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Work Title Theatre Piece (1952) |
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Alt. Title Black Mountain Happening |
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Date Composed in 1952. Premiered in Black Mountain, N.C., Summer, 1952. |
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Ensemble Type Variable |
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Work Length Indeterminate |
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Instrumentation For an indeterminate number of performers, potentially involving music, dance, poetry, film etc. |
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Comments This work, often cited as the first Happening, was arranged by John Cage, and including poetry by M.C. Richards and Charles Olson, as well as a film by Nicholas Chernovitch, and was performed by Cage, Richards, Olson, and Chernovitch, as well as R. Buckminster Fuller, Merce Cunningham, and Robert Rauschenberg. |