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...surprisingly, Brown has been strongly influenced by John Cage, the father of aleatory, or "chance," music. But he no longer agrees with Cage's belief that random aberrations in a performance are as valid artistically as the composed parts. What Brown is after is a responsible, controlled and more human improvisatory collaboration between composer and performer. "This is music by choice, not chance," he says. "My music enlarges the potential for musicians to take a more creative part in the music; yet I am not interested in everybody just doing his thing. I didn't compose by chance...
...Degree of Respect. Rowe described his long internment on his return to the U.S. en route to his home in McAllen, Texas. During the last 14 months, he lived in a wooden roofed cage deep in the forest ("You sometimes question whether it's built for an animal or a human"). During the day, he was allowed to venture only 125 feet away from his "hooch," and spent most of his time cutting firewood, setting traps and snares for mice, snakes and wild animals that would spice up his daily diet of rice and fish. He tried to keep...
...Godard saw the end of the world as a vast traffic jam. Bergman's concept is less visual-and more chilling. His people never see history; like radiation, it destroys them without touching them. Jan and Eva become aliens in their own marriage. They rage against their cage and at each other. As Samuel Beckett puts it, "The mortal microcosm cannot forgive the relative immortality of the macrocosm. The whiskey bears a grudge against the decanter." Half from fear, half from the desire to have the child Jan cannot give her, Eva sleeps with a friend (Gunnar...
Cavanagh, whose deft play-making repeatedly set up scoring opportunities for his wings, broke open a tight 2-1 contest by ramming the puck into the cage at 9:27 of the final period...
Defenseman Chris Gurry evened the score at 9:06. Gurry rushed into a corner in the offensive zone after a loose puck, carried the puck along the boards behind the net, and then came back around the cage to power the puck past Burns and a Bruin defenseman...