Another Cage program, another hour of that gentle voice. Cage gives short introductions to the works as well as general comments on his life. As always, I can promise it's entertaining.
"What mushroom? What leaf?"
As always, governed by the CCL 3.0--Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives. Thanks to the Other Minds Archive and radiom.
John Cage at the DeYoung Museum
Date: May 20, 1971
Item Type: Sound Recording
Duration: 58 min
Event Type: Spoken Word
Program Origin: KPFA
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music New Music Ensemble presented three evenings of music and readings by John Cage at the DeYoung Museum in San Francisco on May 20, 21 and 22, 1971. Here are three readings by John Cage from that first night, after which he briefly speaks about his own music.
Musical Selections: Not Wanting to Say Anything about Marcel -- Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse, Part VI) -- Acrostic: Merce Cunningham.
Genres: Literature; Poetry
Subject: Cunningham, Merce; Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968; Cage, John; Composers; Art, Modern; Literature, Experimental
People: Cage, John
Recording Date: 5/20/1971
(Cage makes reference to works that are performed before and after this, for example his 'Cheap Imitation' and other readings from his Diary...I think only this talk was posted on the OM Archive.)
Rip Specs
KPFA masters (presumably)-->FLAC
downloaded from the OM Archive in lossless format
proof of CCL 3.0 license:
http://radiom.org/detail.php?omid=AM.1971.05.20
http://www.archive.org/details/JohnCage1971-05-20