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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... artist or composer . Cage wished to devote one lecture to Arnold Schoenberg , some of whose music he had heard in Berlin . He telephoned Richard Buhlig in Los Angeles . Now in his mid - forties , praised for his performances of Bach and ...
... artist or composer . Cage wished to devote one lecture to Arnold Schoenberg , some of whose music he had heard in Berlin . He telephoned Richard Buhlig in Los Angeles . Now in his mid - forties , praised for his performances of Bach and ...
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... artists to America . Many of the refugees made their home in California , as did Schoen- berg . Just turned sixty , he rented a house at Canyon Cove , in the Holly- wood Hills , and two years after moved to Brentwood , where he lived ...
... artists to America . Many of the refugees made their home in California , as did Schoen- berg . Just turned sixty , he rented a house at Canyon Cove , in the Holly- wood Hills , and two years after moved to Brentwood , where he lived ...
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... artist at her trade whose covering materials included python . Cage and Xenia both learned to bind books - Xenia most actively , though he enjoyed designing the covers . The shop also supplied performers and instruments for his new ...
... artist at her trade whose covering materials included python . Cage and Xenia both learned to bind books - Xenia most actively , though he enjoyed designing the covers . The shop also supplied performers and instruments for his new ...
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... Artists ' League a lecture called " The Future of Music : Credo . " He treated percussion music as a hinge , a contemporary tran- sition " from keyboard - influenced music to the all - sound music of the future . " Prophetically he ...
... Artists ' League a lecture called " The Future of Music : Credo . " He treated percussion music as a hinge , a contemporary tran- sition " from keyboard - influenced music to the all - sound music of the future . " Prophetically he ...
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... artistic interests by hosting a casual salon at the laboratory for such guests as Joseph Campbell , Henry Miller , and John Steinbeck . Steinbeck , a close friend , had accompanied Ricketts on some expeditions to study marine life , and ...
... artistic interests by hosting a casual salon at the laboratory for such guests as Joseph Campbell , Henry Miller , and John Steinbeck . Steinbeck , a close friend , had accompanied Ricketts on some expeditions to study marine life , and ...
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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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