[silence] silence Digest, Vol 79, Issue 9

[Glenn Freeman]

Petr Kotik wrote:

> Apropos 103: the piece does not have a score, hence it could not be  
> conducted.

Yes, all the Number Pieces have individual parts and no score. Was  
this Cage's mistake or a budget issue? Was it Cage's intent?

> One has to decide then, whether one sets in the front of the
> orchestra a clock, or a ?human clock? (the one Cage invented in the  
> 1950s).

"the piece does not have a score, hence it could not be conducted."

> I have not encountered an orchestra, which has the training and  
> experience
> to make sense out of Cages notation (and music for that matter).  
> This is the
> reason for the need to put a human being in front of the orchestra
> musicians, to help them, technically and musically, navigate the  
> piece.

All the players I've worked with are orchestral musicians. I am an  
orchestral musician. So we've had different experiences, perhaps due  
to our age difference. Conductors are the reason the orchestral  
tradition is dying, not orchestral musicians.

> Petr Kotik


Glenn Freeman
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