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Yes, but is it art?
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To: yucks
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Subject: Yes, but is it art?
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From: Gene Spafford <spaf>
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Date: Tue, 20 Nov 90 16:43:56 EST
... More recently, John Cage has written pieces for "prepared piano", which may
involve attaching nuts, bolts, and other hardware to the strings, and other
indignities. I heard a story (possibly apocryphal) that a horrified janitor
once "cleaned up" one of his prepared pianos just before a concert. Cage came
out, played one chord, screamed, and left the stage. Of course, this was
indistinguishable from an actual Cage performance, so everyone clapped, and
the reviewers wrote gushy praise about the groundbreaking new work....