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Robert Peters <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 19 Sep 2000 08:57:07 +0200
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Pablo Massa wrote about bad music:

>Cage's 4' 33", for example.  One can't say that this work is ugly, but
>nobody will deny that, as music, it definitvely doesn't works.  Whether
>Cage did care or not about this, is quite a different problem.

You cannot talk about this piece without regarding Cage's theory and
concept.  He stretches the limits of what we understand when we say
"music".  This is allright with me.

Robert Peters
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