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  • From: Dionysis Boukouvalas <>
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  • Subject: [silence] Unrealized works
  • Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2023 16:12:26 +0000
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Do we know how many works were commissioned from Cage but yet unrealized at the time of his death? I am including works he had not even begun working on (indeed: I am especially interested on them).
I remember that the relevant number for Xenakis was roughly 15 (hearsay from Xenakis-expert pianist Ermis Theodorakis). Of course, in the case of Xenakis he just abandoned them, because he could no longer write. Allow me one more Xenakis story here, because I find it moving: When he delivered his last work, Omega (symbolically - the last letter of the Greek alphabet), it run a few minutes long, while the commission was for a 15 minute work. Xenakis said "be grateful for this (i.e. short) work, because it is my last one"...



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