[silence] don sample

[Christopher L Shultis]

Frans van Rossum, with whom I've lost contact, met with 
Don Sample in France in the early 90s and discussed that 
meeting at a Cage conference in 1995 at Mills College. The 
Mills talk may have been taped and if so perhaps could be 
found at Mills. It could also be that other biographers 
have now gathered information on the subject in the time 
since. At present there is little published about Sample 
and Cage other than what he himself mentions in the Hines 
article. That is, unless someone else knows of other 
published information that hasn't yet crossed my desk. 
Cage's early years are among his least documented and a 
detailed biography (some are in the works) will hopefully 
in part rectify that. That is, depending upon how open 
(and available) those with information that could flesh 
out that history are. A good and interesting topic but one 
that presents some problems unless you have access to 
information that Cage himself rarely discussed.

chris shultis