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All Things Cage: John Cage at Wesleyan University, Part 1: Cage’s Address to the Gentlemen of the Wesleyan Glee Club (1960) (Audio)
Tonight’s program for “All Things Cage” is the first of two that will focus on Cage’s time at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, which formally began with the academic year 1960-1961 when Cage served as a fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies. We’ll listen to Cage’s little-known Address to the Gentlemen of the Wesleyan Glee Club, as read by Laura Kuhn, our program’s host, a delightfully whimsical piece composed and presented in 1960. At the end of Kuhn’s reading, we’ll continue this program’s spirit of storytelling with an extended excerpt from Cage’s Indeterminacy: New Aspect of Form in Instrumental and Electronic Music, as performed by Cage and his formidable collaborator, David Tudor, recorded in the 1950s and released in a two-CD box set by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings in 1992.