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Learn about the dances choreographed by Merce Cunningham such as John Cage's Roaratorio and David Tudor Sounddance, both inspired by the Irish author James Joyce

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The Colosseum, Rome, Italy. Giant amphitheatre built in Rome under the Flavian emperors. (ancient architecture; architectural ruins)

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Queen Elizabeth II addresses at opening of Parliament. (Date unknown on photo, but may be 1958, the first time the opening of Parliament was filmed.)

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Roaratorio

work by Cunningham and Cage

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discussed in biography of Cage

In John Cage
…music of Erik Satie; and Roaratorio (1979), an electronic composition utilizing thousands of words found in James Joyce’s novel Finnegans Wake.
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