francis Schwartz, Richard Kostelanetz and Rafael Aponte-Lede; concert of his music by Grupo Nmero 3 [Tres] (Nelson Rivera, Emmanuel "Sunshine" Logroo, Ivn Martnez, Diana Nieves) including Cartridge Music, Branches, Empty Words (March 1, Teatro de la Universidad); workshop on voice and John Cage, Noem Perugia and Daniel Charles (March 2 and 4, mornings, Facultad de Humanidades, Departamento de Msica, Sala de Conciertos); Una noche con John Cage y Daniel Charles; Un encuentro con John Cage. Performed Composition in Retrospect and Writing for the Fourth Time through Finnegans Wake [announced, but replaced by James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet] (March 2, Teatro de la Universidad); participated in forum on the El futuro del arte (The Future of Art) with Daniel Charles, Merce Cunningham, Richard Kostelanetz, David Tudor, Rafael Aponte-Lede, Francis Schwartz, Rosa Luisa Mrquez (March 3, morning, Nuevo Edificio de Pedagogia, Anfiteatro Num. 1 [New Education Building, Amphitheater No. 1]); performed with Merce Cunningham Dance Company (March 4-5, Teatro de la Universidad), Improvisation IV to Fielding Sixes; Inlets; Yasunao Tone, Geography and Music to Roadrunners (March 4); Improvisation III to Duets; Inlets; David Tudor, Phonemes to Channels/Inserts (annouced; perhaps replaced by