Tag: variations ii

• The unclear boundary between David Tudor and John Cage

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  22 December 2013

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  John Cage

  I’ve been thinking about David Tudor and John Cage a good deal lately, following some hunches to develop what I think is a useful way of looking at their history in the 1960s. I don’t know that I’m completely convinced of my story line here, but it’s intriguing.

• David Tudor’s realization of John Cage’s Variations II

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  13 December 2013

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  Other music

  Article describing David Tudor’s version for amplified piano of John Cage’s “Variations II” and how this could be considered more Tudor’s composition than Cage’s.