Re:zen and the fluent music-Cage

[a k butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

>  have to say that I love the things that John Cage wrote about and 
> loved his use of chance in music.   I have a first edition, signed 
> copy of "Silence" and it is one of my heirlooms (though I don't 
> have an heir........<weak smile>)   but quite frankly,   I actually
>enjoy very little of his actual music.

wow,
Can't believe you don't love the prepared piano stuff.

kind of gamelan mutates into Eric Satie

Sure he also did a lot of stuff where reading the description was 
just as enlightening
as hearing the music.



http://www.naxos.com/mainsite/default.asp?pn=Composers&char=C&ComposerID=165
(the naxos site has soundbites from a vast range of stuff, if you 
sign up to their very occasional
newsletters)

andybutler