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Just a friendly stoking of the flames....
In Cage's case "If music be the food of love, prepare for a long night on the toilet......"
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Originally Posted by Prospero
Just a friendly stoking of the flames....
In Cage's case "If music be the food of love, prepare for a long night on the toilet......"
Unless you listen to 4' 33"
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Sorry, I was confusing him with Stockhausen. :twisted::twisted::twisted:
Didn't he do a version of "Such Sweet Thunder" - Duke Ellington's great Shakespearian jazz suite, scored for jackhammer and moog?
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No-one, but no-one, should ever tamper with the Duke's compositions.
He's in the glorious quartet of American composers of the 20th century with Gershwin, Copland, and Ives
agreed
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With Oscar Petersen, Miles Davis and Art Tatum leading the second rank.
Hmmmm... I'd put Dylan in there somewhere too. though heis a words man not a tunes one and cole porter, jerome kern, johnny mercer irving berlin
Apparently Churchill was once introduced to the Philosopher Isaiah Berlin and spent a good deal of time talking to him about his great skills as songwriting. true.
I'd agree with all of those and raise you Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Richard Rodgers and Irving Berlin.Quote:
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