>No. Cage, I think, was actually quite a generous listener. His comments were
>about the individual players in a Western orchestra. And he had a point
>about too many of them. I remember hearing some musicians playing 'rock' for
>Moroccan soldiers just North of Western Sahara a couple of decades or so
>ago: a similar sense of proficiency plus parallelism as though the whole
>peculiar affair were somehow multi-tracked or played in subtitles.
Sorry: I misunderstood. And the point's well-taken--a lot of orchestral
musicians are indeed profoundly bored by their work.
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>He included Cage in his modern music
>course--Cowell had been his student.
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>Vice versa, I think. Ditto Gershwin.
Of course.
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>he didn't think he was playing wallpaper, or trance music, or
>endless repetition [...] and he preferred audiences capable of the level of
>pleasure that comes with following the thought process.
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>True, but not the point. I tried to steer you away from that temptation with
>my reference to Judd.
>
>CW
I'll admit to having decidedly mixed feelings about Judd--my blindspot,
maybe. I'll report back when I've had a chance to get up to Beacon or out
to Marfa, both of which are planned.
Mark
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>I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it
>(van Gogh)
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