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  • From: Sara Haefeli <>
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  • Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:25:29 +0000
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Thanks, Rob. That's what I get for not reading closely enough!



Sara Haefeli, Ph.D.
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From: Rob Haskins <>
Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 3:24 PM
To: Sara Haefeli <>
Cc: silence <>
Subject: Re: [silence] Cheap Imitation (violin and piano)
 
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If memory serves, Zukofsky is referring to a solo violin version of Cheap Imitation, which indeed was concluded. Incidentally, I believe Morton Feldman made an arrangement for glock, piano, and violin? I may be wrong on the instrumentation.

On Wed, Feb 22, 2023 at 2:57 PM Sara Haefeli <> wrote:
Check out Paul Zukofsky, "John Cage's Recent Violin Music," in A John Cage Reader: In Celebration of His 70th Birthday, ed. Peter Gena, Jonathan Brent, and Don Gillespie, 101–06. C. F. Peters, 1982.

This book chapter describes the collaborative compositional history of the violin version. I don't remember coming across any evidence that Cage "rejected" the piece. But I may be mistaken!

Sara



Sara Haefeli, Ph.D.
Associate Professor 
School of Music, Theatre, and Dance
Whalen Center for Music 2321

           Writing in Music: A Brief Guide, with Lynne Rogers and Karen Bottge
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Music History Pedagogy
 
Ithaca College
953 Danby Rd.  |  Ithaca, NY 14850
(607) 274-1629


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Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2023 1:28 PM
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Subject: Re: [silence] Cheap Imitation (violin and piano)
 
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John - - 

I don't know about this version of Cheap Imitation, but now I'm curious.  Do you know how the violin and piano share the material?  It's a one-line composition - do the instruments alternate phrases or engage in some other kind of alternation?  Play in unison?

louie



On Tue, Feb 21, 2023 at 12:10 PM John Hails <> wrote:
Dear sigiphiles
I have a question about the violin and piano version of Cheap Imitation.
Paul van Emmerik marks it as 'unfinished (rejected)'.
I'm curious as to how this came to be. I was interested in possibly 'completing' or at least processing it in some fashion so that it is performable, but if Cage rejected it...
Any information will be gratefully consumed
Best wishes
John


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