Is it true, he once performed a piece where cutting the leg off of a piano with a saw was part of the score, thereby seriously cutting his own leg, causing a major emergency.
Long live the Pranksters of this world! G�ran ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Lute Net" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 19. desember 2003 13:41 Subject: Re: John Cage on Lute | Dear Michael, | | It is possible that John Cage achieved something as a composer, but, | if he did, it has escaped me. Cutting strings, performing in | silence, and all those other sad gimmicks are utterly abhorrent. No | doubt he is making some clever, meaningful point, as purport the | forlorn heaps of modern art junk which clutter the Tate Gallery in | London, but I hate it. It is anti-music, anti-art, anti-culture, | anti-everything to which genuine musicians aspire, and as such, it | is thoroughly worthless. | | Best wishes, | | Stewart. | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Michael Stitt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2003 9:39 PM | Subject: John Cage on Lute | | | > | > Does any one know whether John Cage wrote for the lute in his life | time? | > | > I heard something about a contemporary composer who wrote a | Passaicialle where after each return of the bass motif, a course was | cut with sizzors until all strings were no more. Then silence. | | |
