[silence] Cage in Italy

[Luigi Pizzaleo]

I apologize, I forgot to some division in my rough calculation. 
However,  if you compare 5M of 1958 with the corresponding amount in 
2001 (in lire), you will have approximately 430M, that is much more than 
$55000 (that is the sum you would have if you changed lire in dollars in 
1958 and made it grow up with dollar's inflation). This calculation is 
based on the purchasing power of a public employed's salary.
About Berio and his "aid" to Cage, he was often at the Studio di 
Fonologia della RAI di Milano in those years, but I don't think he could 
be yet so powerful (as he would have been ten years later) to organize 
such a thing...

Tom Duff ha scritto:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007, Luigi Pizzaleo wrote:
>
>> John Cage was in italian quiz "Lascia o raddoppia" in 1958. He wan 5 
>> millions italian lire, something as today's 500,000 dollars.
>
> The lire/dollars exchange rate was pegged at $1=625 lire under the 
> Bretton Woods agreement 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bretton_Woods_System) from 1949 until 
> 1971.  So 5M lire was worth $8000, which inflation since then has 
> converted (http://www.westegg.com/inflation/) to something in the 
> $55,000 range, not $500,000.
>