Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

["hans w. koch" <>]

please don´t shoot the messenger (or editor in this case).
just trying to tidy up the translation of someones text done by somebody else.

hans


> Am 06.04.2016 um 23:37 schrieb 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 
> <>
>  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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