[silence] silence Digest, Vol 81, Issue 11

[Kraig Grady]

Thank you Dan!


/^_,',',',_ //^ /Kraig Grady_ ^_,',',',_
Mesotonal Music from:
_'''''''_ ^North/Western Hemisphere:  
North American Embassy of Anaphoria Island <http://anaphoria.com/>

_'''''''_ ^South/Eastern Hemisphere:
Austronesian Outpost of Anaphoria <http://anaphoriasouth.blogspot.com/>

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Daniel Wolf wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 18:04:52 +0100,  
> <silence-request@list.mail.virginia.edu> wrote:
>
>   
>> I am surprised the
>> First Church of Cage
>>  hasn't been built.
>>     
>
> As an undergraduate, N.O. Brown warned me that young people tended to make  
> disciples of themselves around Cage and that Cage — "like that other J.C."  
> as Brown put it — was not exactly discouraging.  Brown also recounted that  
> moment in the '50s at Richard Winslow's house, near Wesleyan, in which,  
> surrounded by young undergraduate me, Cage launched into the Sermon on the  
> Mount.
>
> On the other hand, Cage could be outright dismissive of attempts to  
> needlessly mystify or talk about matters in religious terms.   For  
> example, when Heinz Klaus Metzger asserted that the Etudes Australes would  
> "last forever" because they were made with star charts and God had made  
> the stars, Cage responded that there was no God and he had made the pieces.
>
> And then this: the project of dedicating the Burchardikirche in  
> Halberstadt to a 639-year long "performance" of ORGANf/ASLSP is quite  
> literally along the lines of a First Church of Cage, with real controversy  
> among the disciples (the first schism, if you will) as to whether this  
> project is actually something Cage would have recognized and supported as  
> his own or not and whether or not the realization is really accurate in  
> terms of the spirit and letter of the score.
>
> Daniel Wolf
>
>
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