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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... visited Germany too , before moving on to Italy . He enjoyed the baby octopuses in the fish markets of " dirty and happy " Naples , and the sunny paths and paddleboats of Capri - where he met his first lover . Don Sample was a slender ...
... visited Germany too , before moving on to Italy . He enjoyed the baby octopuses in the fish markets of " dirty and happy " Naples , and the sunny paths and paddleboats of Capri - where he met his first lover . Don Sample was a slender ...
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... visited Robert Graves and Laura Riding . The two poets lived and ran a private press on the other side of the island , in a steeply sloping fishing village . Graves , in white trousers , explained that they had moved there on the ...
... visited Robert Graves and Laura Riding . The two poets lived and ran a private press on the other side of the island , in a steeply sloping fishing village . Graves , in white trousers , explained that they had moved there on the ...
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... visited him , Cage too had decided that Schoen- berg was the greatest living composer . He asked to be taught what- ever Schoenberg wanted . Schoenberg allowed him to enter a class in musical analysis at his Hollywood home - twenty ...
... visited him , Cage too had decided that Schoen- berg was the greatest living composer . He asked to be taught what- ever Schoenberg wanted . Schoenberg allowed him to enter a class in musical analysis at his Hollywood home - twenty ...
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... apparently drove to Ojai two or three times , the visits leaving him physically thrilled . " I am luminous , " he wrote after another trip . " I am on the topmost peaks of sensitivity .... I simmer . COMES UP FAMOUS 19.
... apparently drove to Ojai two or three times , the visits leaving him physically thrilled . " I am luminous , " he wrote after another trip . " I am on the topmost peaks of sensitivity .... I simmer . COMES UP FAMOUS 19.
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... visited the couple after they married , Cage spoke to him on the back porch and would not let him in . " It was very awk- ward , and I finally left , " Hay recalled . " I could only guess I looked too obvious . " After agreeing to marry ...
... visited the couple after they married , Cage spoke to him on the back porch and would not let him in . " It was very awk- ward , and I finally left , " Hay recalled . " I could only guess I looked too obvious . " After agreeing to marry ...
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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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