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The GuardianPaul Morley on music: why Jarvis Cocker represents the futureThe Guardian... the transformative integration of music and art, a continuation of John Cage's challenging observation in 1937 that music was now "the organisation of ...So Wrong, It's Right, Radio 4Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service, BBC 6 MusicIndependentall 2 news articles »
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The Choir Outing, By Nigel FordeIndependentThere is a sequence of poems from the wives of great composers, including a witty snippet from Xavia, John Cage's wife: "I said to him, 'Can't you keep ...
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Los Angeles TimesJohn Rockwell: OperaticLos Angeles TimesI remedied this at first thanks to a high school teacher who played us Shostakovich and Mozart and John Cage. Now, I listen to the classics with joy, ...Critic's Notebook: LA gets an in-depth look at complex and contradictory WagnerLos Angeles Timesall 12 news articles »
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Irish TimesIt's oh so quietIrish TimesThe programme included a sonata by Pierre Boulez, two pieces by the extremely quiet American composer Morton Feldman, John Cage's noisy, absurdist Water ...
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PrefixmagLou Reed's New Work Is For The Dogs, No ReallyPrefixmagSome confused humans may think they have accidentally shown up to a performance of John Cage's "4'33." It all takes place at the Sydney Opera House's ...and more »
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Merce Cunningham Activities Announced for LA, Kicks Off May 23Broadway WorldOf all his collaborations, Merce Cunningham's work with John Cage, his life partner from the 1940s until Cage's death in 1992, had the greatest influence on ...Baryshnikov to join Merce Cunningham Dance Company for benefit at REDCATLos Angeles Times (blog)all 2 news articles »
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Merce Cunningham Dance Co Comes To Walt Disney Concert Hall 6/4-6Broadway WorldRoaratorio is one of the most ambitious and large-scale Cunningham-Cage collaborations. The work features an original recording of John Cage's complex 1979 ...
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The GuardianExhibitions picks of the weekThe GuardianShot in an old Ford factory in California, it documents a rehearsal for John Cage's 4'33" from 2008 when Cunningham was 89. Dancers flit into frame like ...
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NCH Kevin Barry RoomIrish TimesMorton Feldman's For John Cage , the 75-minute-plus violin and piano piece he wrote for a John Cage 70th-birthday celebration in 1982, separates the ...and more »
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No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage's 4'33"New StatesmanNo composition of the 20th century seems so inevitable as John Cage's 4'33". Like the Robert Rauschenberg white canvasses that partly inspired it, ...
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Devotees of classical music to get a strong lineup in 2010Sacramento BeeThe latter half will see the performance of Frederick Rzewski's "De Profundis" and "Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues," plus works by John Cage. ...
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Frederic Franklin: A living ballet icon and ABT tiger (video)Examiner.comMolly Davies made a film (below) on Frederic Franklin in 1982 with text by John Cage. Born in Liverpool, England in 1914, Franklin began dancing in Paris, ...
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Barcelona exhibition showcases work of John CageLateRooms.com (press release)Fans of American composer John Cage may be interested to see a retrospective of his work during their stay at hotels in Barcelona. ...
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Music Matters, Part III: Is that supposed to be music?Waterloo Cedar Falls CourierIf composer John Cage were in the audience, however, he would be enormously happy to experience such a successful performance of his now-famous composition ...and more »
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Music For LandscapesNHPRThat quote, commonly attributed to avant-garde composer John Cage, sums up the musical quality of urban life. Car brakes screeching, sirens blaring, ...
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Dancing through the lens | Philadelphia Inquirer | 12/22/2009Philadelphia InquirerPerformed to John Cage's groundbreaking composition 4'33" - which tasked listeners with regarding ambient sound as music - Dean's Merce (Manchester) is a ...and more »
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Zen Composer Meets Boombox ImpresarioNew York TimesFinding connections between John Cage and Phil Kline, experimental composers from different generations and backgrounds, is not very hard. ...
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Brave troupe follows audience's directionColumbus DispatchIn a tribute to the kind of "chance" work explored by the late American composer/choreographer team of John Cage and Merce Cunningham, Veach and his seven ...and more »
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AV Club MadisonNow Hanging Randomness unites in Cage And Cunningham at MMOCAAV Club MadisonComposer John Cage, the man responsible for the world's first song that consisted entirely of a man sitting idly in ...
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Daily MailPass notes No 2696: 8 minutes 22 secondsguardian.co.ukNot to be confused with: John Cage's pretentious silent composition 4 Minutes 33 Seconds; Nicolas Cage's braindead action movie Gone in 60 Seconds. ...Eight minutes and 22 seconds ... the time it takes us to snap as we reach ...Daily Mailall 4 news articles »
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The star-studded auction of the Merce Cunningham-John Cage collection reveals a little-known chapter in art history—the pair’s relationship with Jasper Johns and
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...An American Sex Slave about Jaycee Dugard, kidnapped and held for 18 years, to the family's dismay. MOTORSPORT great John Surtees had to keep the speed down for his latest challenge as he became the first person to drive a sports car through the Channel...
