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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... piece before coming on to play it , when he apologized to the audience , saying it was too 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 ...
... piece before coming on to play it , when he apologized to the audience , saying it was too 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 ...
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... piece of exper- imental animation - moving squares , triangles , and circles that made a sort of visual music . And one memorable moment relieved the tedium of his work on it . Fischinger was interested in supernatural phenomena and ...
... piece of exper- imental animation - moving squares , triangles , and circles that made a sort of visual music . And one memorable moment relieved the tedium of his work on it . Fischinger was interested in supernatural phenomena and ...
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... piece called Metamorphosis , percussion music for dances by children in " Mexican Fiesta . " But his most inno- vative compositions reflect the thinking in " Credo . " His Imaginary Landscape No. 1 ( April 1939 ) is perhaps the first ...
... piece called Metamorphosis , percussion music for dances by children in " Mexican Fiesta . " But his most inno- vative compositions reflect the thinking in " Credo . " His Imaginary Landscape No. 1 ( April 1939 ) is perhaps the first ...
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... piece decades . earlier in which he hit the keyboard with his whole forearm . Cage cli- maxed Construction in Metal by slamming it with a board that covered all the keys , and had a female performer , probably Xenia , smash a lime ...
... piece decades . earlier in which he hit the keyboard with his whole forearm . Cage cli- maxed Construction in Metal by slamming it with a board that covered all the keys , and had a female performer , probably Xenia , smash a lime ...
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... piece for a dancer in Bird's company . Syvilla Fort the first African - American student at Cornish he tried to find a twelve - tone row that to his ear sounded African . Henry Cow- ell had long been interested in altering the sound of ...
... piece for a dancer in Bird's company . Syvilla Fort the first African - American student at Cornish he tried to find a twelve - tone row that to his ear sounded African . Henry Cow- ell had long been interested in altering the sound of ...
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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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