On 7/2/02 4:36 AM, "henrik str.mberg" <hs@groove.st> wrote:
quoted 2 lines not to forget, and more this-listy to boot, leo anibaldi's void album
> not to forget, and more this-listy to boot, leo anibaldi's void album
> (rephlex 1995). the last track is 3:03 minutes of silence...
great album, "void" itself is one of my favorites. and i would argue Cage is
more this-listy than a lot of stuff i see posted here.
anyway, more to the point, cf peters (Cage's publisher) is notorious for
this. i performed in a run of Cage's "Theater Piece" being staged in the
Theater Dept. at the U. of Maryland a few years back. of course i posted an
announcement to the John Cage list to try and draw people to our show, and a
few days later i get this very stern email from cf peters saying something
to the effect of "how dare you stage a production of Cage's work, we expect
full royalty payments, blah blah blah."
of course, i didn't do any staging, i just performed in it and posted it to
the list - and regardless, it was being staged by a university theater
program that wasn't charging any admission at all. i got a couple more of
those before i wrote back and went into a long tirade; if cf peters is
approaching music and arts education by charging universities ROYALTIES for
performing an important composer's work, then i don't expect i'll be
purchasing any cf peters scores - or performing works - ever again and will
recommend the school of music and dept. of theater do the same.
needless to say, they didn't bother us anymore.
m
aka craque
http://craque.net
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