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SUMMARY:What has John Cage to do with Plato? Reception theory\, classical 
 antiquity and music - Simon Goldhill (Professor of Greek\, University of C
 ambridge)
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CONTACT:Lindsay Friday
DESCRIPTION:This paper will look at the role of two interlocking ideas\, f
 irst collaboration in the production of musical events\, second\, the role
  of classical antiquity in the imagination of composers. It will look at h
 ow John Cage worked with Merce Cunningham to produce some of the most impo
 rtant ballet scores of the twentieth century\, but also how he worked thro
 ugh the music of Eric Satie to do so. It will further look at how Cage’s
  “collaboration” with Satie opens into ideas of the “neo-Classical
 ”\, central to one strand of modernism\, and how the deep history of anc
 ient Greek writing was integral to Satie’s work. Through such a discussi
 on we will explore how the notions of imitation\, repetition\, adaptation\
 , performance inform the practice and theory of the reception of the past 
 and its role in music\, and\, more broadly\, cultural history.
LOCATION:Lecture Room 2\, Faculty of Music\, West Road
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