John Cage: City Circus, Program IX

New Sounds | Oct 30, 2012

From the New Sounds archives, this is the ninth program in a series celebrating the life and legacy of John Cage, who would have been 100 this year. Every Wednesday until the end of November, we’re bringing you these archival “John Cage: CityCircus” programs. For this show, hear a live studio performance by Margaret Leng Tan of Cage's prepared piano music for a 1950 film about the sculptor Alexander Calder. Plus, music by Erik Satie and more.

PROGRAM # 1056, John Cage/Citycircus, Program IX (First aired on 7/06/1994)

ARTIST(S)	RECORDING	CUT(S)	SOURCE
Margaret Leng Tan	Live at WNYC, July 1994.	Burgess Meredith/John Cage: "Works of Calder" [17:00]	This performance not commercially available. The film score appears on Mode Records 106 www.moderecords.com
Margaret Leng Tan & Darynn Zimmer	Live at WNYC, July 1994.	Erik Satie "Je Te Veux" [7:00]	This performance not commercially available.
John Cage/ Margaret Leng Tan	Daughters of the Lonesome Isle	Bacchanale [8:00]	New Albion 70 www.newalbion.com
The Barton Workshop	Plays John Cage	Five, excerpt [3:00]	Et Cetera #KTC 3002 Available at Amazon.com, Emusic.com, iTunes.
Jackson MacLow	Open Secrets	Phoneme Dance In Memoriam John Cage [5:00]	Xi Recordings XI #110. Experimental Intermedia Available at Amazon.com

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