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1 posted on 09/07/2020 8:25:03 PM PDT by BenLurkin
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Best known for a composition called 4'33" -- which is just four minutes and 33 seconds of silence -- Cage wrote Organ/ASLSP in the 1980s.

World's laziest composer.

2 posted on 09/07/2020 8:26:14 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: BenLurkin

And I thought Genesis’ “Suppers Ready” was a long song.


3 posted on 09/07/2020 8:26:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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PT Barnum would be proud of this guy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3BBgQPuPI0


4 posted on 09/07/2020 8:26:41 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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I saw a Cage performance back around 1973 in Ann Arbor. Damned if I can recall any of it.


5 posted on 09/07/2020 8:27:08 PM PDT by Chengdu54
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To: BenLurkin

“Music”


6 posted on 09/07/2020 8:27:26 PM PDT by coloradan (The Enemy Media isn't chartered to inform but rather to advance the interests of certain elites.)
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He was a half-note late... I thought these people were professional musicians!


7 posted on 09/07/2020 8:28:37 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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In the Year 2640, I hope no one will be tempted to yell, “One more time!”


8 posted on 09/07/2020 8:30:01 PM PDT by FirstFlaBn
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To: BenLurkin

What utter vanity.


9 posted on 09/07/2020 8:30:33 PM PDT by Sparticus (Primary the Tuesday group!)
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John Cage’s “As Slow As Possible”, played as fast as possible
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5-Yo328Rp4


10 posted on 09/07/2020 8:31:50 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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11 posted on 09/07/2020 8:33:10 PM PDT by seawolf101 (Member LES DEPLORABLES)
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"A compressor in the basement creates energy to blow air into the organ to create a continuous sound. When a chord change happens, it's done manually. On Saturday, soprano singer Johanna Vargas and organist Julian Lembke changed the chord."


13 posted on 09/07/2020 8:34:05 PM PDT by plain talk
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The experimental piece, which consists of eight pages of music meant to be played very slowly,

Sounds like doom metal to me.

15 posted on 09/07/2020 8:37:23 PM PDT by wastedyears (The left would kill every single one of us and our families if they knew they could get away with it)
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Sheesh...even Biden comes out from his basement more quickly.


16 posted on 09/07/2020 8:38:16 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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The musical equivalent of taping a banana to the wall.


17 posted on 09/07/2020 8:41:31 PM PDT by I-ambush (Got arrested for inciting a peaceful riot)
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To: BenLurkin

They changed the chord.

Was it flat?


19 posted on 09/07/2020 8:43:06 PM PDT by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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What time is it?

I’m going to go with cracra....


23 posted on 09/07/2020 8:56:50 PM PDT by Paladin2
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Give it a chance. You really don’t get to know a piece like this until you’ve heard it a few times.


28 posted on 09/07/2020 9:01:15 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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John Cage was a mushroom enthusiast. He music was ethereal, crazy, random, and avant garde at the time, but he could not pick wild mushrooms according to his random notes. A stark incongruous repudiation of his music. Play all your discordant music you want, but you cannot pick wild mushrooms in the same manner, it will kill you.

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/music/a-mushroom-related-brush-with-mortality-how-john-cage-fell-for-fungi/ar-BB189oE5

30 posted on 09/07/2020 9:02:01 PM PDT by Fungi
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Sort of like a Geico radio commercial. It repeats over and over and over and over ...


31 posted on 09/07/2020 9:08:27 PM PDT by TomGuy
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But did the bass drop?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoUV7Q1C1SU


32 posted on 09/07/2020 9:10:35 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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