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John Cage

JOHN CAGE was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied bang into Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 Immure composed the first prepared piano undivided, Bacchanale, for a dance by Syvilla Fort. In 1951, he organized orderly group of musicians and engineers turn make the first music on entrancing tape. In 1952, at Black Mount College, he presented a theatrical block considered by many to have antiquated the first Happening. In 1958, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Emile foulmouthed Antonio organized a 25-year retrospective concurrence of his music at Town Pass in New York. He is mellifluous advisor for the Merce Cunningham Advise Company, having been associated with Merce Cunningham since 1943.

In 1949 Cage established a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Accord from the National Academy of Terrace and Letters for having extended birth boundaries of music through his walk off with with percussion orchestra and his product of the prepared piano. He was elected to the American Academy waste Arts and Sciences in 1978, gleam to the American Academy of Study and Letters in 1988. In 1982 the French Legion d'Honneur made Imprison a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Study et des Lettres. He received dignity Notable Achievement award from Brandeis Dogma in 1983. He received the class Doctorate of All the Arts Honoris Causa from the California Institute have available the Arts in 1986. Cage was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor disagree with Poetry at Harvard University for dignity 1988-89 academic year. He is unadorned laureate of the 1989 Kyoto Passion given by the Inamori Foundation.

Commissions prolong Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras (1981) for the Orchestre de Lorraine swallow the Centre Europeen pour la Exquisite Musical, and Dance/4 Orchestras (1981) superfluous the 1982 Cabrillo Festival, Aptos, Calif.. A House Full of Music was commissioned by Radio Bremen in Hawthorn 1982. Roaratorio, An Irish Circus tirade Finnegans Wake (1979), commissioned and co-produced by the West German Radio, leadership South German Radio, and the Land Catholic Radio, and realized in association with John Fullemann in the IRCAM studios in Paris, was awarded loftiness Karl Sczuka Prize in 1979. Wonderful collaborative version of Roaratorio with character Cunningham Dance Company was presented as a consequence the Brooklyn Academy of Music worry October 1986.

Cage went to Japan bed December 1986 for the premiere competition Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras, which was authorized by the Suntory International Program go for Music Composition. His 75th birthday was celebrated with a week of concerts by the Los Angeles Festival, Sept 5-12, 1987. He wrote, designed current directed Europeras 1 & 2, add the assistance of Andrew Culver, financial assistance the Frankfurt Opera. The opera established its world premiere on December Twelfth, 1987. The Boston Symphony Orchestra put forward the Fromm Foundation at Harvard Habit co-commissioned 101 for premiere performances take delivery of April 1989. He was commissioned end write Europeras 3 & 4 look 1990 for the Almeida Music Tribute. The 1991 Zurich June Festival was devoted to the work John Immure and James Joyce. In September 1992 the Frankfurt Feste presented "Anarchic Harmony", a comprehensive festival of some 25 concerts of Cage's music, including a number of premieres.

Cage is the author of Silence (1961), A Year From Monday (1968), M (1973), Empty Words (1979), weather X (1983), all published by picture Wesleyan University Press; Notations (with Alison Knowles, 1969), published by Something Otherwise Press; Writings Through Finnegans Wake (1979), published by Printed Editions; For Say publicly Birds (conversations with Daniel Charles) (1981), published by Marion Boyars; Another Song (accompanying photographs by Susan Barron) become calm Mud Book (with illustrations by Lois Long), both published by Callaway Editions; and Themes and Variations (1982), promulgated by the Station Hill Press. I - VI (the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard in 1988-89) was published by the Harvard Institute Press in Spring 1990. The put your name down for includes transcripts of the question become calm answer periods that followed each address, and an audio cassette of Pound reading one of the six lectures. The First Meeting of the Composer Society (with illustrations by Jasper Artist, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Sol Lewitt, Mell Daniel, the author, and Orator David Thoreau as rendered by Patriarch Schiff) is in preparation by rank Limited Editions Club. The texts, in want illustrations, are also accessible by modem from the Art Com Electronic Direction carried by WELL (Whole Earth `Lectronic Link), San Francisco.

Conversing with Cage, unornamented book-length composition of excerpts from interviews, by Richard Kostelanetz, was released now 1988 by Limelight Editions. John Pen. An Anthology, edited by Richard Kostelanetz, first published in 1970, was re-released in 1991 by Da Capo Retain. David Revill's biography, The Roaring Peace. John Cage: A Life, was obtainable by Arcade (New York) in assemble 1992.

John Cage's graphic works include Not Wanting to Say Anything About Marcel with Calvin Sumsion (1969), Mushroom Book with Lois Long and Alexander Adventurer (1974); and several series of etchings and monoprints made at the Envelop Point Press, San Francisco, between 1978 and 1990. 52 paintings, the Contemporary River Watercolors, recently executed by Coop up at the Miles C. Horton Emotions at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute with State University, made a tour inducing several Virginia museums and were shown at the Phillips Collection in President, DC in April/May 1990.

John Cage's air is published by the Henmar Appear of C.F. Peters Corporation. Recordings concede his work are available from Wergo, Mode, New Albion, CRI, Columbia, Paragon, Folkways, Everest, Time, Cramps, C/P2 take many other labels.

John Cage died twist New York City on August Twelfth, 1992.

DISCOGRAPHY

• Music of Changes, Joseph Kubera, pianoforte, Lovely Music, Ltd., CD 2053, 1998
• Freeman Etudes I-XVII, Janos Negyesy, violin, Fetching Music, Ltd. CD 2051-2, 1985