October 26ths

10/26/1933

From 803 Griffith Park Bvld in Santa Monica, John Cage writes to Henry Cowell. He is currently working on the Sonata for Two Voices.

10/26/1997, Sunday

Worked on “Dome City” concept idea.

[Dome City was ultimately released in October 2006]. 

This is a song idea based on these two disparate entries. Ultimately, it could be antiphonal in some way, with the words replaced, yet retaining the original roots to Cage. That address in Santa Monica no longer exists. Even in 50 years an urban landscape can be unrecognizable. The dome city concept was conceived and prototyped by Buckminster Fuller in 1959. Fuller and Cage collaborated in the summer of 1948 at Black Mountain College. Interesting: The Finishing School: "John Cage and Merce [Cunningham] and I had breakfast every morning together out under the trees. And we really did have a very great deal of fun because I spent that summer with them on a fun schematic new school, and I called it “the finishing school.” We would finish anything. In other words, we would really break down all of the conventional ways of approaching school. And “the finishing school” was going to be a caravan, and we would travel from city to city." [More]

803 Griffith Park Boulevard (10-26-1933) by meta4s

10/26/2002, Saturday

Went to peace rally in Federal Plaza at noon. Took lots of pics. Could be historical. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10/26/2005

Sox win World Series! (Write a fight song—or do songs just become them...) 

Shirley Horn died. It’s interesting to hear her sing and speak—and it sounds identical. Her singing is a good example of the fuzzy boundary between speech and song.