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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... gave birth in Los Angeles to another son. The couple again named him john Milton Cage-.]r. Cagejr. and his parents moved several times during his childhood and youth. For a while John Sr. took the family to Detroit, where he worked on ...
... gave birth in Los Angeles to another son. The couple again named him john Milton Cage-.]r. Cagejr. and his parents moved several times during his childhood and youth. For a while John Sr. took the family to Detroit, where he worked on ...
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... gave up the idea . Having excelled in high school and skipped some grades , Cage Jr. entered Pomona College the same month that he turned sixteen . But his college career was brief and without academic distinction . The future Doctor of ...
... gave up the idea . Having excelled in high school and skipped some grades , Cage Jr. entered Pomona College the same month that he turned sixteen . But his college career was brief and without academic distinction . The future Doctor of ...
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... gave Cage the beginnings of an education in modern literature by introducing him to transition . This excitingly avant - garde literary magazine had begun publication in Paris in 1927. In its pages Cage read works by Gertrude Stein and ...
... gave Cage the beginnings of an education in modern literature by introducing him to transition . This excitingly avant - garde literary magazine had begun publication in Paris in 1927. In its pages Cage read works by Gertrude Stein and ...
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... gave him a painting he had made , and began taking piano lessons from him : " a magnificent lion - like person , " as he later de- scribed Buhlig , " my first teacher . " Cage had no piano of his own but used the grand piano at the ...
... gave him a painting he had made , and began taking piano lessons from him : " a magnificent lion - like person , " as he later de- scribed Buhlig , " my first teacher . " Cage had no piano of his own but used the grand piano at the ...
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... gave " a racial talk . " Sometimes he borrowed his mother's car to chauffeur Schoenberg . Early in 1937 he was invited to Schoenberg's house to hear a rehearsal of his teacher's new Fourth String Quartet , and apparently stay for dinner ...
... gave " a racial talk . " Sometimes he borrowed his mother's car to chauffeur Schoenberg . Early in 1937 he was invited to Schoenberg's house to hear a rehearsal of his teacher's new Fourth String Quartet , and apparently stay for dinner ...
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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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