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In 1944 Cage was invited to participate in an exhibit organized by Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst at the Julian Levy Gallery. All works submitted for the exhibit were to relate to the game of chess.
John Cage contributed a painting entitled “Chess Pieces.” The painting contained a music score which the foremost Cage pianist Margaret Leng later transcribed. She described this work as comprised of 22 systems which are complete musical units of 12 bars each. Ms.
Leng subsequently performed the score at the Noguchi Museum in 2005.
“Chess Pieces” are in this performer’s opinion a summation of John Cage’s interests, that is to say, music, visual art and chess.
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