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Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futzle@old.mermaid.town ("Deborah Pickett") wrote:
• Some performances of 4′33″ are played at a different tempo to that specified by Cage. The concert pianist Gregor Örsted famously played 4′33″ in three minutes and five seconds on a dare, and once played it in under three minutes (but hit a wrong note so does not qualify for the record fastest performance).
• A radio station in Houston was known to edit out the second movement of 4′33″ as an unofficial “single” cut. It was quite popular and led some listeners to believe this was the original version.
• An unauthorized five-second sample of 4′33″ can be heard at 1:58 in the original album version of Britney Spears’ song “Oops, I Did It Again”, but this was rectified in subsequent releases.