Robert Peters responded to me: >>Cage's 4' 33", for example. One can't say that this work is ugly, but >>nobody will deny that, as music, it definitvely doesn't works. Whether >>Cage did care or not about this, is quite a different problem. > >You cannot talk about this piece without regarding Cage's theory and >concept. He stretches the limits of what we understand when we say >"music". My statement is perfectly consequent to Cage's theory (if there's such a thing as a a "Cage's theory"). Read it again carefully, with all your inner calm. Pablo Massa [log in to unmask]