Merce and John at Lincoln Center

Photo: Cage-Cunningham oven manual, John Cage Trust.

Tomorrow, the Lincoln Center Festival, which has been very strong on music this year, will present Merce Fair, a daylong tribute to the late Merce Cunningham. Needless to say, the music of John Cage and allied figures will figure strongly in the proceedings, which will go from ten in the morning until ten at night. (At the Lincoln Center page above you can download a handy pdf of the complete schedule.) Starting at 3:50PM, the spectacular Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center will be the scene of a series of Musicians' Concerts, with work of John King, David Behrman, Alvin Lucier, David Tudor, Christian Wolff, and, of course, Cage himself. Selections from Cunningham and Cage's manuscripts are on display in the Archive Room, courtesy of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.