Re: (Uh,) What is music?

[Seth Austen <klezmusic...>]

on 7/5/01 5:44 AM, JeffSchan (at) aol(dot)com at JeffSchan (at) aol(dot)com 
wrote:


> My wife, Bernadette Speach, was very close to Cage.  He told her that he came
> to the realization that all sound was music in a concert in New York city
> where the rumbling of the subway could be heard during a performance.  Rather
> than considering it a distraction, which most of us do in the same
> circumstance, he expanded his thinking to realize that it was, in fact, part
> of the piece.  

Jeffrey,

Thanks for posting this. It's interesting to know the germination of his
idea.

Seth

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