“There’s a beautiful West Coast nexus of music,” said Adam Sliwinski of So Percussion, talking about that quartet’s Oct. 26 Stanford Lively Arts show, titled “We Are All Going in Different Directions: A John Cage Celebration.” He continued, saying: “Henry Cowell influenced John Cage; so did Pete Seeger’s father, Charles [both Bay Area composers and teachers] ... and, in the most fascinating collision, [serialist composer] Arnold Schoenberg, of all people, happened to be right there too [in Los Angeles]. And there were all these gamelan orchestras showing up. We’re a percussion group — and percussion music would’ve existed in a completely different way without Cage’s crazy ideas.”....
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