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Article: JOHN CAGE CAPTAINS A VOYAGE OF DISCOVERY
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 28, 1988
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MUSIC OF JOHN CAGE -- In a concert at the Museum of Fine
Arts last night.
John Cage seems to be an inexhaustible source of energy, idea,
and beauty, and our current whirlwind of Cage events -- two this
week, three next -- seems like too little rather than too much.
Last night's concert at the MFA was organized by Stephen
Drury, a "Xerox pianist," according to his program biography -- but
of course he isn't like anyone else. The concert presented a
variety of music from various periods of Cage's career in uniformly
excellent and interesting performances. Composer Ivan Tcherepnin,
introducing Cage, commented on the venue. "This breaks down the
wall between the Mona Lisa and a ...