Hey, that rains beginning to come down… Commissioned by CBS Columbia Workshop to accompany a radio play by Beat poet/writer Kenneth Patchen--a surreal script centered around a mysterious drifter known as The Voice and his encounters with various characters of the urban landscape. Cages music aptly fits Patchens texts, scored for sound orchestra of 5 percussionists along with live and recorded sound effects, revealing Cages gift for orchestrating the timbres of percussion. One can only imagine what unsuspecting families, seated around the radio for an evenings entertainment, made of this bizarre script and rambunctious music in 1942!
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:35:31 +0000
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