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...Crimson defensemen completely boxed in the Tufts attack on those rare occasions when the ball did get into the Crimson half of the field. The Jumbos sent only seven shots at the cage all afternoon, Jim Weir made two saves in the first half and Gil Leaf had three more stops in the second 30 minutes...
...indeterminate music is now all the rage. Some composers refer to it in its milder forms as "aleatory," a term based on the Latin word "alea" (a game of dice), once thought to be derived from the word for knucklebone, out of which primitive dice were made. Although Composer Cage was preaching the aleatory doctrine eleven years' ago (in his Imaginary Landscape No. 4, he conducted an ensemble that played twelve radios simultaneously), the big boom in music-by-chance has come only recently; summer festivals at Donaueschingen and Darmstadt perform it with enthusiasm...
...audience participants in the music. Modern audiences, points out Italian Composer Luciano Berio. too often regard music "as escape from reality." Because aleatory music is designed to surprise everybody-including the performers and the composer himself-it "gives doubt to the public," making the audience "part of the composition." Cage carried this concept to its illogical conclusion in his 4 Minutes and 33 Seconds, in which a pianist sat with a stop watch for four minutes and 33 seconds without playing a note, while the audience provided the "music" in the form of coughs, yawns and sneezes...
Playing the Raisins. No two aleatory composers get their random results in quite the same way. Cage, who is regarded as particularly ingenious, determined the notes for his Music for Piano by following the pattern of the "imperfections in the paper on which the music was written." Germany's Karlheinz Stockhausen, who is perhaps the most influential of Europe's aleatory composers, instructs performers to play any portion of his music that their eyes first fall on. His Cycle, for one percussionist, has spirally bound pages to make it simpler for the performer to begin or end wherever...
Although more young composers join the aleatory ranks every year, most critics denounce the movement as fraudulent, or misguided, or both. Staying one step ahead of his critics. Senior Statesman Cage is already proclaiming aleatory music passe -he prefers to think that his own brand of "indeterminacy" is the ultimate in pure chance. But he will have to go some to surpass English Composer Cornelius Cardew, 26, who in his Octet '61 for Jasper Johns* includes a vague injunction to "Do something completely different," or Argentine-born Mauricio Kagel, 30, who in his Sonant, made himself obsolete...