I have been in at least in partial agreement with what was said in class, that being said I think a little of it was bs. A very fast almost free association line of questioning was sometimes pressed after a comment, which I liked, it was almost necessary to sift through the almost anything that can run out of the random conversation. Though I almost favor the rapid fire questioning in class it no doubt makes some others uncomfortable. It seemed like a good 80% of the class said little to nothing, this might change as the class rolls on and people get more comfortable.
I understand the point and importance of 4'33, but I think that the demarkation it clearly made by the specificity of the pieces's length and further splitting the piece into three "movements" just pisses me off. I got it the first time, thanks. Here is a piece that had relevance, had genius, but how much ego stroking did people give Cage to get him to just ruin it by going over the top in slight ways. Much much worse than the original piece and concept is having a cover of the piece by someone other than the composer, especially a cover that has no audience (what I feel is a necessary component of the original) just pisses me off.
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