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Composer John Cage, who is this year's Eliot Norton visiting professor of poetry, has a reputation for lectures that many find incomprehensible...
...seminar at Paine Hall yesterday, Cage was down-to-earth and direct about his conception of music and performance...
...complement each of his six experimental lectures--readings of random word combinations--Cage holds seminars a week later to answer questions about his life and work. Yesterday, the 76-year-old artist told about 150 people his views on topics from politics to the best way to handle enthusiastic fans...
...music can be a metaphor of society," Cage said, adding that it represents a society "in which we would be willing to live...
...Cage described his utopia as one with no leader and pointed to a recent composition for the Boston Symphony Orchestra as an example. The piece, which will be performed in April, calls for the conductor to act as a "coach" during rehearsals but not to conduct during performances, he said...