John Cage - In The Name Of The Holocaust

Margaret Leng Tan plays prepared piano.

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[lakesidemourning]

A lot of people don't realize that this peice is not supposed to be pretty...it's about a freaking genocide. Genocide is not pretty.

It's perfect potrayal of what the subject of the peice is; so the peice is perfection, I think.

[Cbdr17]

my mom wouldn't let me "prepare" my piano =(

[OldSchopenhauer]

Because this is a piece about the war in general. It was not referring to the killing of Jews, or gypsies, or any ethnic group in specific, but World War II itself. I was just saying that the killing of Jews in Europe was not referred as "The Holocaust" until the nineteen sixties, and this piece came out in nineteen forty two.

[savagerabbit]

The "purported" genocide!? What are you trying to say? How does the time the Holocaust gained its moniker indicate that lakesidemourning needs to "research history" because he pointed out that the dissonance in this music is metaphor?

[CapitanoGUC]

this piano play is worse than the holocaust ....:-O

[OldSchopenhauer]

You need to research history. The purported genocide was not referred to as "the Holocaust" until the nineteen sixties.

[Armen Gakavian]

Does music always have to follow a set format? This piece is neither 'musically pleasant' nor (apparently) melodious... And neither should it be. It gets the message across... in a profound way. Let's learn to listen, not just to the sounds, but also to the meaning.

[AquaPhoenix2006]

Really? I thought it was a firing squad

[Juliet Patter]

This is absolutely .. beautiful.

[Christina Mitchell]

The bomb sounds really makes it emotional. D:

[ChrisTheContagion]

it's like bombs going off towards the end

[6shige9]

プリペアドピアノのテクニックはすごくカッコいいね！(-.-)­b