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. dollars a month to live on . About half ... Cage not to write music there , but for the sake of inspiration rather to ... felt able now to present himself to Arnold Schoenberg . Arnold Schoenberg ...
A Biography of John Cage Kenneth Silverman. dollars a month to live on . About half ... Cage not to write music there , but for the sake of inspiration rather to ... felt able now to present himself to Arnold Schoenberg . Arnold Schoenberg ...
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... Cage often reported to Weiss about his progress . He learned something valuable at every class , he wrote , but felt dissatisfied , " disturbed fundamentally by the mediocrity induced by the class members . Including myself , for it ...
... Cage often reported to Weiss about his progress . He learned something valuable at every class , he wrote , but felt dissatisfied , " disturbed fundamentally by the mediocrity induced by the class members . Including myself , for it ...
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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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... Cage met her , Pauline was also associate editor of a lit- erary magazine whose subscribers included Countee Cullen ... felt myself expanding with a big heart ' till for a moment I was out of my mind and only tremendously alive . " Cage ...
... Cage met her , Pauline was also associate editor of a lit- erary magazine whose subscribers included Countee Cullen ... felt myself expanding with a big heart ' till for a moment I was out of my mind and only tremendously alive . " Cage ...
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A Biography of John Cage Kenneth Silverman. world and more " —at the same time he ... Cage , she was rambunctious and frisky . While still a high school student ... felt enthralled by Xenia . According to his later account , they first met ...
A Biography of John Cage Kenneth Silverman. world and more " —at the same time he ... Cage , she was rambunctious and frisky . While still a high school student ... felt enthralled by Xenia . According to his later account , they first met ...
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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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