{"id":1350,"date":"2012-06-25T12:00:03","date_gmt":"2012-06-25T16:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2012-06-24T16:38:13","modified_gmt":"2012-06-24T20:38:13","slug":"one-final-post-from-cage-for-now-schonberg-der-grausamer-meister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/?p=1350","title":{"rendered":"One Final Post From Cage (For Now): Sch\u00f6nberg, Der grausamer Meister"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>On one\u00a0occasion, Schoenberg asked a girl in his class to go to the piano and play the first\u00a0movement\u00a0of a Beethoven sonata, which was afterwards to be\u00a0analyzed. \u00a0She said, &#8220;It is too difficult. \u00a0I can&#8217;t play it.&#8221; \u00a0Schoenberg said, &#8220;You&#8217;re a pianist, aren&#8217;t you?&#8221; \u00a0She said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221; He said, Then go to the piano.&#8221; \u00a0She did, She had no sooner begun playing than he stopped her to say that she was not playing at the proper tempo. \u00a0She said that if she played at the proper tempo, she would make mistakes. \u00a0He said, &#8220;Play at the proper tempo and do not make mistakes.&#8221; \u00a0She began again, and he stopped her immediately to say that she was making mistakes. \u00a0She then burst into tears and between sobs explained that she had gone to the dentist earlier that day and that she&#8217;d had a tooth pulled out. \u00a0He said, &#8220;Do you have to have a tooth pulled out in order to make mistakes?&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cage, J. (1961).\u00a0<em>Silence: Lectures and writings<\/em>. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press. (265-66)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Schoenberg always complained that his American pupils didn&#8217;t do enough work. \u00a0There was one girl in the class in particular who, it is true, did almost no work at all. \u00a0He asked her one day why she didn&#8217;t accomplish more. \u00a0She said, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have any time.&#8221; \u00a0He said, &#8220;How many hours are there in the day?&#8221; \u00a0She said, &#8220;Twenty-four.&#8221; \u00a0He said, &#8220;Nonsense: \u00a0there are as many hours in a day as you put into it.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Cage, J. (1961).\u00a0<em>Silence: Lectures and writings<\/em>. Middletown, Conn: Wesleyan University Press. (271)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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, &#8220;It is too difficult. I can&#8217;t play it.&#8221; Schoenberg said, &#8220;You&#8217;re a pianist, aren&#8217;t you?&#8221; She said, &#8220;Yes.&#8221; He said, Then go to [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20001,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/20001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1352,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions\/1352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/opensourcemusic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}