At 02:11 PM 12/3/01 -0800, you wrote: >Hi Pete, >Actually the book that has been referred to is (according to the issue I >have): >JOHN CAGE, An Anthology, Edited by Richard Kostelanetz >(Published by Da Capo Press) > >According to Al Hansen "...the class became a little version of Black Mountain >College (It is on the basis of that season, with both Dick Higgins and >myself in >full glory, that Cage is said to have vowed that he would never again accept >students whose last name began with an "H.")" > >Cage's first connection with the New School for Social Research was in the >early >1930s, when he came to California to study with Henry Cowell. In the 1940s he >taught privately or substituted for Henry Cowell. In the 50s he began the >classes >in "Composition of Experimental Music," generally 3-12 students. Students >were: > >Toshi Ichiyanagi >Jackson Mac Low >Richard Higgins >Al Hansen >George Brecht >Allan Kaprow >Florence Tarlow >Scott Hyde. > >Seems to me one of the greatest outcomes of the classes was the consensus that >"anything goes", which of course led to the development of "happenings" and >performance art, some of the first tenets of Fluxus. > >Best, >PK
Thanks very much Patricia, you've been very helpful. I'll have to see if I can locate that Anthology book, perhaps by ILL. I found the quote from Higgins, it's on page 221 of The Fluxus Reader, to wit: "When Ben Vautier speaks of Fluxus, he usually evokes the name of John Cage and Marcel Duchamp so repeatedly that one might well wonder if he had ever heard of any other artists at all. Nor is he the only person of whom this is true." Pedro you-won't-regret-seeing-"Waking-Life" Pescador
