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The Howard Home
Milton, Cambridgeshire
United Kingdom
Posted Jun 13, 2006
Photo by Peter Howard

The CD is devoted entirely to John Cage's 4'33" for piano, which consists of nothing but silence. Peter was a bit disappointed when he first played it to find that the total playing time was actually 4'35" until he realized that the work was in three movements with a second's pause between each of them. The book is Tristram Shandy, by Laurence Sterne, who tells us that "without . . . much knowledge you will no more be able to penetrate the moral of the next marbled page . . . than the world."


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