Located in the UK
Located in the USA
Located in Europe
- John Cage
Renga (1976)
((variable instrumentation))- Henmar Press, Inc. (World)
For Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in observance of the bicentennial of the USA and also for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia· Orchestra. This commission was made possible by funds from the National Endowment on the Arts.
Programme Note
Score (361 drawings by Thoreau sometimes superimposed) and 78 Parts (for any instruments and/or voices).
This piece may be played alone or (as an occasional piece) with Apartment House 1776 or some other musicircus (live or recorded) appropriate to another occasion that the Bicentennial of the USA, an occasion, for example, such as the birth or death of another musically productive nation or person, or the birthday of a society concerned with some aspect of creative production of sound, e.g. birds, marine animals, weather changes, earthquakes, or plants, copyright restrictions permitting. This work comprises 361 drawings by Henry David Thoreau, distributed in systems using the 5-7-5-7-7 structure of Japanese Renga poetry. This graphic notation is to be interpreted by the performers.