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Re: 4'33"
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Ron Chaplin <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 10 Sep 1999 03:23:04 PDT
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Wes Crone responds to [log in to unmask]:

>...isn't 4'33" really a study in silence and the "music" whis is still
>present in the face os silence?

This is very similar to what Cage says in the recording of "Compositions in
Retrospect," which is part of the Bridge release of Sonatas and Interludes
for Prepared Piano. Paraphrasing, Cage says that the music continues, it is
we who turn away.

Ron Chaplin

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