This was around 1970-71 as I recall--John Cage the Merce
Cunningham dancers were at Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H. for several
days--they had set up at the basketball court and were there most of the
day--with as I recall large backdrops on wheels by Rauschenberg--screens
that could
Somebody was lucky enough to have lunch with Cage, who visited her Prof.
And she said he was absolutely uninteresting and boring, can you imagine
that ?
Heiko:
Some people's ideas of boring are boring.
After 20 years of friendship and encouragements
(with dinners and various "get-togethers" with
him), I can readily say that John was not boring.
He wasn't the kind of "slap-you-on-the-back"
"hardee-har-har" kinda fella. His conversations
were not
Heiko Recktenwald wrote:
Somebody was lucky enough to have lunch with Cage, who visited her Prof.
And she said he was absolutely uninteresting and boring, can you imagine
that ?
Well, you know, we're not all of us on all the time. We're not dancing bears
or performing seals, bound to
Some people's ideas of boring are boring.
Hope so. Remember listening to Thoreau reading all night long, which was
kind of "boring". Maybe you have to have some "willingness to like", you
must bring with you some sympathy etc for the man, his work. Or it will
not work. Maybe this is a general
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Back in 1976, the San Jose (CA) Symphony had a concert series featuring
living and recently dead American composers. Cage came and
"conducted" Atlas Eclipticalis. Having a connection with the
I was lucky enought to hear Cage speak or perform several times,
spent 30 minutes with him in his NYC place during which he was
bombarded with constant phone calls, went to his 70th birthday
party and thought he was one of the most interesting and
significant people I have ever met! Who was it
--- Heiko Recktenwald
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Remember listening to Thoreau reading
all night long, which was
kind of "boring". Maybe you have to have some
"willingness to like", you
must bring with you some sympathy etc for the
man, his work. Or it will
not work.
Yes, Thoreau (at 12
With "Live/Evil", for example, I found it
exciting/daring/inventive etc right after it came
out - then with it's CD release a little less so.
I still like it very much, although the parts without drums, you know
which tracks I mean, are today even stronger than they were then, maybe
they were
I had lunch with John Cage in 1972
It was a disappointing affair although the car he sold me
served me well.
I don't think he was related to the American artist, though.
Roger
Ohmigod, I never made the correlation, and, of course, that is why you watch it - for
its artistic ties - I watch it fixedly, I have to admit I identify with AB, frequent
hallucinations, flashbacks, rotten relationshipsI must stop here lest I
digress further into Munch with Cagethe
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