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• Harris, Frank
  Contemporary Portraits (Fourth Series)
  Brentano's, New York, 1923, Cloth, , , Very Good /No Jacket
  
  

  318 pp. Spine very dull with some white stains, else very good, clean and bright inside. The contemporary book sticker of the Gotham Book Mart on rear pastedown. Fascinating biographical essays including Richard Wager, Ivan Turgeniev, Charlie Chaplin, John Tyndal, Ernst Haeckel, Grant Allen, Leonard Merrick, Herbert Trench, Max Beerbohm, Henri Matisse, H. L. Mencken, La Follette, Twain, Gorki, Trotsky, Emma Goldman, Sarah Bernhardt and more.

  

John Cage

The John Cage Trust was established in 1993 as a not-for-profit institution whose mission is to gather together, organize, preserve, disseminate, and generally further the work of the late American composer, John Cage. Its founding trustees were Merce Cunningham, Artistic Director of the Cunningham Dance Company, Anne d'Harnoncourt, Director of the Philadelphia Museum, and David Vaughan, Archivist of the Cunningham Dance Foundation, all long-time Cage friends and associates. Laura Kuhn, who from 1986 to 1992 worked directly with John Cage, serves as both a founding trustee and ongoing Executive Director. In 2008, Anne d'Harnoncourt was replaced by Margarete Roeder, long-time gallerist to both Cage and Cunningham; in 2009, Merce Cunningham was replaced by Melissa Harris, editor-in-chief of Aperture.

MUSIC OF THE DAWN At Sea, October 23, 1907

In far forests" leafy twilight, now is stealing gray dawn's shy light,
And the misty air is tremulous with songs of many a bird;
While from mountain steeps descending, every streamlet's voice is blending
With the anthems of great pine trees, by the breath of daylight stirred.

But I turn from Fancy's dreaming of the green earth, to the gleaming
Of the fluttering wings of morning rushing o"er the jewelled deep;
And the ocean's rhythmic pounding, with each lucent wave resounding,
Seems the music made when God's own hands His mighty harpstrings sweep.