[silence] silence Digest, Vol 67, Issue 8

[Daniel Wolf]

> No one has recorded (or even reconstructed) the score to The Marriage on  
> the
> Eiffel Tower.  This is definitely one piece I would be interested in  
> hearing
> and seeing.
> Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Curator, Rare Books and Manuscripts,


Richard Bunger (author of "The Well Prepared Piano") had this in his  
repertoire, but didn't record it due to copyright concerns over the  
pastiche pieces in the "Garbage Music" section. I heard Bunger play it on  
at least two occasions, in LA and in Santa Cruz, and over a KPFK  
broadcast. As I grew up with piano benches full of anthologies of "Music  
the Whole World Likes to Play", I will always have a soft spot for Cage's  
"Garbage Music"

Now that I think of it, the "Garbage Music" does have an extremely  
interesting role in Cage's catalogue, as it is perhaps the first piece to  
use an existing repertoire as a source for a collage-like setting.   
Someday there will definitely be a dissertation on the road from "Garbage  
Music" to the Europeras, with all the obvious (Credo in US) and  
less-than-obvious (Rozart Mix, Cheap Imitation) in-between.

As long as we're on the topic, there's definitely another dissertation in  
musical settings for The Marriage at the Eiffel Tower. In addition to the  
orginal Les Six and Cage scores, there is a version by Lou Harrison and  
must be several others.

Daniel Wolf