The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs
Posted in This Website on Apr 2nd, 2020
From Wikipedia: The song was commissioned by singer Janet Fairbank, who later became known for pioneering contemporary music. Cage chose to set a passage from page 556 of Finnegans Wake, a book he bought soon after its publication in 1939. The composition is based, according to Cage himself, on the impressions received from the passage.[2] The Wonderful […]