Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Rod Stasick <>]

– MoMA Acquires Cage's Silence: The score that launched a thousand art history jokes,John Cage's silent 4'33'', is now in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. New York financier Henry R. Kravis purchased the earliest extant version of the legendary work in honor of his wife, Marie-Josée, MoMA’s president. Kravis bought it from the artist Irwin Kremen, to whom Cage had given the score as a birthday present in 1953. "It’s between music and art, a score but also a drawing as well," said Christophe Cherix, MoMA’s chief curator of prints and illustrated books. The score will go on view at the museum next summer. [NYT]

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