Back in 2001, a group of people decided to take the tempo direction in John Cage's 1985 work As Slow As Possible to an extreme and began a performance (of the composer's 1987 arrangement for organ, Organ²/ASLSP) intended to last 639 years. (Since the score opens with a rest, the first notes didn't actually begin […]
SOURCE: ArtsJournal at 12:12PM on September 8, 2020