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Dangerous Minds is a compendium of the new and strange—new ideas, new art forms, new approaches to social issues and new finds from the outer reaches of pop culture. Our editorial policy, such that it is, reflects the interests, whimsies and
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Yoko Ono poses next to the "Wish tree," one of her art installations at the Bluecoat Arts Center in Liverpool in 2008. KARLA MERRIFIELD / CHARLOTTE KEMP MUHL AND SEAN LENNON
Artist, musician, Lennon's widow — a lifetime of trying circumstances has
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OH NO THEY DIDN'T
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NEW YORK, NY.- Christie's highly anticipated
Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale will offer collectors a fascinating
selection of works on November 10, 2009. The sale is led by a major work by
Jean-Michel Basquiat, two seminal paintings from
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Art Knowledge News
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Wherever you go in the Windy City, at whatever time of the night, there’s a good chance that you’re only a stone’s throw away from a rock concert. Why are there so many bands in Chicago? I guess it’s because all these music lovers move here to try and
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MONTREAL.- How to choreograph silence. That was
the challenge issued by artist Tacita Dean to the great American choreographer
Merce Cunningham, who revolutionized modern dance. Through January 3, 2010, the
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
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NEW YORK, NY.- On November 10, 2009 Christie’s
will pay tribute to two of the most influential American artists of the 20th
century in its Post-War & Contemporary Art Evening Sale, offering Property
from the Collection of John Cage and Merce
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The next time someone tells you that one of your ideas is impossible, just think of this bit of advice from the ultimate iconoclast John Cage: "If someone says 'can't,' that shows you what to do." The American experimental composer, who died in 1992,
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Village Voice
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Reading in the Brain: The Science and Evolution of a Human Invention Stanislas Dehaene. Viking, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-670-02110-9
Makeover TV: Selfhood, Citizenship, and Celebrity Brenda R. Weber. Duke Univ., $23.95 (344p) ISBN 978-0-8223-4568-8
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Publishers Weekly
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"The piece was scored for radios because Cage had absolutely no idea what sounds would come from their speakers. This was one of his first works that used chance operations to determine structural elements. His idea was to liberate music from his own
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ArtsJournal
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Aboy born in Centralia, Washington, would
grow up to be one of the most important and revolutionary
choreographers in American history. He would change the course of
modern dance and win all the awards, from the MacArthur Grant to the
French Légion
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The Stranger
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John Cage performing on Nam June Paik's TV special called 'Good Morning Mr. Orwell' from 1984. In the beginning, we see that Cage is joined by Takehisa Kosugi and one other unidentified person. perhaps they were performing a composition or improvisation that they would have done during a Merce Cunningham dance. there is also a cut away to a Joseph Bueys piano performance art piece. more info here: en.wikipedia.org
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When Merce Cunningham died at age 90 last week, he left behind a legacy laced with Minnesota connections. The internationally known choreographer had made regular visits to the Walker Art Center and the College of St. Benedict in Collegeville, Minn.,
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E-mail Share Comments Print Del.icio.us Digg Facebook Mixx Reddit Stumble Upon What is this? Share Creative Coincidences: Cage On Cunningham July 31, 2009 Audio for this story from Fresh Air from WHYY will be available at approx. 5:00 p.m. ET Add to
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Legendary dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham died today. I photographed Merce Cunningham for the first time, on July 3, 1989, just over 20 years ago. My friend Bill Katz had asked me to shoot Merce, John Cage and Jasper Johns, together, for the
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Daniel Madoff and Julie Cunningham in the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's production of XOVER at the Barbican in 2008
Photo: Alastair Muir
Although he was himself a great dancer, he would become better known as one of
modern dance's leading
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The dance piece was created by John Cage and Merce Cunningham in 1968. Merce Cunningham died yesterday aged 90. Read about John Cage and Merce Cunningham at Black Mountain College here.
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On An Overgrown Path
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The dance piece was created by John Cage and Merce Cunningham in 1968. Merce Cunningham died yesterday aged 90. Read about John Cage and Merce Cunningham at Black Mountain College here.
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Net New Music
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One of the trailblazing dancers and choreographers of the 20th century, born and raised in Centralia, Wash., and rocketed into a lifetime of avant-garde performance at Cornish Colllege in Seattle, Merce Cunningham died Sunday in New York City at the
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The Seattle Times
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In the spring of 1981, during a residency at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, choreographer Merce Cunningham and composer John Cage sat down to discuss their work and artistic process. As frequent collaborators, Cage and Cunningham pioneered a new framework of performance. Their novel approach allowed for mediums to exist independently, or rather cohabitate, within a performance, thus abandoning the co-dependent model of dance and music. Cage and Cunningham go on to discuss ...
**NOTE: This is part 1 of 3. