quoted 8 lines He did ballets like parade just to bother the audience.>He did ballets like parade just to bother the audience.
>Picasso did backgrounds and costumes...etc.
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>The audiences of his openings would boo and hiss and throw things.
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>In general, a great artistic endeavor.
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>Heh.
Ever hear about the eighteen hour long performance of his piece "vexations"
done in New York by John Cage, among others? Apparently, the origional
instructions for playing vexations were to repeat the piece (which is a
minimalist piano piece that lasts just over a minute) exactly 840 times.
So, Cage and company, being wierd, decided to do just that. Kind of
anticipated all those ambient pieces by eno et.al which were designed to be
played "perpetually", eh?