Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Marc Thorman <>]

he also talks at some length about it in the recordings that accompany the book of his norton chair lectures , I-VI

On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:03 AM, Stefano Pocci <> wrote:

On 04/16/2013 03:57 PM, cc wrote:

dear group

i'm looking for an audio quote in which cage speaks about piano preparation,
can anyone help ?

thanks

chris cutler

Rob is correct. I've recently used that documentary for a little talk about John and you can find it at Ubuweb:

http://www.ubu.com/film/cage_masters.html

The preparation snippet begins around 7.30 min.

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Stefano


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