| 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) |