John Cage, Credo in US

• John Kasica, Player 1
• Thomas Stubbs, Player 2
• Vera Parkin, Player 3
• Henry Claude, Player 4

Morton Feldman, Samuel Beckett,
Words and Music

• Jennifer Nitchman, Flute I
  Nadine Hur, Flute II
  John Kasica, Vibraphone
  Vera Parkin, Piano
  Kristin Ahlstrom, Violin
  Kathleen Mattis, Viola
  Anne Fagerburg, Cello
  Bruce Longworth & Gary Wayne Barker, Readers
  
  Susanna Malkki, Conductor
  

Morton Feldman shared a fairly close friendship with the writer Samuel Beckett, whose poetry is used in Feldman's piece Samuel Beckett, Words and Music. It is a personal homage to the writer's work and a document of the shared artistic philosophies that allowed Beckett and Feldman to develop such a close friendship.

John Cage, who was also a close friend of Feldman, had long been fascinated by the idea of random occurrences and in his Credo in US makes use of live radio or pre-selected recordings for the first time. At prescribed intervals, the radio is switched on or the volume is turned up on the recording which has been playing since the beginning of the piece. As a result, no two performances of the work are ever the same.