Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Petr Kotik <>]

Don’t you have anything better to do than going over quotes that had and have 
no relevance?
Does anyone wants to be quoted, anything, anytime, out of context etc.?
PK


On Apr 6, 2016, at 5:33 PM, hans w. koch 
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 wrote:

> dear silencers,
> 
> in a german text about the german soundart event brueckenmusik 
> (www.brueckenmusik.de), the author quotes cage from a conversation with 
> c.h. waddington in 1972.
> the german version runs like: „Wenn Musik Umweltgeräusche zulassen kann, 
> ohne davon beeinträchtigt zu werden, so handelt es sich um moderne Musik. 
> Wenn, wie bei einer Kom- position von Beethoven, ein schreiendes Baby oder 
> ein hustender Gast die Zuhörer störend beeinflusst, dann wissen wir, dass 
> es keine moderne Musik ist.“
> 
> which in english is something like: “If music can allow environmental 
> noises without being disturbed by them, then it is modern music.
> If, with a composition by Beethoven, a crying baby or a coughing member of 
> the audience influence the listeners in a disturbing way, then we know that 
> it is not modern music.”
> 
> now, since the publication is meant to be german/english, it doesn´t make 
> much sense to retranslate that quote into english.
> i ´d be extremely grateful, if someone could give me the correct english 
> wording.
> 
> thank you in advance
> 
> hans w. koch
> 
> 
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