"Joey Ramone recorded a tribute song to album entitled Caged/Uncaged - A Rock/Experimental Homage to John Cage. Song is The Wonderful Widow Of Eighteen Springs. ... CD contain also tracks by David Byrne, Debbie Harry, Arto Lindsay, Richard Hell, John Zorn with Naked City, Chris Stein, Lee Ranaldo, Ann Magnuson and John Cale, Jello Biafra and Eugene Chadbourne, Lou Reed, Elliott Sharp, Amy Denio and Shelly Hirsch. As an added treat, John Cage himself appears sporadically throughout, in excerpts from a 1969 tape of readings from his book Silence."
RAMONES: JOEY RAMONE ON THE CAGED/UNCAGED
Discogs
YouTube: Caged/Uncaged 1) David Byrne - Cage And The Long Island Expressway (→0:31) 2) David Byrne - Enlightened Whistler (0:31→) 3) Art Lindsay - Proust (4:57→) 4) John Zorn - Verlaine : Part 2 La Bleue (7:41→) 5) David Weinstein and Shelley Hirsh - Cheap Imitation (13:38→) 6) Elliott Sharp - InDET (17:36→) 7) John Cage - John Cage Excerpt #10 (22:11→) 8) John Cage - John Cage Excerpt #11 (22:54→). Joe McGinty, Joey Ramone, Don Yallach / The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, Lee Renaldo / 329 Overtones for John Cage
Hear Joey Ramone Sing a Piece by John Cage Adapted from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
"In 1942, John Cage composed a short piece of music adapted from the text of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake. Titled 'The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs,' the piece was originally commissioned and performed by amateur soprano and socialite Justine Fairbank, and while we don’t have a recording of her performance, we do have Cage’s sheet music (see first page above, or view the entire book here). It is—as one might expect—an unusual piece. It sounds like song, yet isn’t."
Open Culture (Video)
No comments:
Post a Comment