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From: jeffw@tekecs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: As long as we're talking about Cage...
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Date: Wed, 9-May-84 22:07:48 EDT
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Posted: Wed May  9 22:07:48 1984
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If, at a Cage concert, an earthquake striking the hall is *just* as likely
as a curtain going up, that might explain why his work is unpopular. Sounds
rather dangerous to me!

Seriously, can anyone supply a source or reference for the following story?

   "There is a Cage work which calls for several radios to be tuned across
the band in a random path (of course) simultaneously. one evening during the
performance, there was a widely broadcasted state-of-the-union address
on most of the stations. The random nature of the performance was thus
hilariously lost." (no one could say it wasn't entertainment, though!)

or perhaps it was just a contemporary marx brothers flick...

					Jeff Winslow