Cage-The City Wears a Slouch Hat (S)-P/Voice actors

John Cage's The City Wears a Slouch Hat premiered on May 31, 1942, a broadcast of WBBM radio station (Columbia Broadcasting System in Chicago), as part of their "Columbia Workshop" series. Performance by Xenia Cage, Cilia Amidon, Stuart Lloyd, Ruth Hartman, Claire Oppenheim and John Cage conducting.

In 1941 Cage got a commission for CBS Radio to write music for a radio play. Initially Cage composed work, based on his ideas using electronic sound effects, assuming this could be realized in the CBS studios. A week before the radio broadcast, Cage went over to make the recordings, but since the technician told him it could not be done in such a short time, Cage had to compose another work, just four days before its broadcast. The original manuscript is probably lost.
The instruments are including: tin cans, muted gongs, woodblocks, alarm bells, tam tam, bass drum, Chinese tom tom, bongos, cowbells, maracas, claves, ratchett, pod rattle, foghorn, thundersheet, sound-effect recordings, etc.

The script sketches a surreal story on a man named 'The Voice' who wanders around a big city, meeting various characters and circumstances.
The play was directed by Les Mitchell. Actors were Les Tremayne, Madelon Grayson, Forrest Lewis, Jonathan Hole, Frank Dane and John Larkin.

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