LISTENING TO JOHN CAGE......
No-one in my immediate circle likes modern music or modern theatre for that matter. Opera has to be traditional and music needs to be classical. Since Gianni has returned to Italy I really am « alone » on this scene. I don’t know why there is such an important event for Robert Wilson on in Paris, but there is. It may well be for the Autumn Festival but this one in particular is not really clear to me. After all he has been back in Paris for productions 18 times over the last 40 years.
I have booked four shows in the series and am sorry that I didn’t book more. Too late now as there are people who like his work. The theatres are full.
It was a reading by Robert Wilson called « Lecture on Nothing » by John Cage. This hour and a quarter "lecture" follows that of John Cage’s first performance of his own work in 1949 in New York. Some critics have qualified it as being one of the most important poetical manifest of the 20th century…..well….. As usual I was at the Louvre audit