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John Cage’s five-part opera series juxtaposes fragments of earlier operas with indeterminate music and staging. Europeras I and II use 19 singers and the full resources of an opera house, with performers guided by projected clocks. III and IV feature gramophones, and V is scored for a pianist, two singers, lighting, and tape.
The Seasons is a ballet with music by John Cage and choreography by Merce Cunningham, first performed in 1947. It was Cage's first piece for orchestra and also the first to use what Cage later called the gamut technique, albeit in an early form.
John Cage’s five-part opera series juxtaposes fragments of earlier operas with indeterminate music and staging. Europeras I and II use 19 singers and the full resources of an opera house, with performers guided by projected clocks. III and IV feature gramophones, and V is scored for a pianist, two singers, lighting, and tape.
The Seasons is a ballet with music by John Cage and choreography by Merce Cunningham, first performed in 1947. It was Cage's first piece for orchestra and also the first to use what Cage later called the gamut technique, albeit in an early form.