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                            April 13, 2003

   [La Monte] Young's Piano Piece for David
   Tudor #1, written in October 1960,
   instructs: "Bring a bale of hay and a bucket
   of water onto the stage for the piano to eat
   and drink.  The performer may then feed the
   piano or leave it to eat by itself.  If the
   former, the piece is over after the piano
   has been fed.  If the latter, it is over
   after the piano eats or decides not to".

        -- Julian Crowley, The Wire, April 2003

A joke?  Sure.  How could you not laugh?

(I wonder if it was joke on David Tudor.  
Cage and Young competing, supplying Tudor with
"compositions" of increasing absurdity, to see
if they could get him to break character and
lose his composure on stage,)

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