A controversial piece of his consists of a pianist sitting without playing for 4 minutes 33 seconds
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4'33" - Solomon's Music Resources  Essay on John Cage's 4'33. ... The piece consists of four minutes and thirty-three seconds in which the performer plays nothing. ... It was first performed by the young pianist David Tudor at Woodstock, New York, on August ... I don't sit down to do it. ..... It is not played in a conventional way, and it is not played by conventional...
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What silence taught John Cage: The story of 4 33 - The piano in ...  4 33, the silent piece, is easily John Cage's most famous creation. ... Cage's name knows that he wrote a piece of music that consists entirely of silence. ... the lid one more time, sitting silently this time for one minute and forty seconds. .... Musically, Cage was on his own in the city, and the prepared piano provided a way...
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433 - Wikipedia  433 (pronounced "Four minutes, thirty-three seconds" or just "Four thirty-three") is a ... The title of the piece refers to the total length in minutes and seconds of a ... and Musicians describes 433 as Cage's "most famous and controversial ... a piano piece composed just a few months before 433, consists of long...
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charles | JOHN CAGE 'Listening to Silence' - Charles Olivieri-Munroe  It was a piece of music where the performer did not play a single note for the ... As it appears that John Cage's composition 4'33 Is largely misunderstood, even by ... experience Cage intended his audience to have while 'listening' to 4'33. .... minutes and thirty-three seconds of silence",[8] the piece actually consists of the...
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4 minutes and 33 seconds  4 minutes and 33 seconds,Composer John Cage Please sit down at the piano on the pianist. ... 1 minutes, no movement, no movement for 2 minutes, 3 minutes, people ... want to know whats going on, to 4 minutes and 33 seconds, the pianist stood ... His silent music "4 minutes and 33 seconds" shock, as a pioneer in art,...
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Eugene Istomin [biography]:Biography Description: Performing Arts ...  Nov 14, 2007 ... Eugene Istomin is acknowledged to have been one of the twentieth century's leading pianists. ... friends Isaac Stern and Leonard Rose playing, respectively, violin and cello. ... Over the course of his long career, Mr. Istomin made recordings by the ... Trio for Piano and strings no 4 in B flat major, Op. 11.
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Chopin and his music on stage - chopin.pl  Suffice to say that shortly before his death he went to see Meyerbeer's Le prophte ... National Theater - Opera in Warsaw, 1999), with Chopin's music interpreted by ... John Neumeier to the music of Piano concerto in F minor Op. 21, Sonata in B ... 1830 in the then National Theater at Plac Krasiskich and the last moments...
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J! Archive - Show #1327, aired 1990-05-15  A walking stick that probably isn't made of candy .... He burned the score of his 5-act opera "Ivan IV" before "Carmen" made him a success...
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Ask Me A Trivia Question -- 2 -- - Discussion on Topix  Apr 4, 2010 ... Rimsky-Korsakov wrote an opera about Mozart's rivalry with this man, who allegedly poisoned him. Reply . Report Abuse Judge it!
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Richard Wagner on Apple Music  He is also one of the most controversial figures in musical history, whose ... he was frequently taken to the home of composer Carl Maria von Weber. ... Meanwhile he completed Tannhauser in 1845 and conducted it in Dresden the same year, ... in Wagner's escape from what would probably have been a death sentence,...
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Classical music review: Liszt isn't a great composer, but pianist Alice ...  Aug 11, 2010 ... All the more reason, then, that I am struck by the new recording of his ... And that makes her recording a model of Liszt playing at least to my ears. ... about him (Oh, what a nice composition this Hungarian Rhapsody No. ... the majority of his mature work  I'm talking about the symphonies, the oratorios, the...
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433 - Wikipedia  433 (pronounced "Four minutes, thirty-three seconds" or just "Four thirty-three") is a three-movement composition by American experimental composer John Cage (19121992). It was composed in 1952, for any instrument or combination of instruments, ... Silence played a major role in several of Cage's works composed before...
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Amadeus: playing with music (Thomasina's last waltz)  Nov 19, 2008 ... He invites us to be his confessors. ... It's an invocation  and he calls it that. ... And in any case, Salieri recovered his senses and denied ... the music of the period that these strategies appealed to his instincts  his ... The musical content of the film is sublime, but the play is more like a piece of music in itself.
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The Piano Lesson by August Wilson  Reviews, Discussion ...  In his second Pulitzer Prize-winner, The Piano Lesson, Wilson has fashioned his .... The Piano Lesson is about two siblings fighting over an antique piano that has ..... The play revolves around a piano owned by a brother and sister that ..... (all symbolized by the fate of a family heirloom piano) was obvious from the start,...
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Classical Music that Sucks  Classical Discussions  Last.fm  [Deleted user] said. ... I guess Bolero is pretty empty but no other examples come to mind. ... ago BBC World had a radio program which was called 'boring masterpieces'. .... Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique ... Csar Franck: symphony in D ..... Both Mozart and Beethoven wrote pieces which are clearly...
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Jeopary Questions page 1794 - NEW FOOD PRODUCTS ...  LOUD CLASSICAL MUSIC: This Handel work heard here was composed while ... This Russian count's "confession" of 1882 is among his most revealing works.
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GLENN GOULD, PIANIST, IS DEAD - SAW RECORDINGS AS ART ...  But beyond his eccentricities, his legacy of nearly 80 CBS recordings is ... Published: October 5, 1982 ... his hands in hot water before playing the piano and humming and ... Mr. Gould himself seemed to grow out of no particular musical tradition. .... his way through a piano recital, his eyes nearly at keyboard level, sitting on...
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OPERA REVIEW; 'War and Peace' Opens; Mishap Raises Concerns ...  Feb 16, 2002 ... Prokofiev's long (nearly four hours of music) and daunting opera, composed in ... Tolstoy's novel, with its hundreds of characters, complex subplots, sermonizing ... on Arts Affairs to turn it into a propaganda vehicle for the Soviet war effort. ... Opera in two acts by Prokofiev, libretto by the composer and Mira...
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Pianist Yuja Wang's dress stirs controversy - latimes  Aug 20, 2011 ... It called for cellist Charlotte Moorman to undress during the performance, ... But the New York premiere was stopped by the police, and Paik and Moorman ... offers barely enough time to work out basic coordination with the orchestra, ... One can only imagine what sextronique shenanigans the late Paik, who...
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Beethoven - Music For Non Majors Class No. Musc 1111 with ...  Feb 17, 2016 ... In political contexts, the 1700s (aka the 18th century) are often .... The phrase "This passage has been stolen from Mozart" represents .... 5 through no. .... The first movement of Beethoven's sonata "quasi tuna fantasia" in c# minor, op. ... in a musical work that depicts the idea of silence (for example, to show...
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Today Is The Question: Ted Panken on Music, Politics and the Arts ...  In Bloodcount, out of a two-hour set, you play about an hour-and-a-half completely .... Imbued with the workshop sensibility that defined Windy City musical ...... present-day luminaries like Craig Handy, Josh Redman and Benny Green. ...... How can you get any bigger than a Robert Altman film and then basically the biggest...