John Cage: The Wonderful Widow of eighteen springs (1942)

______________John Cage 100 (1912-2012)__________ John Cage (1912-1992): The Wonderful Widow of eighteen springs, for voice and percussion (1942) Robert Wyatt, voice Richard Bernas, percussion. Text from Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce. The voice uses only 3 pitches and sings without vibrato like in folksong. The piano is closed, the pianist tapping with fingers or knuckles under the piano, on top of the keyboard lid, on its back or on top of the piano. The music resulted from the impression received on the text. (Fonte: Web). *** The music published in our channel is exclusively dedicated to divulgation purposes and not commercial. This within a program shared to study classic educational music of the 1900's (mostly Italian) which involves thousands of people around the world. If someone, for any reason, would deem that a video appearing in this channel violates the copyright, please inform us immediately before you submit a claim to Youtube, and it will be our care to remove immediately the video accordingly. Your collaboration will be appreciated.