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, May 21, 2007
Goldfinger and Cage
Ben Harper of Boring like a Drill has a great post about John Cage's one-time master teacher in Architecture, Ernő Goldfinger, and solves the mystery of Goldfinger's pop cultural immortalization in a famous spy novel. Now someone has to do a number on Cage's own pop cultural immortalization, in the stage name of an Oscar-winning actor (born Coppola) and, possibly, as a character in a TV legal/soap.
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