Music by John Cage

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, California
UMS, University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Carnegie Hall
New York, New York
March 2012

New World Symphony
Miami, Florida
February 2013

Director: Yuval Sharon
Music Director: Michael Tilson Thomas
Projection Design: Jason H. Thompson
Set Design: Daniel Hubp
Performance: Joan LaBarbara, Meredith Monk, Jessye Norman

First presented by the San Francisco Symphony, Sharon’s staging of the Song Books offered 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.

Photography courtesy of San Francisco Symphony.