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Experimental composer and Norton Eliot Lecturer John Cage confused a Sanders Theater audience of more than 150 people yesterday when he delivered a speech written according to the "I Ching" principle...
...that Harvard Real Estate had the old Gulf station on Mass. Ave. torn down during Christmas break, when opponents of the University's plans for a hotel there were not around to protest. Harvard pulled the same stunt in 1955, when it demolished Shady Hill, the much-loved old Norton mansion, during summer vacation. What astonishes me is the crassness with which the University thinks it can bulldoze informed and heartfelt reservations about its plans--reservations based on crucial issues of the urban environment, student and faculty working conditions, and the purpose of the University...
...speech was far from a purely academic one. Gates, who is currently editing a Norton Anthology of Afro-American Literature, cautioned his audience against any Ivory Tower approach to Black literature. Instead of remaining sheltered "in the swaddling clothes of our academic complacencies," Gates said scholars must be aware of "the yawning chasm between our critical discourse and the traditions they discourse upon...
...modern era, however, a number of composers have once again begun using mathematical techniques to compose music. Norton Lecturer John Cage, who pioneered in this area, is famed for using randomness and probability formulas (often generated by computer) to determine pitch and rhythm...
Cage was invited to be the Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer this year by members of Harvard's music department and a Norton Lectures committee composed of faculty members. Past Norton lecturers have included Igor Stravinsky, Harold Blum, Frank Stella and Robert Frost...