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Kyle Gann on music after the fact

Well, He Was a TV Star There

Apparently “The Silence Does Not Exist” (as Google retranslates it) can now be read in Italian.

UPDATE: I do enjoy Google’s automatic translation of Amazon’s Italian synopsis:

In the world of contemporary music is a before and after “4’33” “of John Cage. This composition is not known, this silence” active “- not a pianist who plays for 4 minutes and 33 seconds – is one of the works art’s most famous, controversial and misunderstood of all time. Kyle Gann tells the imaginative life of John Cage and analyzes his masterpiece, illuminating the philosophical and musical influences: from Marcel Duchamp to the theory of Zen, by Erik Satie with white linens tli Robert Rauschenberg. the centenary of the composer’s birth and exactly sixty years after the first groundbreaking performance of “4’33” “, this essay explores the interpretations and the reactions that the hand has aroused Cage (a Dadaist experiment? a reflection on ‘Listening? a joke?), and the ways it has changed all the music that was written that night in 1952 to today.

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So classical music is dead, they say. Well, well. This blog will set out to consider that dubious factoid with equanimity, if not downright enthusiasm [More]

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American Mavericks - the Minnesota Public radio program about American music (scripted by Kyle Gann with Tom Voegeli)

Kalvos & Damian's New Music Bazaar - a cornucopia of music, interviews, information by, with, and on hundreds of intriguing composers who are not the Usual Suspects

Iridian Radio - an intelligently mellow new-music station

New Music Box - the premiere site for keeping up with what American composers are doing and thinking

The Rest Is Noise - The fine blog of critic Alex Ross

William Duckworth's Cathedral - the first interactive web composition and home page of a great postminimalist composer

Mikel Rouse's Home Page - the greatest opera composer of my generation

Eve Beglarian's Home Page- great Downtown composer

David Doty's Just Intonation site

Erling Wold's Web Site - a fine San Francisco composer of deceptively simple-seeming music, and a model web site

The Dane Rudhyar Archive - the complete site for the music, poetry, painting, and ideas of a greatly underrated composer who became America's greatest astrologer

Utopian Turtletop, John Shaw's thoughtful blog about new music and other issues

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