[silence] Petr Kotik's Umbilical Cord

[Glenn Freeman]

Joe Zitt wrote: "Working from a Jewish perspective, of course, I have  
respect for both oral and written traditions and the balance between  
each."
I have no idea what is meant by "Jewish perspective, of course" in the  
context of this discussion ... please explain how it applies.
In terms of history, power, greed, fiction and 'oral traditions' I  
suggest a film called "Joe Gould's Secret (2000)".
For Petr Kotik to suggest that because we did not know Cage personally  
we are somehow different is true. But to also suggest Cage was unable  
to write his ideas down on paper for future performers (with no prior  
knowledge of any 'oral tradition') to ponder and come to their own  
equally valid conclusions and interpretations is untrue. I doubt Cage  
would much enjoy a single approach to his work passed down in such a  
fanatical, even religious, fashion ... and with references to an 'oral  
tradition'.
I hope someday to hear the Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony, etc.  
perform 103, 108 or Twenty-Six, Twenty-Eight and Twenty-Nine [Eighty- 
Three], etc., without a conductor AND/THUS as written. It would be  
another equally valid approach, in addition to Kotik's 103.  
Understand? Recordings are a different matter.
To repeat the only commentary in the first email:
"I was born the year Kotik met Cage. According to Kotik it is unlikely  
I will find an approach to Cage's music and he is correct. It is  
highly unlikely we will ever find ONE (an) approach to Cage's music."
Glenn Freeman
OgreOgress productions
http://ogreogress.com