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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... later remembered his time spent in elementary school as dismal. A precocious boy, he got beaten up by other children in his grade, who considered him a sissy. For religious reasons he never defended himself, taking seriously the ...
... later remembered his time spent in elementary school as dismal. A precocious boy, he got beaten up by other children in his grade, who considered him a sissy. For religious reasons he never defended himself, taking seriously the ...
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... later ) . And Cage had invented novel devices to keep his sub level , increase its speed , and greatly improve its safety by running the engines on gasoline rather than potentially explosive storage batteries . A rear admiral of the ...
... later ) . And Cage had invented novel devices to keep his sub level , increase its speed , and greatly improve its safety by running the engines on gasoline rather than potentially explosive storage batteries . A rear admiral of the ...
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... later de- scribed Buhlig , " my first teacher . " Cage had no piano of his own but used the grand piano at the printing shop of his Majorca friend Ward Ritchie an old ranch house once owned by the cowboy movie star William S. Hart ...
... later de- scribed Buhlig , " my first teacher . " Cage had no piano of his own but used the grand piano at the printing shop of his Majorca friend Ward Ritchie an old ranch house once owned by the cowboy movie star William S. Hart ...
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... Later he went abroad , studying Indonesian music with the prince of Java , learning African Pygmy music - ethnic musics he con- sidered equal to European music . He became one of the first Americans to lecture on ethnomusicology , as ...
... Later he went abroad , studying Indonesian music with the prince of Java , learning African Pygmy music - ethnic musics he con- sidered equal to European music . He became one of the first Americans to lecture on ethnomusicology , as ...
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... later crucial : " I think of Music not as self - expression , but as Expression . " In the same month , he dedicated to Pauline a rigidly structured Composition for 3 Voices . Cage's romantic , physical involvement with Schindler began ...
... later crucial : " I think of Music not as self - expression , but as Expression . " In the same month , he dedicated to Pauline a rigidly structured Composition for 3 Voices . Cage's romantic , physical involvement with Schindler began ...
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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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