My friends and I always make fun about playing John Cage\u2019s 4\u2019 33\u201d <\/i>for the recitals, but unfortunately, none of us have done it so far. It seems that 4\u2019 33\u201d <\/i>is the easiest piece to play, and the musicians do not have to practice before the performance since the whole piece is filled with tacet. Also somehow, we do not hear 4\u2019 33\u201d <\/i>very often in the concerts, even though it is a very well-known music repertoire by John Cage. At least, I haven\u2019t heard any live performance for this piece.<\/p>\n
John Cage is a leading American composer in \u201cchance\u201d music area\/music in indeterminacy, and he composed his famous \u201csilent\u201d piece 4\u2019 33\u201d <\/i>in 1952. David Tudor played the world premiere of the piece on the piano<\/a>, and he sat in front of the piano, closed the lid during the movements and set the timing for each movement\u2014the first movement is 33\u2019\u2019, the second movement is 2\u2019 40\u2019\u2019 and the third movement is 1\u2019 20\u2019\u2019. After the last movement, David Tudor closed the lid and walked off the stage. Overall, it was a very formal and serious performance.<\/p>\n Many years ago, I also imagined how I would perform John Cage\u2019s 4\u2019 33\u201d <\/i>on the piano, and I thought the only thing I needed to do is to not play any note. However, after I watched a lot of videos of this piece, I got shocked by different interpretations from various musicians besides just being silent for four minutes and thirty three seconds. The video performed by Japanese Orchestra\u2014K2Orch\u2014is one of the greatest performance on Youtube, and I think it is an amazing live performance with a violin soloist that I can find online for 4\u2019 33\u201d<\/i>. As we know, the performance can\u2019t be totally silent<\/a> since every sound and noise from the audience and the natural environment is enlarged at the moment. Thus, what happened to the performance of 4\u2019 33\u201d<\/i> by K2Orch?<\/p>\n