[silence] "Postcard from Heaven" Coming Soon!

[Daniel Wolf]

I'm very pleased to hear about this recording.  Just one small anecdote 
about the piece: after composing it, Cage described it as a piece for 
_male_ harpists, with his rationale that "there were no female angels".  
At dinner at Alvin Lucier's house in '88, aside from being struck by the 
corniness of the angels-with-harps image, I objected strongly to Cage 
about this, noting that angels, being immortal, did not reproduce, and 
thus characterizing angels as one sex or the other was innacurate. The 
names of bibilical angels were indeed male, but that was a cultural and 
linguistic convention that was not sustained by angelology.  I don't 
know if Cage ever formally required male harpists or ever rescinded this 
requirement, but I think it remains an interesting point.

Daniel Wolf