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Author: Chris P
Date: 2006-01-07 04:13
Like most experimental, modernist or minimalist pieces I suppose - too long and tedious by half, and lost interest after hearing the second chord in the sequence. Shame there's no performer - so why not have John Cage's skeleton performing the piece (could even be an entry for this year's Turner prize as well - let's see if tracy emin's reading this)?
It'll be the last work he does in any form, and at least he won't complain if it goes on for too long.
And while I'm still weilding the axe, how many Philip Glasses does it take to make a melody? And does each one have a different pitch when filled with different amounts of water?
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Author: EEBaum
Date: 2006-01-07 07:53
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(had Symphony #2 in my head as I wrote that)
-Alex
www.mostlydifferent.com
Post Edited (2006-01-07 07:54)
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Author: Tony Pay ★2017
Date: 2006-01-07 11:03
We discussed this piece (and other works by Cage including 4'33" and the Clarinet Sonata) fairly extensively when it began in 2001, beginning with:
http://test.woodwind.org/Databases/Klarinet/2001/09/000697.txt
My own view is that the piece is an (admittedly extreme) part of what all art is: namely an attempt to communicate that what we normally think of as 'ourselves' can be experienced as a part of something else that is larger. (People like or dislike that according to their opinion of the 'larger' something else, of course.)
So in this case, I celebrate it -- again.
Tony
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