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Ongoing History Daily: The Silliest Plagiarism Suit Ever

Plagiarism is an awful thing. It’s when you appropriate someone else’s work and then claim it for your own. It’s

In 1952, composer John Cage came up with something he called “4’33″” (read as “four thirty-three,” as in four minutes

As previewed in this space last week, an insanely rare musical moment was executed on Saturday when a new set

Back in 1987, experimental composer John Cage unveiled Organ2/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible), a piece that when performed on piano

Death metal band Dead Territory has released this cover of John Cage’s “4’33”.” If you don’t get the joke–actually, it’s

One of the weirdest avant-garde compositions of all time is John Cage’s 1952 work, “4’33″” (You pronounce it “four minutes

Ruth Blatt–who has been excerpted in these pages many times before–wrote this Forbes article entitled “The Remarkably Simple Technique Behind