Mats Norrman <[log in to unmask]>: >I can report the guinness-record is already lost to John Cage, who has >composed some minimalistic piece which is supposed to be performed over >a time of 20 years (or something even more ridiculous). At this point, 20, 40 or 60 years is almost the same (ridiculous). However, this is quite a subject to restart the legendary thread "Repeats". >The piece starts with a pause and the first tone is appearing after 4 >days and lasts 2 weeks in duration. Some organists of Saxony have >volounteered for performing the piece, reports DN. This is NOT a joke!!! You see?. Those saxon gentlemen have no sense of humour at all. (I hope they are paid per hour and not per work). Can you imagine the rehearsals?: "Gentlemen, that was good, but the first week was a bit staccato". "I heard that Barenboim (and his inheritor) wants to rehearse the work day by day". >After Karl-Heinz Stockhausen, the next avantguardist has come up with >something even better, just proving the solidity of the idea of the >Oevre....alas! Goldsmith said once: "Every absurdity has now a champion". I wrote, concerning a performance of "Vexations": >>I felt myself stupid for being there and, of course, I felt them more >>stupid than me. I felt that the occasion wasn't humorous at all (just >>as this indication of Satie was). It's like when you tell a joke to a >>person and he takes you seriously. That's sad. Mats responded: >You have no humour. To take a joke seriously can be the finest of humour. Oh, I suspect that I have my bit of humour, but I'm certainly too lazy to express it by playing a piece 840 times (or during 20 years, whatever)!! Pablo Massa [log in to unmask]