[American Avant-garde] Cage, John. (1912–1992)
Typed Manuscript on Henry Cowell
Four single-spaced typed paragraphs on a single page, signed "John Cage" above the typed line "Copyright c 1964 by John Cage," with 1 pencil correction in the text. Folded twice for mailing, overall very good.The theme of Cage's piece on Cowell is "The Impossible Is the Possible". He writes that in the sixties "advances in technology were paralleled by advances in imagination and vision. Often these did not come together at all." Thus when Cowell wrote these pieces [1915-1916] they were impossible to perform. Now they have been performed..."If the one with the difficult rhythms hasn't been, it shortly will be, either by real live musicians or by someone who supplies a computer with the necessary information."
A holograph copy of this m.s. was used as an introduction to the C. F. Peters edition of Cowell's "Quartet Romantic & Quartet Euphometric" and a copy of this edition is included.
Provenance: Dick Higgins of Something Else Press, who was a friend of both men. (4957)
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