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Re:Cage @ Donaueschingen (was Dialtones)



That mp3 is awesome thank you! Here's a brief recollection of the event by David Tudor...
http://www.emf.org/tudor/Articles/hultberg.html#Donausuchingen



> It's not the famed premiere of Le Sacre, but I have one such recording
> of Cage's 12'55.6078", (recorded in 1954 at the Donaueschingen Music
> Festival), where you can hear people divided in two camps:  those
> laughing on and on because of the strange sounds produced by the two
> prepared pianos, and those shouting "silence!" and hushing.
>
> This piece is an excerpt of 34'46.776", because the organizers persuaded
> Cage to reduce its length fearing the worst.

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