Church Music Is Cheap !

[gazman]

Welcome Malcolm. I hope you enjoy contributing here!

 

Silence is a wonderful gift which seems to terrify many people nowadays.

[contrabordun]

I heard it was originally an improvisation - pity the poor sod who had to transcribe it from the recording.

[gazman]

I heard it was originally an improvisation - pity the poor sod who had to transcribe it from the recording.

 

 

Fortunately, it's just about within my capabilities!

[Vox Humana]

You're not tempted to play it too fast then?

[gazman]

I once managed to do it in under 4 minutes, but it cost me a fortune in physiotherapy bills afterwards!

 

And it took months of brain-ache to learn too!

[Guest Patrick Coleman]

More than once I have heard Martin How say that children cannot create a reverent atmosphere but they can respond positively to one created by adults.

 

Malcolm Kemp

 

It's very true that children respond most positively to a reverent atmosphere; yet it's also true that they can create one instinctively when faced with something awesome or beyond their understanding. Adults often spoil such occasions with busy-ness or with an attempt to stop the children thinking too deeply.

[contrabordun]

I once managed to do it in under 4 minutes, but it cost me a fortune in physiotherapy bills afterwards!

Yeah Yeah Yeah, technically very impressive no doubt, but at what cost to the composer's intentions? I bet the audience didn't hear half the actual notes.

[dcmbarton]

It's very true that children respond most positively to a reverent atmosphere; yet it's also true that they can create one instinctively when faced with something awesome or beyond their understanding. Adults often spoil such occasions with busy-ness or with an attempt to stop the children thinking too deeply.

That is quite true. Its usually not the children that are the problem; its the adults!

[handsoff]

Yeah Yeah Yeah, technically very impressive no doubt, but at what cost to the composer's intentions? I bet the audience didn't hear half the actual notes.

 

Has anyone tried it in a church with an induction loop for the hard-of-hearing?

[Vox Humana]

I once managed to do it in under 4 minutes, but it cost me a fortune in physiotherapy bills afterwards!

 

And it took months of brain-ache to learn too!

A jazz band has been noted doing it in 90 seconds (true!)

 

My trouble is that I lose concentration and make mistakes.

[pwhodges]

A jazz band has been noted doing it in 90 seconds (true!)

When I needed a shorter version, I performed just one movement (the first, as I recall - but it was in 1963, so my memory might be faulty).

 

As a discussion point, which of the following is a truer representation of this piece (both exist):

 

(1) A CD with three tracks of digital silence, so that you listen to your local ambience;

 

(2) A CD with a recording of the studio ambience at the time of the recording.

 

Paul

[contrabordun]

Well, (1) is a recording of a live performance and (2) is a studio recording, in which performance errors, etc, may have been 'revisited'.

[Vox Humana]

As a discussion point, which of the following is a truer representation of this piece (both exist):

 

(1) A CD with three tracks of digital silence, so that you listen to your local ambience;

 

(2) A CD with a recording of the studio ambience at the time of the recording.

I really can't make up what is left of my mind, but I see that one can buy a DVD containing six different performances of the piece, including the premier of Stokowski's transcription for orchestra. True to form, Stokowski has tampered with the score.

http://www.musicweb-international.com/clas...07/Cage_433.htm

[davidh]

I was once going to play it, but when I found that the piano was out of tune I had to cancel.