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Re: Musical snobbery (was Re: Songs for BL)

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Subject: Re: Musical snobbery (was Re: Songs for BL)
From: Peter <monkey@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 1998 17:51:12 +0800
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Tim Morgan wrote:

> In message <1CC8ECC2FE7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> D.LANCASTER@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes
> >> >Actually I perform 4'33" every year with my first year students!  It may
> >> >not be everyone's cup of tea but at least it makes them ask the question
> >> >for themselves: 'is this music and if not, why not?'  Sometimes it
> >> >works really well!!!   ( And isn't it interesting that Eric Ball borrowed
> >> >small sections of it to use in Resurgam...).
> >>
> >> This is a quite disgraceful slur.  How could Ball have plagiarised Cage's
> >> work when Resurgam was written in 1950, and 4'33" written in 1952?  Answer
> >> that.
>
> Actually, I'm thinking of arranging 4'33" for band...but I'd like to
> make it a test piece, so I'm renaming it 14'52"

Hey now that really would confuse Geoffrey Brand!!!

Hehehehehe......


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