| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | Fall 1932 |
| Instrumentation: | Piano (and voice?) |
| Duration: | Approximately 10' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | November 1932; Harry Hay, basso cantante; John Cage, piano; Santa Monica Women's Club, California |
| Dedicated to: | --- |
| Choreography: | --- |
| Published: | --- |
| Manuscript: | Holograph (11 p.) and Sketches (6 p.) heirs Harry Hay (?). Copies in New York Public Library (JPB 94-24 folder 1, 927) |
| Some lines have English text from the book of Ecclesiastes written above staff. Sketches consist of 4 parts:
The Preacher; The Wind; The Rivers; Labour. Holograph may be incomplete. The composition was improvised at the piano. Sources: Paul van Emmerik: Thema's en Variaties; Paul van Emmerik's A John Cage Compendium; New York Public Library online catalog |