| Category: | Musical composition |
| Dated: | 1943, New York City |
| Instrumentation: | Prepared piano |
| Duration: | 4' |
| Premiere and performer(s): | Probably April 23, 1944 at the 92nd Street Y in New York City with Sarah Malament playing the piano and recitation of a poem by Langston Hughes |
| Dedicated to: | --- |
| Choreography: | Pearl Primus |
| Published: | Edition Peters 66763 © 1977 by Henmar Press. Also published in "John Cage - Prepared Piano Music, Volume 1 ¤ 1940-47", Edition Peters 67886a © 2000 |
| Manuscript: | Score (holograph, signed, in ink with annotations in unidentified hand in pencil - 5 p.) in New York Public Library |
| In Our Spring Will Come Cage uses prepared as well as unprepared tones, giving the composition
an even more unusual effect. The materials used as preparations are bamboo strips, screws, nuts, bolts and a hook screw.
The published version was edited by Richard Bunger (with Cage's approval). It is a lively and rhythmically intense
work in a kind of rondo form. |