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A Man Of Extraordinary And Seemingly Limitless Talentsmusician, Inventor, Composer, Poet, And Even Amateur Mycologistjohn Cage Became A Central Figure Of The Avantgarde Early In His Life And Remained At That Pinnacle Until His Death In 1992 At The Age Of Eighty. Awardwinning Biographer Kenneth Silverman Gives Us The First Comprehensive Life Of This Remarkable Artist. Silverman Begins With Cages Childhood In Interwar Los Angeles And His Stay In Paris From 1930 To 1931, Where Immersion In The Burgeoning New Musical And Artistic Movements Triggered An Explosion Of His Creativity. Cage Continued His Studies In The United States With The Seminal Modern Composer Arnold Schoenberg, And He Soon Began The Experiments With Sound And Percussion Instruments That Would Develop Into His Signature Work With Prepared Piano, Radio Static, Random Noise, And Silence. Cages Unorthodox Methods Still Influence Artists In A Wide Range Of Genres And Media. Silverman Concurrently Follows Cages Rich Personal Life, From His Early Marriage To His Lifelong Personal And Professional Partnership With Choreographer Merce Cunningham, As Well As His Friendships Over The Years With Other Composers, Artists, Philosophers, And Writers.Drawing On Interviews With Cages 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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