| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | Probably around 1940-41 |
| Instrumentation: | Piano |
| Duration: | 2' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | ? |
| Dedicated to: | Sue [Laub] ? |
| Choreography: | Sue [Laub] |
| Published: | --- |
| Manuscript: | Score (holograph, signed - 2 lvs.) at Mills College Library, Oakland, California; A photocopy of this manuscript is located at the New York Public Library (JPB 95-3 Folder 1088). |
| Caption Title: Entrance! The family name in the addition "For Sue [Laub]" is not
decipherable, but resembles the given name. The New York Public Library catalog mentions: "In the summers of 1940 and 1941, John Cage was on the dance faculty of Mills College (Oakland, Calif.). He composed this for Sue Laub, a student at the time, probably in 1940". This work does not occur in any other worklist. It contains repetitions in the style of his other danceworks of this period, as well as fragments similar to his works of the lates thirties. A composition with the same title was written in 1942 (Opening Dance), but this was choreographed by Gertrude Lippincott and written in a period where Cage was not living in Oakland. This might be the same work. Source: Mills College Library, Oakland, California |