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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... difficult, and loved. In his early teens, during the mid-1920s, Cage _]r. grew seriously interested in radio. He was not alone. His father invented a crystal set that could be plugged into an ordinary electric light system; the I926 Los ...
... difficult, and loved. In his early teens, during the mid-1920s, Cage _]r. grew seriously interested in radio. He was not alone. His father invented a crystal set that could be plugged into an ordinary electric light system; the I926 Los ...
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... difficult , and loved . In his early teens , during the mid - 1920s , Cage Jr. grew seriously interested in radio . He was not alone . His father invented a crystal set that could be plugged into an ordinary electric light system ; the ...
... difficult , and loved . In his early teens , during the mid - 1920s , Cage Jr. grew seriously interested in radio . He was not alone . His father invented a crystal set that could be plugged into an ordinary electric light system ; the ...
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... difficult for him to perform . So Cage played it himself as a piano piece , " finger by finger , note by note , " he said ; " There was nothing else to do . " According to one listener , the work- shop members believed that Cage ...
... difficult for him to perform . So Cage played it himself as a piano piece , " finger by finger , note by note , " he said ; " There was nothing else to do . " According to one listener , the work- shop members believed that Cage ...
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... difficult to maintain himself . He lamented " all the trouble I'm seeing trying to get established with an income . " Some economic relief came through summer - session work in the dance department at Mills Col- lege . Founded in ...
... difficult to maintain himself . He lamented " all the trouble I'm seeing trying to get established with an income . " Some economic relief came through summer - session work in the dance department at Mills Col- lege . Founded in ...
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... difficult for him to do much . " But percussion scores did arrive . Some came from Cage's friends Lou Harrison and Henry Cowell . Another from Johanna Beyer , a Ger- man émigré who dedicated to him her Three Movements for Percussion ...
... difficult for him to do much . " But percussion scores did arrive . Some came from Cage's friends Lou Harrison and Henry Cowell . Another from Johanna Beyer , a Ger- man émigré who dedicated to him her Three Movements for Percussion ...
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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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