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John Cage ~ Water Walk ~ I've Got A Secret

John Cage performing "Water Walk" in January, 1960 on the popular TV show I've Got A Secret.
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"The world is teeming; anything can happen." — John Cage

The Living Archive is an online record of John Cage's work and its evolving impact on music and performance. Browse the full archive of work below... examine a collection of manuscript excerpts housed at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts... watch videos of musicians, students, and performers from all walks of life interpreting Cage's music... most important, contribute your own video showing how you interpret Cage's music. Videos will appear on this homepage as the Living Archive grows. Cage believed that, following his detailed directions, anyone could make music from any kind of instrument — and so we welcome your interpretations of his music.

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The Moldau - Vlatva - by B. Smetana

"The piece contains Smetana's  most famous tune. It is an adaptation of the melody La Mantovana, attributed to the Italian renaissance tenor Giuseppe Cenci (also known as Giuseppino), which, in a borrowed Moldovan form, was also the basis for the Israeli national anthem, Hatikvah. The tune also appears in major in an old folk Czech song Kočka leze dírou ("The Cat Crawls Through the Hole") and Hans Eisler used it for his "Song of the Moldau"."
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Hommage à Marc Chagall, excerpt 1

Thomas Bloch, composer ~ Patrick Husson, soprano.
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Handel and Bach were Both Blinded by One Man

"A University of Wisconsin-Madison ophthalmologist says both Handel and Bach underwent eye surgery at the hands of an "oculist" called the Chevalier John Taylor.

"Taylor was the poster child for 18th century quackery," says Daniel Albert, MD, MS, the author of "Men of Vision," a history of ophthalmology. The book has a chapter on Taylor's colorful, if gruesome, career...

Albert describes him as "the most infamous of all ophthalmic quacks." His arrival into town would be heralded by placards and handbills, and his coach was decorated with paintings of eyeballs and the motto: "Qui dat videre dat viver" (He who gives sight, gives life.)"

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12 Year Old Music Prodigy

Blue Jay is 12 and has already written 5 full length symphonies. He attends Julliard and is said to be the greatest musical talent that has come along in 200 years.
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Zbigniew Preisner - Honour thy father and thy mother

Zbigniew Preisner (b. 1955) is Poland's leading film music composer and is considered to be one of the most outstanding film composers of his generation.
Visit the Homepage of this Music Master...
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Antonín Dvořák - Wikipedia

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