John Lewis wrote:

>If you want to call Cage abstruse, vague, anti-musical, etc, first go
>listen to the Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano (out on Naxos
>now-- spend the $6.  Most sensuous piano music after Debussy and very
>rhythmically vital to boot) and the pre-chance piano works like The
>Seasons, Ophelia, etc (Try Margaret Leng Tan's Daughters Of The Lonesome
>Isle disc).  This music is easy to love.

There is another recent version on Bridge, with Aleck Karis at the prepared
piano (9081A/B).  It also includes "Composition in Retrospect", read by
Cage at Ms.  Betty Freeman's Beverly Hills Music Room (03/08/82).

Pablo Gamba
Caracas, Venezuela
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