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In an ancient church in Germany, a 639-year organ performance of a John Cage composition is about to have its next note change

  • Written by Rob Haskins, Professor of Music, University of New Hampshire
In an ancient church in Germany, a 639-year organ performance of a John Cage composition is about to have its next note changeA crowd gathers around the organ at St. Burchardi Church in Halberstadt, Germany, to witness an October 2013 note change.Peter Förster/Picture Alliance via Getty Images

Composers count themselves lucky when musicians continue to perform their music after their death.

But the American avant-garde composer John Cage, who died in 1992, never...

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