One Final Post From Cage (For Now): Schönberg, Der grausamer Meister

On one occasion, Schoenberg asked a girl in his class to go to the piano and play the first movement of a Beethoven sonata, which was afterwards to be analyzed. She said, “It is too difficult. I can’t play it.” Schoenberg said, “You’re a pianist, aren’t you?” She said, “Yes.” He said, Then go to [...]

Keep on Running into Cage

From Jim Bloom

 

Rule No. 7, ain’t that some Church.

 

Quote Dump: More on Cage and By Cage

This composition is a legend that is often quoted but hardly ever presented in its entirety. For the point is not merely that we now hear the noises of the concert hall as opposed to those of the instrument, as so often simple-mindedly explained – most recently by Douglas Kahn in his book Noise, water, [...]