Mike Leghorn replies to David Runnion: >>You can enjoy the silence of a muted ER but that's just you enjoying >>silence, it is not Cage. > >I'm sorry. I still don't get it. Just because I'm physically >present at a concert performance of 4'33" doesn't necessarily mean I'm >participating and sitting respectfully and truely listening to the music >of silence. I might be daydreaming or fidgetting, like so many people do, >even at concerts with real music. While I'm sitting in front of the TV >and the sound is muted, I might be thinking or Beethoven's 3rd. Perhaps David should have phrased it this way: You are listening to Cage's 4'33" if you think you are. Just as you are "listening" to Beethoven's 3rd if it or a fragment of it is playing in your head. Steve Schwartz, just trying to help