Two2
for two
pianos. The Complete John Cage Edition, Vol. 39. Rob Haskins,
piano 1; Laurel Karlik Sheehan, piano 2. Liner notes by Rob Haskins. 2008.
mode 193.
Between 1987 and his death in 1992, John Cage completed forty-eight compositions
that have come to be known as the Number pieces. The term derives from
the fact that the titles of these compositions consist of the number of
players required, written out as a word. When the same number of players
was required for a subsequent composition, an Arabic numeral was added
as a superscript. Thus the composition under consideration here, Two2,
properly read as "two for the second time," is the second piece in
the series requiring two performers. It was composed in 1989.
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