I was trying to check the wording of this piece this afternoon, and found two alternative versions on the Internet (nothing new there, then). My memory is that there were "Some" very old grasshoppers, but there are more occurrences of "Most". Was the work revised? Which is it in the original, "Some" or "Most"?

Thanks autoharp. Poor Margaret Leng Tan has to make do with just the solo cricket in her recording of Cage's Sonatas and Interludes.

"He who attends to the catalogue of flies published in most fishing books, will find himslf perplexed and confounded ... "

                                                                                                Sporting Mag. Oct. 1823

Ah, thanks for that, autoh. I was a little frustrated that Bryn's original question seemed so specifically directed at people who'd already know what he was talking about that he didn't even provide the whole quotation, but you've said enough to enable me more or less to work it out for myself.

One more question I'd be interested to know the answer to: When was this Anthology published? I hadn't realised Jackson MacLow had collaborated with Young; I thought of him as a much more recent phenomenon (probably because I first discovered him in connection with Ferneyhough ...).

Added Brownie points for any more information either of you might feel inclined to give beyond that. It does all sound very interesting.

I don't think you had arrived on the scene by then autoharp, but Death Chant was included in the "Roger Smalley Memorial Concert" at St. John's Smith Square.

t_i_n, Jackson Mac Low was born in 1922 and was also ivolved with the Fluxus movement. I thought something of his was included in the Cage/Knowles "Notations", and a quick flick through reveals that it's his "Hare Krishna Gatha 3 (In memoriam: A. J. Muste)" which is illustrated therein.

Damn it. What's up you you musicologists these days? I included the full title as the thread's, didn't I?