Cage bemuses New York with the sound of silence
TIMEPIECE This month in history
On the evening of 29 August 1952, David Tudor stepped onto the platform of the aptly named Maverick Concert Hall, a historic timber-hewn venue nestling in forest near Woodstock, New York. Seating himself at the piano he placed a score on the stand, set a stopwatch, closed the lid – and sat quietly for 33
