The Latest Breaking News from John Cage

An excerpt from his column in yesterday's N.Y. Times: Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage. His most famous piece is "4'33"," which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for…

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The world's longest musical composition, Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible), was composed by experimental mastermind John Cage

The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits.

Admirers of the avant-garde composer’s work hope the concert in the German church will stay the course – all the way to 2640

"Use fewer notes", "Be dirty" or "Mute and continue": which Strategy will you use in the studio today?