Souvenir



Category: Musical composition
Dated: New York City, September 1983
Instrumentation: Organ Solo. Yvar Mikhashoff made an arrangement for piano
Duration: indeterminate
Premiere and performer(s): Official first performance was on June 29, 1984 at St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco during the American Guild of Organists National Convention. Performed by John Rose. Apparently the work had been performed previously.
Dedicated to: for Dr. Fred Tulan
Choreography: ---
Published: Edition Peters 66988 © 1983 by Henmar Press
Manuscript: Score (galley proof with holograph and copyist's emendations of first page - 1 p. Folder 604) in New York Public Library


A Work composed on commission of the American Guild of Organists. They requested a work similar to 'Dream' (1948).
The Published score consists of a title page and 2 pages with music in traditional notation (6 systems per page). Dynamics are indicated. Within phrases tones may be freely sustained, manually of with pedal. Phrases are to be seperated by rests.

Sources: Published score; New York Public Library online catalog; Paul van Emmerik's 'A John Cage Compendium'