March 2012
San Francisco Symphony; UMS, Ann Arbor; Carnegie Hall, New York; USA
February 2013
New World Symphony, Miami, USA
Music by John Cage
Direction by Yuval Sharon
Music Direction by Michael Tilson Thomas
Projection Design by Jason H. Thompson
Set Design by Daniel Hubp
Performance by Joan LaBarbara, Meredith Monk, Jessye Norman
First presented by the San Francisco Symphony, Sharon’s staging of the Song Books presented a compendium of Cage’s musical ideas: his mini-dramas of intentional actions, both everyday and surreal; songs inspired by Erik Satie and Marcel Duchamp; and the writings of Henry David Thoreau.