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Manhattan's Kaufmann Concert Hall, where the studious audiences are frequently shell-shocked by modern scores, last week resounded to the bombastic New York premiere of Music Walk with Dancer by avant-garde U.S. Composer John Cage. Composer Cage's electronic nightmare lasted ten minutes and required the services of Cage himself, Pianist David Tudor and Dancer Jill Johnston. Occasionally reading directions from slips of paper, they scurried from one short-wave radio to another, twiddling dials and assaulting the audience with a drumfire of rattles, bangs, pops and nonsense syllables roared into a microphone. Occasionally they turned...
...first time this season with her "mixed wild animals" - a cage full of lions and tigers whom she wrestles, makes jump through flaming hoops, teases, and rides bareback around the cage. Three years ago Evelyn was mauled by an irate lion when she was appearing at a Shriners' circus in Chattanooga. Many circus people wondered if she could ever do the act again. Last week, on opening night, she had been in the cage only three minutes before a lion took a swipe at her. Evelyn, armed only with the traditional chair, got him under control and finished...
Only when she went back to her dressing room beneath the arena did she discover that she was bleeding. This did not faze the girl who has spent most of her post-pubescent years in the lions' cage. Said she: "God, those cats are wonderful. They were so good to me tonight...
...Composer Cage, a real person as Zak was not, works in much the same way. Before Music Walk began, he had no idea how it would sound, had determined only that it would last ten minutes, involve certain props and three performers doing more or less as they pleased. It was a prime sample of what students of the avant-garde call "indeterminate" music, i.e., music that is based on almost pure chance...
Sweet Bird of Youth (MGM) messed up its cage for a season on Broadway, and has now been plumed with Metrocolor...