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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... York . The son of a professional musician , Weiss at the age of seventeen had played bassoon with the New York Phil- harmonic under Gustav Mahler . About the same age as Buhlig , he prepared students for studying with Schoenberg ...
... York . The son of a professional musician , Weiss at the age of seventeen had played bassoon with the New York Phil- harmonic under Gustav Mahler . About the same age as Buhlig , he prepared students for studying with Schoenberg ...
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... York anyway . Just before he set out , however , a letter came from Weiss saying he'd be glad to work with Cage for one dollar an hour . New York With Don Sample , Cage set off for New York in mid - April 1934 . They seem to have ...
... York anyway . Just before he set out , however , a letter came from Weiss saying he'd be glad to work with Cage for one dollar an hour . New York With Don Sample , Cage set off for New York in mid - April 1934 . They seem to have ...
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... York , suggesting they work together on a radio program that could be " put across " at CBS . CBS was interested . The network invited Cage to New York to dis- cuss a possible Columbia Workshop program . He and Xenia spent a busy two ...
... York , suggesting they work together on a radio program that could be " put across " at CBS . CBS was interested . The network invited Cage to New York to dis- cuss a possible Columbia Workshop program . He and Xenia spent a busy two ...
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... York , to stay with him and his wealthy wife , the art collector Peggy Guggenheim : " We have a big house on the East River . " Cage and Xenia took a bus to New York , having between them about twenty - five cents . As he later recalled ...
... York , to stay with him and his wealthy wife , the art collector Peggy Guggenheim : " We have a big house on the East River . " Cage and Xenia took a bus to New York , having between them about twenty - five cents . As he later recalled ...
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... York and Montclair ; John Steinbeck ; Peggy Guggenheim TO NEW YORK'S nearly seven and a half million inhabitants , the far - off war looked close . An antiaircraft battery had been set up in Central Park ; coffined corpses or remains of ...
... York and Montclair ; John Steinbeck ; Peggy Guggenheim TO NEW YORK'S nearly seven and a half million inhabitants , the far - off war looked close . An antiaircraft battery had been set up in Central Park ; coffined corpses or remains of ...
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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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