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Discovery Channel :: News :: 639-Year Concert Lets Loose 2nd Chord
by dmv at 3:35 pm EST, Jan 9, 2006

Jan. 5, 2006 — A new chord was scheduled to sound Thursday in the world's slowest and longest lasting concert that is taking a total 639 years to perform.
The abandoned Buchardi church in Halberstadt, eastern Germany, is the venue for a mind-boggling 639-year-long performance of a piece of music by U.S. experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992).

I like slow things. Building an organ throughout the process of playing a concert? Neat.

RE: Discovery Channel :: News :: 639-Year Concert Lets Loose 2nd Chord
by flynn23 at 12:29 pm EST, Jan 10, 2006

dmv wrote:
Jan. 5, 2006 — A new chord was scheduled to sound Thursday in the world's slowest and longest lasting concert that is taking a total 639 years to perform.
The abandoned Buchardi church in Halberstadt, eastern Germany, is the venue for a mind-boggling 639-year-long performance of a piece of music by U.S. experimental composer John Cage (1912-1992).
I like slow things. Building an organ throughout the process of playing a concert? Neat.

Excellent! Another reason why John Cage rules. Take that Danny Hillis!