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John Cage recital set to last 639 years recently witnessed a chord change
In the year 2000, in a small east German town, work began on the construction of an organ that had one purpose: to perform John Cage’s ORGAN2/ASLSP (1987) for precisely 639 years. The late avant-garde composer’s only instruction for the piece was to play the piece ‘as slowly as possible’. And so in 2001 –
Yoel Noorali The crowd in the immediate vicinity of the organ at St Burchardi church, Halberstadt, had paid €200 [DPA Picture Alliance Archive / Alamy Stock Photo] Comments Share
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