America was promises



Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1940
Instrumentation: Speaking voice and piano (four hands)
Duration:
Premiere and performer(s): May 7, 1940 at the Cornish School in Seattle, performed by John Cage and Doris Dennison, piano and Gerard Van Steenbergen, narrator. Dance performed by Bonnie Bird and an ensemble of sixteen students
Dedicated to:
Choreography: Bonnie Bird
Published: ---
Manuscript: unknown


Text by Archibald MacLeish ("America was Promises"). Location of the score is unknown.

Sources: Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties; David W. Patterson (Ed.): John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention (1933-1950)