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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... CENTER OF JESSY AND ANS OF WEDGES ; Et en open Mages . SECOND PIANO Table of piano preparations the strings . The sound so much intrigued him , Bird recalled , " that he got totally involved in rolling this thing up and down ...
... CENTER OF JESSY AND ANS OF WEDGES ; Et en open Mages . SECOND PIANO Table of piano preparations the strings . The sound so much intrigued him , Bird recalled , " that he got totally involved in rolling this thing up and down ...
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... Center for Experimental Music ; Third Construction With the ending of the Mills summer session , at the beginning of August 1940 , Cage spent a full year working on an ambitious new project . He would establish and direct his own Center ...
... Center for Experimental Music ; Third Construction With the ending of the Mills summer session , at the beginning of August 1940 , Cage spent a full year working on an ambitious new project . He would establish and direct his own Center ...
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... Center with Leopold Stokowski , who promised to " do something about it " and wrote on Cage's behalf to wealthy Edsel Ford . He secured an interview with an executive engi- neer at General Electric , hoping to get the company to donate ...
... Center with Leopold Stokowski , who promised to " do something about it " and wrote on Cage's behalf to wealthy Edsel Ford . He secured an interview with an executive engi- neer at General Electric , hoping to get the company to donate ...
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... Center . " I am like a horse now with blinders : I can see only this one future . " The all - consuming effort left him and Xenia " in a very unsettled state , " he said . His dozens of appeals and applications attracted much interest ...
... Center . " I am like a horse now with blinders : I can see only this one future . " The all - consuming effort left him and Xenia " in a very unsettled state , " he said . His dozens of appeals and applications attracted much interest ...
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... Center for Experimental Music in Chicago , could funding be located . Cage felt drawn to the offer . His own concern with new mate- rials and electrical means , he said , " makes my work a counterpart in music of the work in visual arts ...
... Center for Experimental Music in Chicago , could funding be located . Cage felt drawn to the offer . His own concern with new mate- rials and electrical means , he said , " makes my work a counterpart in music of the work in visual arts ...
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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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