Word: musicically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cage's sounds are slowly catching on with concert performers, two or three of whom have already learned how to jimmy bolts and screws among the strings of their own pianos. Most music lovers are still doubtful. Explains Cage: "People want the newest thing in their houses and automobiles, but in the arts the newest thing seems to be too frightening...
After Carnegie, balletomanes at City Center heard what a Caged orchestra sounded like. His music for the ballet, The Seasons, was full of grunting fragments of brass and woodwinds, but Composer Cage proved he could write a melody, too, when he wants to. And to his fans, Cage's two-finger piano solo, surrounded by silence in mid-ballet, was almost a showstopper...
Crop-haired Composer Cage, who looks like a Huck Finn grown to 36, is trying to compose music that is really "atonal." Says he: "Atonal music was excellent in theory, but there were no atonal instruments to play it." He wanted "sounds" instead of "tones"; he found them in junk yards, bone yards and hardware stores-brake drums, pipe lengths, asses' jaws-and in his prepared pianos...
...summer, fed up with years of haggling over conductors, wages, and spokesmen, Seattle's symphony musicians rebelled. After forming their own orchestra (TIME, Aug. 23), they picked their own conductor, a bright, energetic young localite named Eugene Linden. While the old Seattle Symphony's socialite directors screamed "musical mobsters," the new orchestra made music merrily-and successfully-though most of Seattle's mink and 75?-cigar set boycotted the concerts. One reason for the success (and the boycott) was a tall, bosomy woman named Cecilia Schultz, whom the musicians had picked to carry their flag and manage...
Bustling about in her monkey-fur jacket and top-heavy hats, her pince-nez perched precariously on her thin nose, Impresario "Cissy" Schultz has long been as much a part of Seattle's musical scene as the musicians. For the past 25 years, she has run nearly everything musical in town except the symphony. Last summer when even that finally fell her way, one board member raged: "She always has wanted to get her clutches on the orchestra." Cissy rasped, in a voice sometimes compared to the sound of tearing canvas: "These big-business tycoons are just little boys...