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Il Silenzio Non Esiste (2009)

by Kyle Gann(Favorite Author)

4.08 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: John Cage's 4'33" may be the Platonic ideal of anti-intellectual joke material--an avaunt-garde musical piece in which the pianist opens the lid and sits at the keyboard for three movements. Gann, a music critic and familiar with the experimental music community since the 1930s supplies the context--Cage's friendships with Merce Cunningham and Marcel Duchamp, flirtation with Zen Buddhism, WPA work experience (Job: Entertain visitors to a children's hospital without making any disruptive noise), the outdoor theater in Woodstock New York, Muzak and the Supreme Court case allowing Muzak on public buses and new digital recordings that can provide absolute and total silence instead of the accidental, participatory performance when 4'33" is played out in front of a live audi... moreence.
review 2: Kyle is one of the smartest, most cogent, most well-read (and well-listened) writers about contemporary music out there right now, better even, in my opinion, than Alex Ross, whom I nonetheless love to pieces. This book is a total joy to read, taking Cage's revolutionary work and delving not only into the philosophy behind it, but using it as a launching point for an overview of Cage's life and a history of American classical music in the 20th century. And, of course, his music. less

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