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galen  ·  3638 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: 'Scarlatti: Cage: Sonatas' by David Greilsammer an unsettling package

Yeah, sort of, but then you've got passages like

    In the end, any connection between Cage and the Baroque is coincidental. But Cage was a composer devoted to coincidence – Sonatas and Interludes is the pivotal score that led to Cage's moving into chance composition.

and

    By not sounding anything like Gould, Scarlatti or Cage, Greilsammer embodies the spirits of them all.

I guess my point is Swed never makes an explicit and all-encompassing value judgment.