Begin Again: A Biography of John CageKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 19 paź 2010 - 496 John Cage was a man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents: musician, inventor, composer, poet. He became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Now award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. We follow Cage from his Los Angeles childhood—his father was a successful inventor—through his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of creativity in him and, after his return to the States, into his studies with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg. We see Cage’s early experiments with sound and percussion instruments, and watch as he develops his signature work with prepared piano, radio static, random noise, and silence. We learn of his many friendships over the years with other composers, artists, philosophers, and writers; of his early marriage and several lovers, both female and male; and of his long relationship with choreographer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would collaborate on radically unusual dances that continue to influence the worlds of both music and dance. Drawing on interviews with Cage’s contemporaries and friends and on the enormous archive of his letters and writings, and including photographs, facsimiles of musical scores, and Web links to illustrative sections of his compositions, Silverman gives us a biography of major significance: a revelatory portrait of one of the most important cultural figures of the twentieth century. |
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A Biography of John Cage Kenneth Silverman. September 5, I9Iz—about nine months before the triumph of Peace Keeper—Lucretia gave birth in Los Angeles to another son. The couple again named him john Milton Cage-.]r. Cagejr. and his ...
A Biography of John Cage Kenneth Silverman. September 5, I9Iz—about nine months before the triumph of Peace Keeper—Lucretia gave birth in Los Angeles to another son. The couple again named him john Milton Cage-.]r. Cagejr. and his ...
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... began each program with an inspira- tional ten - minute talk by some ... became a contributing editor of the school's French newspaper . As a senior he represented ... Cage Jr. argued that Uncle Sam had rid many countries of the curse of ...
... began each program with an inspira- tional ten - minute talk by some ... became a contributing editor of the school's French newspaper . As a senior he represented ... Cage Jr. argued that Uncle Sam had rid many countries of the curse of ...
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... Cage focused his energy and single - minded interest on music . He began in the summer of 1932 by composing some songs for voice and piano . In choosing texts he drew on different facets of his last few years . His reading of Gertrude ...
... Cage focused his energy and single - minded interest on music . He began in the summer of 1932 by composing some songs for voice and piano . In choosing texts he drew on different facets of his last few years . His reading of Gertrude ...
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... Cage asked Buhlig if he would be willing to play Schoenberg piano pieces for his lecture audience . Buhlig declined , but they became friendly . Cage gave him a painting he had made , and began taking piano lessons from him : " a ...
... Cage asked Buhlig if he would be willing to play Schoenberg piano pieces for his lecture audience . Buhlig declined , but they became friendly . Cage gave him a painting he had made , and began taking piano lessons from him : " a ...
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... Cage felt that he had been a docile student . Schoenberg asked many questions , particularly about his work with Weiss . Cage believed that the questions exposed his ignorance , especially of the lit- erature of symphonies , string ...
... Cage felt that he had been a docile student . Schoenberg asked many questions , particularly about his work with Weiss . Cage believed that the questions exposed his ignorance , especially of the lit- erature of symphonies , string ...
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MUSIC OF CHANGES | 79 |
THE TEN THOUSAND THINGS | 121 |
INDETERMINACY | 152 |
FRACTURES | 182 |
HPSCHD | 210 |
EMPTY WORDS | 244 |
APARTMENT HOUSE | 275 |
CHANGES AND DISAPPEARANCES | 302 |
TIME BRACKETS | 324 |
EUROPERAS | 351 |
ANARCHIC HARMONY | 382 |
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