Rain, Blow, Rustle
Nick Richardson: John Cage, 19 August 2010
“... encouragement, Cage prepared the first score for 4’33”. The former Village Voice critic Kyle Gann’s new book traces the ‘multiplicity of routes’ by which Cage arrived at his great statement. Most of them, as he shows, were there in the programme for the Woodstock concert, laid out like the premises of a syllogism: Schoenberg and serialism ... ”
