One Thousand Hear Change of Note in World's Longest Concert

by PEP | July 5, 2008 at 12:08 pm

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At least it wouldn't be hard to learn to play this composition--unlike the boogie woogie and classical that I love to play!

More than 1,000 music-lovers showed up on Saturday, July 5, in a German town to hear a change of note in the longest-running and slowest piece of music ever composed.

Eccentric US composer John Cage (1912-1992) planned his composition to last 639 years, meaning more than a dozen generations of musicians will be needed to play it on an automatic, as-yet unfinished organ at Halberstadt, Germany.

Entitled ORGAN2/ASLSP, it began in 2001 and has so far reached its sixth note. The second part of the name means "as slow as possible."