The Seasons (Cage)

This article is about the Cunningham-Cage ballet. For the Petipa-Glazunov ballet, see The Seasons (ballet). For Jerome Robbins' ballet, see The Four Seasons (ballet). For other uses, see The Seasons (disambiguation).
The Seasons
ChoreographerMerce Cunningham
MusicJohn Cage
Premiere17 May 1947 (1947-05-17)
Ziegfeld Theater, New York, NY
Original ballet companyBallet Society
DesignIsamu Noguchi

The Seasons is a ballet with music by John Cage and choreography by Merce Cunningham, first performed in 1947. It was Cage's first piece for orchestra[1] and also the first to use what Cage later called the gamut technique, albeit in an early form.[2][3]

  1. ^ Pritchett, 40
  2. ^ Pritchett, 40-45
  3. ^ Nicholls, 189