| Once when I was in High School, my longtime mentor and friend, Mr. C were going to collaborate and have me "perform" John Cage's "piano" piece 4:33. In case anyone is wondering what this is, basically a person sits at a piano, lifts the cover from the keys, sits there in silence fo 4:33, closes the lid and then leaves. The idea is that the music is created from the ambient sounds in the room. Anyway, my friend is an accomplished classical pianist and were were going to arrange to have another piano in the room and while I was sitting there placidly, he was going to rip out either a Mozart or Mendelsohn piano sonata on the other piano. Unfortuantely, we never did it.
In my opinion, the bizarre works by John Cage are nothing more than novelties with the sole purpose for giving himself notoriety as a composer that he would have otherwise been unable to garner for himself with real compositions, but that is just an opinion, of course.
__________________ Patrick Gleason
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