"There is comfortism in the knowledge that hate on first hearing comes of love by second sight."
   James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

The score consists of 28 unnumbered typewritten pages (including the cover page). In this web version, each box corresponds to a page (except for the cover; this page, and everything on it, may be considered the cover page of the web version). The page ordering is random.

A photocopy (very faint, bad copy) of the score for this piece was turned into guest professor/composer Luciano Berio as the final project for a Music and Theater class he was teaching at Northwestern University. The project received a grade of B.

Dear Glenn,

There are a few parallel fifths and the Xerox machine is out of tune.

Greetings -- Luciano Berio

November 30, 1970

Thomas Willis, Northwestern University professor and, at the time, music critic for the Chicago Tribune performed Theaicfesto in an arrangement for lecturer for a performance art class at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

LECTUTHEAICFESTO
an arrangement for lecturer of THEAICFESTO by Glenn R. Sogge
by Thomas Willis
for the School of the Art Institute
Oct. 30, 1974

ARRANGEMENT (first words):
Forward
The interrelations
"There Is Comfortism. . ." page 2
Nosotros
Art is any
Theatre is the
Much art is
Music can be
Empty contents of
If pianists are
Not more than
A performance may
Ideally, this piece
If vocalists are
The performers may
Musicians, vocalists, readers, dancers, etc.,
The audience may
The only light
Dancers should respond
Throughout the performance area
Small instruments like bamboo flutes
Theaicfesto may also
DEDICATION
"There is Comfortism. . .", for any number of pianos
"There is Comfortism. . .", for any number of pianos, may be performed
THEAICFESTO to be read and/or performed in whole and/or part
The design of
If you are confused

INSTRUCTIONS (to be regarded,as supplementary to those contained
in THEAICFESTO):

There should be an announced starting time, and the lecturer
should appear in the environment for the first time within one minute
of this time. He should not be visible (or even present) beforehand.

He should, upon arrival, discover the absence of some conventional
media apparatus (opaque projector, blackboard, tape recorder,
blackboard, pointer, chalk, eraser, glass of water, etc.) and
insist upon its availability. Only reluctantly will he agree to
proceed without it/them. The intensity and force of his complaint
may vary with circumstances.

It should be apparent that the time thus consumed is being subtracted
from his presentation.

Lawrence Halprin's RSVP mandala should be visible at some point
while the lecturer is speaking.

Klaus Wachsmann's tetrahedron may be included for further
clarification.