jeffw@tekecs.UUCP (Jeff Winslow) (06/02/84)
I think I'm beginning to understand Tom Twiss's point - let me put it this way: Each piece of music is part of a philosophical construct. As such, a Cage work is essentially the same as, say, a Beethoven symphony. ok - but here's a semi-rhetorical question: Why don't we just do away with music and talk philosophy instead? I submit that a Beethoven symphony is a much more appropriate rebuttal to this suggestion than any Cage work. And that is why I make the distinction that Cage's work belongs to the realm of philosophy, maybe not *rather* than music, but *more* than music. And *that* is why it doesn't interest me. Jeff Winslow