Project description

Includes factsheets and multiple drafts of the project description.

15 items

Julie Lazar correspondence with John Cage

Includes Lazar's letters to Cage concerning the development of Rolywholyover.

3 items

Checklists

Includes exhibition checklists, a checklist of Cage scores, Museumcircle checklist, Cage visual works checklist, ephemera checklist, flat file checklist, artist list, as well as a composer and manuscript checklist.

41 items

Loan letters-drafts

15 items

Loan correspondence-general, 1991-1994

82 items

Loan correspondence-Achenbach Collection

2 items

Loan correspondence-Roeder Gallery

22 items

Loan correspondence regarding Mark Tobey

14 items

Initial responses to loan requests

22 items

Lender checklists

10 items

Museumcircle lender checklists

3 items

Loan agreements, A-Z

Arranged alphabetically.

ca. 0.75 linear ft.

Loan correspondence and agreements for flat files

14 items

Loans requested from MOCA's permanent collection

11 items

Loan requests denied

24 items

Budget

14 items

General correspondence, 1990-1995

61 items

Internal correspondence, 1992-1993

Primarily memos and correspondence sent to Lazar.

22 items

Internal team's notes

Includes memos between members of the MOCA team that worked on Rolywholyover.

44 items

Correspondence-Merce Cunningham Foundation, 1990-1992

11 items

Resource/contact list

Includes contract information of people and institutions with relevant information on works to be loaned to Rolywholyover.

8 items

Catalog description

7 items

Catalog-essay reprints

14 items

Catalog-"Walden" text

1 item

Citycircus correspondence, 1991-1993

Correspondence with local cultural institutions regarding participation in "Citycircus," citywide performances and events related to the Rolywholover exhibition.

9 items

Citycircus schedules

Schedules of cultural events related to Rolywholyover.

29 items

Citycircus meetings

12 items

Program notes

Programs from Citycircus and other Rolywholyover events.

22 items

Correspondence-Long Beach Opera Citycircus "Europera" performance, 1993

Correspondence and notes regarding Long Beach Opera's performance of Cage's "Europera."

9 items

Exhibition display and content

Description of exhibition's content and how it was to be displayed.

5 items

Installation instructions for exhibition and its programmed music

Includes diagrams of galleries and instructions for chance-determined display of art and accompanying music.

14 items

Correspondence and installation instructions concerning "It Is About To Sound"

MOCA commissioned from CalArts the "It Is About To Sound" interactive mobile audio workstation. The soundstation provided Rolywholyover participants the opportunity to learn about John Cage's strategies for composing music, including chance-operations. Correspondence includes issues raised as to the licensing of music to be used for the soundstation.

43 items

Facilities report

1 item

Photographs of exhibition

17 items

Attendance reports

22 items

Research-biographies of John Cage

2 items

Research-Cage obituaries

2 items

Research-Cage bibliography

1 item

List of Cage compositions, 1988-1992

2 items

Research-books cited by Cage

1 item

Research-macrobiotic diet

1 item

Research-transcription of audiotaped conversation between Cage and Joan Retallack, Sept. 1990

1 item

Research-transcription of audio taped conversation between Cage, Julie Lazar, and others, Mar. 1992

3 items

Research-Cage correspondence with Norman O. Brown

Includes an essay or lecture by Brown.

13 items

Research-Cage/Galka Scheyer correspondence

3 items

Research-miscellaneous

Includes Cage's I Ching essay.

7 items

Research-correspondence with Naomi Sawelson-Gorse

Includes notes to Julie Lazar from Bacon Library archivist Sawelson-Gorse.

2 items

Research-slide request correspondence

29 items

Research-correspondence with Rugg Road Papers

Includes correspondence concerning edible paper created by Cage for Rugg Road.

6 items

Research-Heinz-Klaus Metzger writings

3 items

Research-career chronologies of composer/musicians

Includes information about composers and musicians featured in the exhibition.

1 item

Research-index of writings about artists/composers in the exhibition

1 item

Research-miscellaneous

7 items

Press releases and The Contemporary

27 item

Media coverage

32 items

Press and publicity correspondence, 1993

32 items

Signage and wall text for video and film

4 items

Gallery guides

4 items

Printed ephemera

5 items

Citycircus graphics

1 item

Acknowledgements

2 items

Opening events

17 items

Catalog distribution lists

6 items

Exhibition title cards

2 items

Education programs

23 items

Toll-free phone number for exhibition

9 items

Bookstore selections

Items carried by MOCA bookstore during the exhibition.

2 items

Special John Cage events not held at MOCA

7 items

Tour-advance book

9 items

Tour schedule

15 items

Tour-Menil Collection

Includes general checklists, "Museumcircle" information, correspondence, invitations, and guestbook.

94 items

Tour-Guggenheim Museum

Includes checklists, "Museumcircle" correspondence, invitations, and printed matter.

141 items

Tour-Art Tower Mito, Japan

Includes checklists and correspondence.

129 items

Tour-Yomiuri Shimbun correspondence

Includes correspondence with newspaper.

32 items

Tour-Philadelphia Museum of Art

Includes checklists, "Museumcircle" information, correspondence, and printed ephemera.

116 items

Tour-general correspondence

40 items