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by zb 1516 days ago
Any thread about this is incomplete without mentioning the article about a note change in this performance by John Darnielle (of the band the Mountain Goats, who is also a novelist): https://harpers.org/archive/2016/01/there-are-other-forces-a...
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Incredible that Cage managed to provoke riots in his audiences in 1974 and 1976.

Impressionists and modernists famously did so in earlier generations but the mid-70s is astonishingly late for an art riot. Among Buddhists in Boulder, no less!