Philip Glass: A Composer’s Century [via MetaFilter, August 1, 2002]
Music, [Cage] argued, could no longer be seen as something separate and detached from its listeners and from its context. Rather, creating music was a process that was initiated by the composer or performer, but completed by the audience. The listeners’ experience of the work was essential to the music itself.
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