Scholarly discussion of the music of John Cage.

[Lothar Reitz <>]

Dear Silencers,

I agree with all of your observations. One good thing, though:
It made me want to relisten to "Empty Words, Part IV" (G.F. Bauer Edition). And badly, too.
I'm packing it onto my tablet right now to accompany me today.
Nichinichi kore konichi.

Be well and stay safe

Lothar


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Von: Thomas Moore <>
An: Rod Stasick <>
Cc: silence <>
Verschickt: Do, 13. Aug. 2020 5:17
Betreff: Re: [silence] Robert Wilson performs John Cage’s ‘Lecture on Nothing’

Embarrassingly awful is a good description. To take a work like Lecture on Nothing, a floating Zen-timeless-egoless construction (which, despite my saying timeless, is all about time), and to imbue it with ego (Wilson even chuckled at one point), was revolting. It was all about Robert Wilson, not at all about John Cage or Lecture on Nothing ... and the point of the artwork, and its relevant experience, would have been completely lost on anyone with whom it was unfamiliar (or, indeed, anyone with whom it was familiar). To put it bluntly, Wilson destroyed John’s work.

Onward.

Be well.

Best,

Tom

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Director, Arts and Culture
Institutional Advancement
UMBC

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On Aug 12, 2020, at 10:09 PM, Rod Stasick <> wrote:

Well, that was embarrassingly awful.

Personally, I kind of wondered how

this would go, but I didn’t want to

imprint my personal feelings onto the 

announcement of the “performance.”

The moment I did like was about 45 minutes in

when the camera was trained on the backyard

and you could hear John speaking, but that was all.

Rod

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