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Something Different for a Change
Two months ago (May 5), the chord of John Cage's composition Organ2/ASLSP changed! In a special ceremony, people gathered at the St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, [East] Germany to witness the changing of the chord. You may think my news is a bit late, but given the context this is like light speed. The next change won't happen for about a year.
"We love the event because it's so brilliantly funny," said Jens Frohling, 38, a bank employee who had come from Frankfurt to this town about 110 miles southwest of Berlin. He said government officials had been trying, without great success, to draw visitors to eastern Germany. "So why not this?" he said. "I think it worked." Read more.
"We love the event because it's so brilliantly funny," said Jens Frohling, 38, a bank employee who had come from Frankfurt to this town about 110 miles southwest of Berlin. He said government officials had been trying, without great success, to draw visitors to eastern Germany. "So why not this?" he said. "I think it worked." Read more.
Posted 05 July 2006 at 15:38.
A graduate student in music and anthropology writing a dissertation about music in Moravia, the eastern third of the Czech Republic. At some point, the Czech Republic's "second city" (that would be Brno) captured my attention, and I've since been blogging about events, arts, music, and other stuff—basically whatever interests me in and around the cityscape. I'm not living in Brno now, but I keep up with the cultural pulse from afar as best I can.
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