Phil Daley wrote:
At 5/3/2007 03:00 PM, Darcy James Argue wrote:
>I mean, whatever you might think of, oh I don't know -- John Cage,
>let's say -- it would be idiotic to say that "he was barely into
>composing."
I would say John Cage knew nothing about "composing".
Survey 100 people on the street.
At least 99 would say, "John who?"
Yes, but that would also be true of John Adams and Joan Tower and
Corigliano and practically any living or recent composer except John
Williams. You'd most likely get the same response from 99 out of 100
when they were asked about Aaron Copland. :-)
Public ignorance is no indication of anybody's ability within their
chosen art.
Say whatever you want about John Cage's knowledge of "composing," these
days nobody can argue about his skill as an expert on decomposing. ;-)
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David H. Bailey
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