Humbly engaged but never over-determined, Cheap Imitation remains John Cage's most devotional and enduring homage to a lifelong contract between the Maestro of Stony Point and Erik Satie. Composed when he was refused persmission to use the arrangement for Satie's 'Socrates' as the 'accompaniment to Merce Cunningham's choreography, Cheap Imitation is a tempered, harmonically rich and wryly simple melodic examination.
