Year/Genre: 1950s, Soundtrack (Classical music)
Matrix #: H-71202
Condition: VG, sound good, very light marks

Cultural Facts:

1. The “prepared piano” idea—placing objects on or between piano strings—was a direct challenge to what counted as “music,” turning a traditional instrument into a new percussion orchestra and making the act of listening part of the experiment.

2. Cage’s work sits inside a wider post-WWII cultural shift where artists questioned authority, tradition, and even the definition of art itself—parallel to similar revolts happening in visual art, theater, and later rock experimentation.

3. Lukas Foss represents a different but related postwar current: composers reworking older forms (“baroque” references) through modern language, reflecting a period when tradition was being both dismantled and recycled at the same time.

Price Suggestions:
NM: $18–24
VG+: $13–17
VG: $8–12
G+: $5–7

1/3/26 CC