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Re:John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnesse... by jcattle on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:19AM (#43568576)
What do you think about the state of music? Do you also feel that since the 19th century it has only been down hill?
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Re:John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnesse... by wtcactus on Thursday April 03, 2025 @08:32AM (#43568691)
Erudite music (i.e. what we call classical Music)?

I think it managed to hold off a bit more, we still have Bizet, Rachmaninoff, Sibelius, even Stravinsky and others composing great (fantastic, in some cases) pieces in the first half of the 20th century.

But then, a bunch of Jonh Cages came along...

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