Title
Begin again : a biography of John Cage / Kenneth Silverman.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781400044375 (alk. paper)
1400044375 (alk. paper)
Publication Details
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2010.
Language
English
Description
483 p. : ill., music ; 25 cm.
Call Number
ML410.C24 S64 2010
Dewey Decimal Classification
780.92 B
Summary
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.-publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Comes up famous
The art of noise
East and West
Music of changes
The ten thousand things
Indeterminacy
Fractures
HPSCHD
Empty words
Apartment house
Changes and disappearances
Time brackets
Europeras
Anarchic harmony
1992.