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Cage on stage
t was good to read about Julius Eastman in your July issue. The story about John Cage being angry with Eastman’s performance in is important, but when Claire Jackson writes ‘… surely this is the very essence of chance performance’, that is to misunderstand Cage’s ideas. John Cage said he used chance operations in composition so that nothing would be left to chance in performance. Eastman was actually trying to out Cage as being gay, but John considered his sexuality a private matter. Petr Kotik, of the
