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Article: Chance Encounters With Cage; The Maverick Composer's Retrospective in Rockville
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- The Washington Post
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- May 8, 1989
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"My favorite music is the music I haven't heard yet," intoned
John Cage, at 76 perhaps the world's most influential living
composer, during an hour-long autobiographical talk he gave Saturday
afternoon on the lawn at Strathmore Hall in Rockville. The monologue
was part of this past weekend's Cage-Fest, a two-day celebration of
the man's half-century of turning the musical world on its ear as
only, it seems, he can. His voice-low-pitched, breathy,
monotonous-reflects his work, whose nongoal, nonprocess feeling of
stasis has been confounding traditional music lovers for decades.
How does Cage-elaborating his point by saying, "I don't write music
that I hear, I write music to hear what it ...
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