{"id":116,"date":"2005-11-05T23:59:39","date_gmt":"2005-11-06T03:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=116"},"modified":"2007-09-03T17:27:04","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T21:27:04","slug":"up-to-a-point-lord-copper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"Up To A Point, Lord Copper"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Halloween, Terry Teachout<\/a> quoted an apophthegm of John Cage:<\/p>\n

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It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ‘culture.’<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This sentence would be much better — or at least truer — with mutatis mutandis<\/em> inserted somewhere in it. I think it is better to listen<\/em> to a piece of music by Bach or Mozart, or even Crusell or Arriaga (just to name two of my favorite smaller fish in the ocean of music), than to perform<\/em> one by Cage, and much better to listen to almost any other composer’s work than to make<\/em> a piece of music like the ones Cage made.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Halloween, Terry Teachout quoted an apophthegm of John Cage: It is better to make a piece of music than to perform one, better to perform one than to listen to one, better to listen to one than to misuse it as a means of distraction, entertainment, or acquisition of ‘culture.’ This sentence would be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-orbilius"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}