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Hardback or Cased Book. Condizione: New. John Cage Writer. Book.

Sheet music. Condizione: Brand New. 318 pages. German language. 9.29x6.38x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condizione: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st Printing. Signed. 2 pages. Published in 1990. Rare John Cage collectible piece. A pristine Souvenir Printout of the April 14, 1990 "John Cage: Music of The Spheres" Essay by Bill Marvel, signed by John Cage. The first and only edition. There is no ISBN. The Souvenir Printout is now rare. It is very beautifully printed on archival, thick uncoated stock paper by The Dallas Morning News to the highest standards. In protective plastic sheet with hard board backing. Without DJ, as issued. Presents Bill Marvel's "John Cage: Music of The Spheres" Essay. Published by The Dallas Morning News to announce and celebrate the premiere performance of John Cage's "Seven" as part of The Fifteenth Anniversary Season of the Voices of Change Ensemble. For a pioneering and ground-breaking group exclusively dedicated to new music, in deeply conservative Texas of all places, a truly admirable and moving milestone. Using otherwise conventional instruments (that are sometimes altered), they performed pieces by John Cage, Alexander Chaikovsky, Donald Grantham, and Henry Brant, among other 20th-century composers, over two unforgettable evenings. Cage was, unquestionably, the most influential and celebrated of the present group of composers (who were still living at the time). Aaron Copland and Igor Stravinsky were also performed in a separate concert. The Cage commission, "Seven", is named after the piece's seven instruments (flute, clarinet, percussion, violin, viola, cello, and piano), and marks the unconventional composer's return to conventional Classical Music instruments. "When I was young, you could either follow Stravinsky or Schoenberg. I chose Schoenberg. But if you imitate Schoenberg, what have you got? More Schoenberg. What we have now is an art based on many possibilities instead of one or 32. Our notion of what is beautiful has more windows into it" (John Cage). An absolute "must-have" title for John Cage collectors. This copy of the Souvenir Printout is very boldly and beautifully signed in purple pen-marker by John Cage. It is signed directly on the page itself, not on a tipped-in page. John Cage made a rare appearance for the performance of the piece that he composed for the Ensemble. This title is a late-modern classic. This is the only such signed copy available online and is in especially fine condition: Clean, crisp, and bright. A rare, one-of-a-kind signed copy thus. One of the most important and influential composers of the 20th century. A fine copy. Signed by Author.

Sheet music. Condizione: Brand New. 318 pages. German language. 9.29x6.38x1.10 inches. In Stock.

Condizione: Very good. New York, October 14, 1976., 1976. Very good. - Over 110 words penned in two columns on his personal 7 inch high by 8-1/2 inch wide ruled "Message/Reply" stationery. John Cage writes to Sydney Cowell, Henry Cowell's widow, about Henry Cowell's compositions "Recv enclosed letter from my Japanese composer friend. Located piece (in Ms.) at Lincoln Center. It is actually 2 pieces called Set of Two but one was too difficult and the other was recorded (in Japan?) under the title Prelude for Vn & Hapschd. I have given Kuniharu Akiyama's address to Mr. Jackson." He goes on to indirectly refer to his own compositions "Renga" and "Apartment House 1776" which were performed in Boston: "The Boston piece went very well. Seiji was marvelous. Now must wk with Boulez on it. Singers were great." Signed "John". There are minor annotations along the top edge in an unidentified hand and staple holes at top left. Else, near fine. John Cage's compositions "Renga" and "Apartment House 1776" were performed simultaneously by the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Seiji Ozawa on September 29, 1976. Boulez performed the works with the New York Philharmonic on November 5th of that year. The Japanese avant-garde composer Kuniharu Akiyama (1929-1996) was also a music critic and a poet. He was a founding member of the Jikken Kobo group of avant-garde artists. The American avant-garde composer John Cage (1912-1992) was a pioneer in electroacoustic music and the unconventional use of instruments. An artist and music theorist, he was Merce Cunningham's lover and influential in the development of modern dance. Henry Cowell and Arnold Schoenberg were both his teachers. Henry Cowell's wife, Sidney Robertson Cowell (1903-1995) was a pianist and an American ethnomusicologist and collector of folk songs.