Tag: seven haiku

  • The second of Cage’s silent pieces is the one that everybody has heard of: 4′ 33″. First, I will take up the question of “why now?”: Why did Cage write a silent piece in 1952 after having first thought of it at least four years earlier?

    The origin of 4′ 33″

On the Music of John Cage

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