[silence] Petr Kotik's Umbilical Cord

[Kraig Grady]

nice approach to your music Joseph!


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Joseph Zitt wrote:
> One question that arises is how far one can stretch and misinterpret a
> given score and still have it be the same work.
>
> In my own case, I've taken a sort of Creative Commons attitude. I said
> in the introduction to Surprise Me With Beauty that performers may
> find clashes with what they can do in performing some of my pieces. If
> they do, then doing what is right for the people is more important
> than doing what is right for the piece. And if, in doing it, they have
> stretched things so far that it is no longer recognizable as my
> people, they can then consider that they have created a new piece and
> should give it a new name, And it would be good for them to note in
> recordings and program notes that it evolved from a particular one of
> my pieces.
>
> Of course, one can't speak for a composer who is no longer with us to
> give this opinion of his work after the fact.
>
> As I've said before, I have significant disagreements with how both
> Glenn and Petr have interpreted Cage's scores. But I can enjoy
> listening to each as differing representations of the work.
>
> Working from a Jewish perspective, of course, I have respect for both
> oral and written traditions and the balance between each. Petr and
> Glenn, respectively, seem to represent the more absolute adherence to
> each. But there's a lot of balancing room in the middle.
>
> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:38 PM, john saylor <js0000@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> hi
>>
>> On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Glenn Freeman <glenn@ogreogress.com> wrote:
>>     
>>> The really great
>>> music can endure such changes, becoming the 'classical music' of the
>>> future and thus free of the limitations of tradition.
>>>       
>> 'classical' music is a marketing term.
>>
>> why should we care about the future [shouldn't we try to make a better
>> present (musically)] ?
>>
>> and, if you take a cage score and 'misinterpret' it [according to
>> kotik], but make music that you and others find compelling- what's
>> wrong with that?
>>
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