Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Rob Haskins <>]

The original would be in the book referenced below. Hans, if you write me privately, I can try to find the quote when I'm at school tomorrow.

Title	Biology and the history of the future / an IUBS/Unesco symposium, with John Cage [and others]; presented by C. H. Waddington
Imprint	[Edinburgh] : Edinburgh University Press, 1972

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LOCATION	CALL #	STATUS
Dimond - Level 2	QH331 .B48	AVAILABLE

Description	vii, 71 pages ; 21 cm
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references
Subject	Biology -- Social aspects -- Congresses
	Human ecology -- Congresses
Author Ae	Cage, John
	Waddington, C. H. (Conrad Hal), 1905-1975
	International Union of Biological Sciences
	Unesco
ISBN	0852242255

On Wed, Apr 6, 2016 at 5:33 PM, hans w. koch <> 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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