VIDEO: John Cage's "4'33"" as performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra

[bbernardini]

aka, "Why I Love The Internets, Part 982.32":

http://www.ifilm.com/video/2747103

[Rabrrrrrr]

1. Brilliant! I've never heard it performed by a full orchestra.

Wonderful!!

[RandomKoolzip]

2. I've never heard it, period.

[deepthought42]

3. ...

:rofl: Genius! It sure sounds like they really rehearsed it! I think I'll listen to it again! :headbang:

[Blue_Tires]

4. wonderful stuff

ttt

[RebelOne]

5. How can it be a performance when not a single note is played?

[Orsino]

13. Because the notes you don't play are at least as important as those you do...

...or some such pseudo-Zen horse crap. :D

I'll believe it's a performance when I see the orchestra members turning pages.

[Critters2]

15. It's one long rest.

Or, really, three long rests.

[bbernardini]

16. Technically, three tacets (according to the score).

It would seem to me that in order to have a long rest, there would have to be sound from which to rest in the first place.

[Rabrrrrrr]

17. Did you not listen? There were notes being played all over the place,

from all sorts of sources, that I heard over the speakers; not to mention all the ambient notes happening in my own listening room.

:shrug:

[Burma Jones]

6. That's my Audition Piece

I had to practice a lot.

[AllegroRondo]

7. Bah. Frank Zappa did it better.

[Gormy Cuss]

8. Thanks, but I prefer the version by the NY Philharmonic.

:D

[cemaphonic]

9. Bah

Cage brilliantly illustrated a great concept with that piece, but doing it on that large a scale just seems like a stunt to me (though I suppose it is not too hard to fit into the rehearsal or performance schedule).

Here's another bite-sized orchestral performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl2oKh50AL8

[bbernardini]

10. Actually, I believe it was a part of a whole John Cage program.

Which was part of a composers weekend, or something like that. They mention it at the end of the clip.

[cemaphonic]

12. Ah, that's different

Always nice to see him recognized.

[begin_within]

11. I could play that piece in my sleep.

[Critters2]

14. "In full orchestral version"

:rofl:

[liontamer]

18. I prefer the extended dance remix myself. nt