“You won’t hear anything: you’ll hear everything”

• There should be food and drink as at a real circus: ideally all the senses should be employed

• Use the greatest possible variety of participants – church groups, children’s choirs etc.

• Dancing can be included

• Do not charge admission; no fees are to be paid to participants; use only people who are willing to take part

• The piece ‘should be fun’ – people ‘should get the joyousness of the anarchic spirit’

• Don’t pay any attention to the discrepancy between, say, a clavichord recital and a jazz band – at one occasion people went along and put their ears to the clavichord!

• Limit the time for a rock group because of the din, but amplification is allowed if the group normally uses it

• Three hours would be a ‘reasonable’ duration


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