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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... idea of hosting a radio program for the Boy Scouts . A Tenderfoot himself , he obtained permission from the organization and the approval of station KNX to broadcast a weekly show Friday afternoons . The performing Scouts spoke about ...
... idea of hosting a radio program for the Boy Scouts . A Tenderfoot himself , he obtained permission from the organization and the approval of station KNX to broadcast a weekly show Friday afternoons . The performing Scouts spoke about ...
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... 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 Divinity ...
... 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 Divinity ...
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... idea freed him from Schoenberg's demand for understanding of harmony . He became increasingly interested in ' percussion music , ' a phrase he used but resisted : " Percussion music really is the art of noise and that's what it should ...
... idea freed him from Schoenberg's demand for understanding of harmony . He became increasingly interested in ' percussion music , ' a phrase he used but resisted : " Percussion music really is the art of noise and that's what it should ...
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... ideas about music and sound he would later develop elaborately . In " Listening to Music " ( 1938 ) he argued that conventional forms have wrongly taught us to listen not to sounds but to their organization - to automatically antic ...
... ideas about music and sound he would later develop elaborately . In " Listening to Music " ( 1938 ) he argued that conventional forms have wrongly taught us to listen not to sounds but to their organization - to automatically antic ...
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... idea for [ the ] prepared piano . " Bird may have read Cage's mind correctly . But he did not mention the brass pole episode in his own later account of the prepared piano . According to him , the instrument came into being a year later ...
... idea for [ the ] prepared piano . " Bird may have read Cage's mind correctly . But he did not mention the brass pole episode in his own later account of the prepared piano . According to him , the instrument came into being a year later ...
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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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