Cage exclaimed this ceremony must be dominated by silence — in other words, it must be similar to the works that had, by then, made him one of the world's most important experimental composers.
His liberating example helped those composers — who had largely been in thrall to European modernism in the years after World War II — broaden their style, including to use traditional music as source material.
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