What Cage Thought Of Bruckner
In his review of John Cage’s letters, Alastair Macaulay writes: ‘Sometimes he’s barbed, as with the Anglican priest who claims to understand Cage’s writings but cannot, despite trying, appreciate his music; Cage sets him the exercise of listening “to at least two hours of Bruckner twice a day, three times on every seventh day, etc., until you discover that it is not sublime at all, but very boring.‒ Too true.
