John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, and the musical idea / David W. Bernstein -- Cultural intersections : John Cage in Seattle (1938-1940) / Leta E. Miller -- No ear for music : timbre in the early ...
A prolific writer of prose, poetry, and music as well as a mycologist, teacher, visual artist, and an eloquent spokesman for the avant-garde from the late ’40s until his death in 1992, John Cage is ...
Sixty years ago, an audience of hundreds of spectators in a grand concert hall were surprised to find that the opening number was four minutes and 33 seconds of sheer silence, with no orchestra member ...
In his “Europeras,” Cage dismantled centuries of tradition and expectations, for musicians and audiences alike. A rare revival is coming to Detroit. By Joshua Barone The start was typical: Oper ...