Idyllic Song



Category: Choreography (by Merce Cunningham)
Dated: 1944
Premiere: November 20, 1944 at Woman's Club, Richmond, Virginia and January 9, 1945 at Hunter Playhouse, New York City.
Dancers: Merce Cunningham
Music: Erik Satie: First movement of Socrate, drame symphonique (1919), arranged by John Cage
Design: Merce Cunningham (costumes)


Cage arranged the other 2 parts of Socrate in 1968. He intended to use this music for a 1969 choreography by Merce Cunningham. Because of copyright problems he composed Cheap Imitation instead for the choreography Second Hand