[silence] "Postcard from Heaven" Coming Soon!

[Glenn Freeman]

No sexual requirements mentioned in the published score. Cage's  
reference to Heaven is subtle. Ragas and Talas are being played by  
the harpist(s) ... so obviously a different kind of "Heaven" than  
some might be thinking. Does Postcard imply Heaven is located here on  
earth? I believe many will soon find Postcard to an important, yet  
largely unknown, Cage work from this period in Cage's career.

Daniel Wolf wrote:

> 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 know if Cage ever formally required male harpists or ever rescinded  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.

Glenn Freeman
OgreOgress productions
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