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Re: Eine Kleine Nichtmusik 2
I don't know. I've listened to them
both. They sound exactly the same to me. A person who isn't holding a stopwatch
could be completely fooled.
>>From: Elmer Elevator <bobmer.javanet@RCN.COM>
>
>They
haven't got a case. 60" is clearly different from 4'33"!
>Don't
have to turn the page.
>
>James
>
>>Mike Batt, the
man behind the Wombles and Vanessa Mae, has put a silent
>>60-second
track on the album of his latest classical
chart-topping
>>protégés, the Planets. This has enraged
representatives of the avant-garde,
>>experimentalist composer John
Cage, who died in 1992. The silence on his
>>group's album clearly
sounds uncannily like 4'33", the silence composed by
>>Cage in his
prime.
>>
>>Batt said last night: "I've received a letter
on behalf of John Cage's
>>music publishers. I was in hysterics when I
read their letter.
>>
>>"As my mother said when I told
her, 'Which part of the silence are they
>>claiming you nicked?'. They
say they are claiming copyright on a piece of
>>mine called 'One
Minute's Silence' on the Planets' album, which I credit
>>Batt/Cage
just for a laugh. But my silence is original silence, not a
>>quotation
from his silence."
>>
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