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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... thought- " Would you like us to ? " At just around the time of Cage's self - exploration abroad , about thirty billion dollars had evaporated from the American economy- nearly how much the United States had spent on World War I. John Sr ...
... thought- " Would you like us to ? " At just around the time of Cage's self - exploration abroad , about thirty billion dollars had evaporated from the American economy- nearly how much the United States had spent on World War I. John Sr ...
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... thought himself a passionate teacher as well , who gained satisfaction from imparting his knowledge to beginners : " This was also the Arnold Schoenberg reason why I accepted so many pupils who could not. COMES UP FAMOUS 15.
... thought himself a passionate teacher as well , who gained satisfaction from imparting his knowledge to beginners : " This was also the Arnold Schoenberg reason why I accepted so many pupils who could not. COMES UP FAMOUS 15.
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... thought union with him impossi- ble , and anyway had only temporarily broken up with a former lover , a newspaper reporter . As she put it to Cage , " no double or multiple focus for you in this prenuptial moment . " Although no longer ...
... thought union with him impossi- ble , and anyway had only temporarily broken up with a former lover , a newspaper reporter . As she put it to Cage , " no double or multiple focus for you in this prenuptial moment . " Although no longer ...
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... thought Optical Poem a beautiful piece of exper- imental animation - moving squares , triangles , and circles that ... thoughts that had been germinating in Cage : it " set me on fire . " 2 THE ART OF NOISE 1938-1942 Percussion Music ...
... thought Optical Poem a beautiful piece of exper- imental animation - moving squares , triangles , and circles that ... thoughts that had been germinating in Cage : it " set me on fire . " 2 THE ART OF NOISE 1938-1942 Percussion Music ...
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... thought that we would have things in common and would enjoy one another , " Har- rison recalled , " and of course we did right away . ” The mutual enjoy- ment would be long lasting . But for the moment Harrison offered something else ...
... thought that we would have things in common and would enjoy one another , " Har- rison recalled , " and of course we did right away . ” The mutual enjoy- ment would be long lasting . But for the moment Harrison offered something else ...
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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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