The Seasons (Cage)
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This article is about the Cunningham-Cage ballet. For the Petipa-Glazunov ballet, see The Seasons (ballet). For Jerome Robbins' ballet, see The Four Seasons (ballet). For other uses, see The Seasons (disambiguation).
The Seasons is a ballet with music by John Cage and choreography by Merce Cunningham, first performed in 1947. It was Cage's first piece for orchestra[1] and also the first to use what Cage later called the gamut technique, albeit in an early form.[2][3]
Quick Facts The Seasons, Choreographer ...
The Seasons | |
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Choreographer | Merce Cunningham |
Music | John Cage |
Premiere | 17 May 1947 (1947-05-17) Ziegfeld Theater, New York, NY |
Original ballet company | Ballet Society |
Design | Isamu Noguchi |
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