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Lecture on the weather

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Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person.	Notated music	Supervised use	JPB 95-3 Folder 505	Performing Arts Research Collections - Music

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12 parts ([154] leaves); 28 cm.

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Typescript, signed in ink.
Materials for an unconducted radio broadcast or theatrical performance; recordings of breeze, rain, and thunder; a film representing lightning by means of briefly projected negatives of drawing by Thoreau; and a preface.
"For 12 speaker-vocalists (or instrumentalists), preferably American men who have become Canadian citizens, each using his own sound system given an equalization distinguishing it from the others."
"...I have chosen to work again with the writings of Henry David Thoreau. Those excerpts which are used...were obtained by means of I Ching chance operations from Walden, from the Journal, and from the Essay on civil disobedience." -- from prerface.
Commissioned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in observance of the bicentennial of the United States of America.
Dated: Stony Point, N.Y., September 1975.
Recordings by Maryanne Amacher; film by Luis Frangella.

Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 505

OCLC

NYPG96-C127

Author

Cage, John.

Title

Lecture on the weather / John Cage.

Imprint

1975.

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Amacher, Maryanne.

Frangella, Luis.

Thoreau, Henry David, 1817-1862.

Research Call Number

JPB 95-3 Folder 505 Public service copy

JPB 94-24 Folder 443 Originals -- Permission required