Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/03/16

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Cage & Egg
From: Jim Brick <jimbrick@photoaccess.com>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:46:48 -0800

At 02:42 PM 3/16/00 -0800, Jeff Spirer wrote:
>
>I saw Cage in 1968.  He spent an hour sitting at a desk at which you 
>couldn't see what he was doing.  He worked on something that made mostly 
>scratching noises.  At the end of the hour, in his q&a, when asked what he 
>was doing, he held up paper from the desk and showed that he had been doing 
>transcriptions.
>
>He did read from his book and play a few pieces on prepared piano, but some 
>people were so angry they left.
>
>Jeff Spirer



Sounds like Cage and Eggleston could be "artistic" buddies.

!

Jim