James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet A" by John Cage has been praised by the jury for the international Karl-Szuka Prize 1982 as "exceptional example of the radio art". For it's "nuanced translation of sprachkomödiantischer virtuosity" Klaus Reichert in 1983 auszgezeichnet the prestigious Wieland Translation Prize. In the series Ars Acustica WERGO has now the German and English live performance of "James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet" published - 1987 "NachtCageTag" of WDR Cologne on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the composer, and in 1990 in prominent guests - New York at WDR Sound Art Festival "2nd Acustica International" was added: uva John Cage, Klaus Reichert, Christian Wolff, Richard Kostelanetz, Hans Otte, Mauricio Kagel, Alvin Curran, John Cage's poetic-philosophical speech piece is based on memories of his decades-long study of the works of Joyce, Duchamp and Satie. The composer leads the listener in a zen and Dada world who meet several still living and dead ghosts like a big family party on an imaginary stage by him. A "narrator" leads as Orpheus Theatre this spring Imaginaire lively spirits that have influenced the art of the 20th century - as John Cage himself. John Cage: "The play is not a Alphabet It's a fantasy I wanted to speak to remove from our experience of modernity, the punctuation in order to illustrate by some as her own exciting agility.