Ian Crisp:
>the determination of some people to go against all reason by arguing
>that something that demonstrably contains no musical content whatsoever
>is a piece of music. It is as if they can only see: "not-music" = rubbish.
>I take a broader view than that.
I don't say "not-music"=rubbish, but I do deny that Cage's little piece
contains no music whatsoever. It's a piece full of rests. Rests are
music. Remove them from a piece of music and you get different music.
Steve Schwartz