In 1958 he participated in the Cage quizzes Lascia as an expert on mushrooms, and won the bet, taking home 5 million lire . During the show he performed a concert for coffee makers, under the astonished eyes of Mike Bongiorno and the Italian public. There was that memorable dialogue between the presenter and Cage when they leave, victorious. Bongiorno's words show us the difficulty of approaching contemporary music.
MB : "Bravissimo, bravo bravo bravo bravo. Very good Bravo, bravo Cage. Well, Mr. Cage has shown us clearly that if they wanted to mushrooms ... so it was not just a character that came on this stage to make performances of music strambissima weird, so it's really a character preparation. I knew because I remember she told us that lived in the woods near New York and that every day he went for walks and collect mushrooms. "
JC : "Thanks a. .. mushrooms, and Rai and all people of Italy" .
MB : "To all the people of Italy. Bravo Mr. Cage goodbye and bon voyage, he returned to America or stay here? ".
JC : " My music is ".
MB : " Ah, she goes away and his music is still here, but it was better the opposite: that his music would go away and she remained here. "
(source wikipedia)
