<div style="color:black;font: 12pt Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
<style>@font-face
{font-family:Times;
panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-alt:"Times Roman";
mso-font-charset:77;
mso-generic-font-family:roman;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face
{font-family:Helv;
panose-1:0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;
mso-font-alt:Helvetica;
mso-font-charset:77;
mso-generic-font-family:swiss;
mso-font-format:other;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face
{font-family:Cambria;
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;
mso-font-alt:"Times New Roman";
mso-font-charset:0;
mso-generic-font-family:auto;
mso-font-pitch:variable;
mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{mso-style-parent:"";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:Helvetica;
mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;}a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{font-family:"Times New Roman";
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;
text-underline:single;}a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-noshow:yes;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;
text-underline:single;}p
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
mso-pagination:widow-orphan;
font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Times;
mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;
mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;
mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";}span.subject
{mso-style-name:subject;}span.addresswsitem
{mso-style-name:"address wsitem";}span.addressdispform
{mso-style-name:addressdispform;}div.Section1
{page:Section1;}</style>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="subject">I thought you might find this interesting</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="subject">Please reply<font size="3"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> to this email,</font></font> to pniblock@compuserve.com</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="subject"> </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="subject"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">John Cage's Empty Words</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:28.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span class="addressdispform"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt">From:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>Joseph Celli</span></b></span><span class="addresswsitem"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt"> (josephcelli99@gmail.com)</span></b></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span style="font-size:22.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> </span></b></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helv">This Friday evening a 12 hour streamed performance </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helv">of John Cage's Empty Words from Wesleyan University,
Connecticut</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helv">stay up & drink some coffee! We did the complete </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helv">American Premiere in 1981 in Hartford as well as </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Helv">25 NPR stations. </span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Helv;mso-bidi-font-family:Helvetica"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv">WHAT'S
IN MIND IS TO STAY UP ALL NIGHT READING</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv">From
the evening of April 30 into the morning of May 1, Stuart Wheeler will perform
John Cage's 12-hour overnight piece Empty Words. Cage composed this in the
1970s by fragmenting and collaging language from Henry David Thoreau's 14
volumes of journals. The piece is divided into four sections, each two and a
half hours long with 30-minute intermissions. It begins with a variety of large
and small units of language (phrases, words, syllables and letters) and
steadily removes the larger units until the final section (timed to begin
precisely at dawn) where only single letters and silences remain. Cage thought
of this as "a transition from language to music."</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv">The
performance will take place over Zoom; all times are in Eastern Standard
Time. It's a slumber party, so you're encouraged to put it on, stay up as late
as you want, take a nap, go to sleep, wake up. At dawn, open your windows and
doors to let in the sounds from the outside world.</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv">Pre-concert
talk by Stuart Wheeler on Thursday April 29 at 4:30 PM</span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv"><a href="https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwesleyan.zoom.us%2Fj%2F95280976520%3Fpwd%3DWVNneElOQkZHVGNMLzdUbm5CY3dvZz09&sa=D&ust=1614350112894000&usg=AOvVaw112nSUIa_S1NMXDI1UPK0w"><span style="color:windowtext">https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/95280976520?pwd=WVNneElOQkZHVGNMLzdUbm5CY3dvZz09</span></a></span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv"> </span></div>
<div><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv">Performance
of Empty Words from Friday April 30 at 8:17 PM to Saturday
May 1 at 7:47 AM</span></div>
<span style="font-size:19.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Helv;mso-fareast-font-family:Cambria;mso-fareast-theme-font:minor-latin;mso-bidi-font-family:"Times New Roman";mso-bidi-theme-font:minor-bidi;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><a href="https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/97102229418?fbclid=IwAR3zRnjHLKWC0np38X9PAHjVBs3h4yEJwvllnUXK36o1Cx3SBnzYqFnzxjA"><span style="color:windowtext">https://wesleyan.zoom.us/j/97102229418</span></a></span>
</div>