Seventy-Four



Category: Musical composition
Dated: March 1992, New York City
Instrumentation: Orchestra of 74 musicians: 3333 - 4331, 2 pianos, 2 percussionists, harp and strings (14-10-8-8-6)
Duration: 12'
Premiere and performer(s):
Dedicated to: Francis Thorne, Dennis Russell Davies and the American Composers Orchestra
Choreography: ---
Published: Edition Peters 67482 © 1992 by Henmar Press
Manuscript: Galley proof of parts with holograph and manuscript annotations in an unidentified hand (151 lv.), sketches (Holograph, signed, in ink, fax sheet, and computer print-out with holograph annotation - 6 lv. and 1 fax sheet containing a message from Artservices to John Cage concerning the number and kind ofinstruments in the American Composers Orchestra, and also containing holograph notations. The other leaf is computer print-out of time-brackets - 2 lv.) all in New York Public Library


"Orchestral parts without score to be played with video clock without conductor. Single notes in flexible time-brackets...There should be the usual imperfection of tuning perhaps slightly exaggerated so that the music is microtonal..." -- from performance notes.