Telephones and Birds



Category: Musical composition
Dated: 1977
Instrumentation: Three performers. Instructions for using telephone recordings and recordings of bird calls to compile a chance composition.
Duration: 30'
Premiere and performer(s): January 18, 1977 at the Minskoff Theatre in New York City, with the choreography, performed by Merce Cunningham and Company.
Dedicated to:
Choreography: 'Travelogue' by Merce Cunningham
Published: Edition Peters 66689 © 1977 by Henmar Press.
Manuscript: Score (holograph in ink - 8 p.); Score (galley proof of the instructions, signed; Lacking numerical tables - 4 p.); Draft of instructions (holograph in ink - 1 p.); Sketches (holograph in pencil and ink, partially typed - 3 p.); Sketches (holograph in ink - 1 folder), all in New York Public Library.