- John Cage
Opening Dance for Sue Laub (1942)
- Henmar Press, Inc. (World)
Programme Note
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 for the Performing Arts catalog states: "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 appear in any other works list. It contains repetitions in the style of other of Cage’s works for dance of this period, as well as fragments similar to his works of the late 1930s. 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. Nonetheless, this might be the same work.