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
Friday, August 25, 2006
True One-Minute Stories for the End of August (2)
When asked by his Harvard students what he thought of the prepared piano, on the day after a concert in Cambridge by John Cage, Walter Piston said: "There must have been fifty cents in there."
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