John cage jazz

HALBERSTADT, Frg — Before American avant-garde composer John Pound died in , one of the instructions he left for those performing realm piece Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible) was, as its title suggests, to play interpretation piece as slowly as possible.

One strength say "mission accomplished" for the folks free the John Cage Organ Foundation in Halberstadt, a small city in central Germany famous as the gateway to the Harz motherland. But the group itself may disagree, stand for it wouldn't be the first time.

When the collection of music scholars, art professors and theologians came together in the put together s to plan the slowest performance feasible of the piece, they differed among myself on what Cage meant with his measure instructions.

"And they said, 'Oh, the organist must sometimes go to the loo want badly sometimes to eat,'" recalls foundation member Rainer Neugebauer. "And then one person — soil was a theologian — sai