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(*Time Cycle* is very cool) [MW]
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Yes. One I also enjoy.
As to Tone, I remembered (l'esprit du send button) that his was the music
played alongside Cunningham's *Roadrunner* in, I think, the late 70s. What I
can't remember (not a good sign) is what it was actually like.
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I saw the premiere of Europeras, which would have put Ken in an apoplexy
[MW]
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Yes. Indeed. What's the Cage quote I want? 'You've been sending us your
operas and now I'm sending them back.' Something along those lines.
The piece you describe (I don't think I know it) does sound promising. I
shall try to bestir myself.
Apocope and aposiopesis both feel right to me. Also the illusion of erasure.
(Cage is paradoxical on this issue: on the one hand his rejection of
Schoenberg's end of the pencil; on the other how 4'33" arose out of
Rauschenberg's erased white paintings.)
CW
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I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it
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