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  • John Cage

  • The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942)

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For Voice and Closed Piano

  • voc + pf
  • Voice
  • 2 min
  • James Joyce
    • 6th June 2026, MERKIN HALL Kaufman Music Center Abraham Goodman House, New York, United States of America
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Programme Note

This work uses a text drawn from Finnegans Wake by James Joyce, which Cage found profoundly inspiring. The voice uses only 3 pitches, and vocal production is to be without vibrato, as in folksong. The piano is closed, and the pianist taps on the instrument’s body with fingers or knuckles.