John Cage about Schoenberg

Years ago
when I was studying
with
Arnold Schoenberg
someone
asked him

to explain

his technique

of twelve-tone

composition.

His
reply
was
immediate:


“That

is none of your business.”

Chet Baker - I get along without you very well

John Cage's stories: The perfection of the operation

One evening I was walking along Hollywood
Boulevard, nothing much to
do. I stopped and
looked in the window of a stationery
shop. A mechanized pen
was suspended in space in such a
way that, as a mechanized roll of paper
passed by it, the pen went
through the motions of the same
penmanship exercises I had learned
as a child in the third grade.
Centrally placed in the
window was an advertisement explaining
the mechanical reasons for the
perfection of the operation of
the suspended mechanical pen.
I was fascinated,
for everything was going wrong.
The pen was
tearing the paper to shreds and
splattering ink all over the window
and on the advertisement,
which,
nevertheless, remained legible.

John Coltrane - Every Time We Say Goodbye - 1961

:: Divorzio all'italiana : Pietro Germi (1961) ::

Brad Mehldau - Resignation

Ahmad Jamal Trio - Darn That Dream 1959

"If you want me" - Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova

Bessie Smith - Do Your Duty

Beethoven Appassionata 3rd Mov. Gilels Rec. 1974

Amália Rodrigues: Amor sem casa

Renata Pavam - Talisman

Clara Haskil plays Bach Toccata in E minor