SILENCE IS BEHOLDEN.(alleged copyright infringement of composer John Cage's work in impresario Mike Batt's production of music recording Classical Graffiti)(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 30-SEP-02

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Mike Batt is Britain's premier impresario of crossover classical music, having orchestrated the careers of such stars as Vanessa-Mae (a sexy Thai-Chinese violinist), Bond (a sexy four-piece multiethnic classical group), and the Planets (a sexy eight-piece multiethnic classical group). But many people still think of him as the musical muscle behind "The Wombles," a mid-seventies television series that featured a group of fuzzy, singing creatures who picked up trash from city streets, put it into "tidy bags," and reused it in creative ways. It is perhaps fitting, then, that Batt recently did some recycling himself, though with results that were far from tidy.

On the Planets' debut...

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