Interview With MoMA Curator David Platzker About the New Exhibition on John Cage

The uniting of the worlds of visual art and music is a trend that is getting a boost from a major new exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, focusing on the composer John Cage and his monumental -- and some would say notorious -- work, titled 4'33". The composition 4'33" is a piece intended for any instrument, which comprises a total of four minutes and thirty three seconds of silence - no notes are played at all. However, as Cage stated, "there never will be silence." When it was first perform...