A displaced Californian composer writes about music made for the long while & the world around that music. ~ The avant-garde is flexibility of mind. — John Cage ~ ...composition is only a very small thing, taken as a part of music as a whole, and it really shouldn't be separated from music making in general. — Douglas Leedy ~ My God, what has sound got to do with music! — Charles Ives
Monday, March 12, 2007
Cage in Iran
With the news that works by John Cage have been programmed in Tehran, it's perhaps worth pointing out that while these performances are probably the first of Cage's work since the revolution, they are not the first performances of Cage's music in Iran: the Cunningham Dance Company, with Cage as music director, toured Iran in 1972.
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