CAGE: NO MAESTRO, PLEASE!

From: The Boston Globe (Boston, MA) | Date: April 2, 1989| Author: | Copyright information

Last year, the Boston Symphony asked John Cage to compose a piece, so he wrote one and called it "1O1." The middle digit is a capital "O," not a zero, because, Cage explains, "a thin zero isn't a round, perfect circle."

One hundred and one is the number of players in the orchestra, and Cage has composed an independent part for each of them. There is no part for a conductor in this piece, which has its first performances at the BSO this week, and when Cage explained this to music director Seiji Ozawa, Ozawa said, "It doesn't matter whether there's a conductor or not; the important thing ...

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