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Of course John Cage is on there twice. Amazing.

Rite of spring is the classic but people often forget just how bonkers george antheil's concerts were. The dude in general was crazy, he called himself the "bad boy of music" and wrote some incredibly zany stuff. Ballet mechanique and the airplane sonata are two of my favorite works of his

"you'd better leave the ballet in the second act, so that the jockeys can come in late and not miss it" is probably my fav

"Artist Man Ray reportedly punched a man in the nose, Marcel Duchamp began hurling obscenities at a fellow audience member, and Erik Satie was heard shouting, "What precision! What precision!"" I don't even know what the modern equivalent of this would be. Thom Yorke heckling as ND Stephenson beats up Eric Andre at an Imagine Dragons concert.

this article's an alltime fave for me. one of my favourite lines: "The event came to be known as the Skandalkonzert"