Cage is hardly the first one to make use of silence in music--there are
some theories in Indian music that all sound ultimately points toward
silence, and Haydn and Webern made powerful uses of silence in their works
without any of Cage's pretentions.  Silence can be golden without the
emporer being naked.

Aaron J. Rabushka
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