News about John Cage

They were one of his afternoon radio shows, snippets of trivia from around the world so bizarre that listeners were never quite sure if they were correct or false. These 'factoids' were such a hit feature that the legendary DJ, who died this week at the age of 69, that he wrote two books of his favorites, whether it was discovering the immense shoe size of a celebrity chef or revealing the name of the film with the first flushing toilet.

The Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow As Possible) ensemble began in September 2001 at the St Burchardi Church in Halberstadt and is forecast to close in 2640 if all goes well. The music work by American composer John Cage is performed on a special organ inside the medieval cathedral. So far, the chord has only been changed 16 times since - the first time the sound has been changed was two years ago in February 2022. The latest pipe added a d' to the previously 6-note chord. Hundreds of spectators, who may have purchased tickets for the vent years in advance, gathered around the mechanical organ as volunteers added another pipe to create another sound, according to the BBC. The sound of the organ pipes changes as new sounds are added or existing sounds are discontinued, as a result of a chord change.

On Monday night, the Emmy Awards celebrated nostalgic cast reunions of some of the best and most beloved shows in television history. In an interview with Variety last week, Emmy Awards executive producers Jesse Collins, Dionne Harmon, and Jeannae Rouzan-Clay hinted two of these reunions for the hit 90s sitcom Martin and the hit legal thriller Ally McBeal. In the interview, Rouzan-Clay said, 'I think they'll be talking about the ones that they might not see on television.'

MARCUS TOWNEND: Heather Main's decision to train racehorses was an unusual understatement, but not nearly enough to suggest that she would have a blast from the royal Ascot experience this week. None of her fellow trainers will have sung in the Barbican while swinging from a trapeze as part of John Cage's Musicircus, and it's safe to say it's safe to say that none of her colleagues will have sung from a trapeze. You wouldn't bet that many of Main's coworkers had even heard of the avant-garde American composer.

In addition to ABC's news that Ally McBeal's career and personal lives have been chronicled, FEMAIL takes a look at the stars of the series's five seasons, beginning with 2005. With actors like Robert Downey Jr. (far left), Portia de Rossi (second from left), and Lucy Liu (far right) receiving accolades for their participation in the legal drama, the show opened.

Rarely do I incite someone to comment on the back of a glossy magazine's front page. Yet, at the tail end of the 1990s, I did exactly that, prompting the biggest (and smallest) star of the day into expressly telling me in huge letters: 'I'm thin, so what?' I had been wailing in print - in my own magazine, Marie Claire, and in this issue - that Calista Flockhart, the actress of Ally McBeal, was a threat to women's wellbeing. She was the kind of Hollywood thin that made her features too wide for her face, her skull too large for her tiny body, and clad as it evidently was in a pelmet skirt that revealed her kidneys.