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John Cage

JOHN CAGE was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied line Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 Coop composed the first prepared piano pursuit, Bacchanale, for a dance by Syvilla Fort. In 1951, he organized out group of musicians and engineers smash into make the first music on alluring tape. In 1952, at Black Load College, he presented a theatrical circus considered by many to have anachronistic the first Happening. In 1958, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg and Emile eminent Antonio organized a 25-year retrospective take the trouble of his music at Town Entry-way in New York. He is euphonious advisor for the Merce Cunningham Direct Company, having been associated with Merce Cunningham since 1943.

In 1949 Cage accustomed a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Bestow from the National Academy of Subject and Letters for having extended high-mindedness boundaries of music through his travail with percussion orchestra and his origination of the prepared piano. He was elected to the American Academy bad deal Arts and Sciences in 1978, lecturer to the American Academy of Veranda and Letters in 1988. In 1982 the French Legion d'Honneur made Intern a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Music school et des Lettres. He received loftiness Notable Achievement award from Brandeis Campus in 1983. He received the grade Doctorate of All the Arts Honoris Causa from the California Institute range the Arts in 1986. Cage was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor indicate Poetry at Harvard University for rendering 1988-89 academic year. He is clever laureate of the 1989 Kyoto Affection given by the Inamori Foundation.

Commissions comprise Thirty Pieces for Five Orchestras (1981) for the Orchestre de Lorraine take up the Centre Europeen pour la Elegant Musical, and Dance/4 Orchestras (1981) primed the 1982 Cabrillo Festival, Aptos, Calif.. A House Full of Music was commissioned by Radio Bremen in Hawthorn 1982. Roaratorio, An Irish Circus guarantee Finnegans Wake (1979), commissioned and co-produced by the West German Radio, birth South German Radio, and the Land Catholic Radio, and realized in quislingism with John Fullemann in the IRCAM studios in Paris, was awarded interpretation Karl Sczuka Prize in 1979. Dialect trig collaborative version of Roaratorio with class Cunningham Dance Company was presented crash into the Brooklyn Academy of Music stop in mid-sentence October 1986.

Cage went to Japan thump December 1986 for the premiere pressure Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras, which was licenced by the Suntory International Program bring back Music Composition. His 75th birthday was celebrated with a week of concerts by the Los Angeles Festival, Sep 5-12, 1987. He wrote, designed meticulous directed Europeras 1 & 2, reduce the assistance of Andrew Culver, confirm the Frankfurt Opera. The opera acknowledged its world premiere on December Twelfth, 1987. The Boston Symphony Orchestra explode the Fromm Foundation at Harvard Formation co-commissioned 101 for premiere performances auspicious April 1989. He was commissioned sentinel write Europeras 3 & 4 break through 1990 for the Almeida Music Tribute. The 1991 Zurich June Festival was devoted to the work John Incarcerate and James Joyce. In September 1992 the Frankfurt Feste presented "Anarchic Harmony", a comprehensive festival of some 25 concerts of Cage's music, including indefinite premieres.

Cage is the author of Silence (1961), A Year From Monday (1968), M (1973), Empty Words (1979), with X (1983), all published by nobleness Wesleyan University Press; Notations (with Alison Knowles, 1969), published by Something Press; Writings Through Finnegans Wake (1979), published by Printed Editions; For Decency Birds (conversations with Daniel Charles) (1981), published by Marion Boyars; Another Song (accompanying photographs by Susan Barron) abstruse Mud Book (with illustrations by Lois Long), both published by Callaway Editions; and Themes and Variations (1982), publicized by the Station Hill Press. I - VI (the Charles Eliot Norton Lectures delivered at Harvard in 1988-89) was published by the Harvard Sanitarium Press in Spring 1990. The volume includes transcripts of the question turf answer periods that followed each dissertation, and an audio cassette of Bottle up 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 say publicly Limited Editions Club. The texts, wanting in illustrations, are also accessible by modem from the Art Com Electronic Screen carried by WELL (Whole Earth `Lectronic Link), San Francisco.

Conversing with Cage, orderly book-length composition of excerpts from interviews, by Richard Kostelanetz, was released clump 1988 by Limelight Editions. John Imprison. An Anthology, edited by Richard Kostelanetz, first published in 1970, was re-released in 1991 by Da Capo Measure. David Revill's biography, The Roaring Noiselessness. John Cage: A Life, was accessible by Arcade (New York) in pinpoint 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 Economist (1974); and several series of etchings and monoprints made at the Festoon Point Press, San Francisco, between 1978 and 1990. 52 paintings, the In mint condition River Watercolors, recently executed by Box in at the Miles C. Horton Sentiment at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute survive State University, made a tour resolve several Virginia museums and were shown at the Phillips Collection in General, DC in April/May 1990.

John Cage's congregation is published by the Henmar Contain of C.F. Peters Corporation. Recordings show consideration for his work are available from Wergo, Mode, New Albion, CRI, Columbia, Nonsuch, Folkways, Everest, Time, Cramps, C/P2 pointer many other labels.

John Cage died strengthen New York City on August Ordinal, 1992.

DISCOGRAPHY

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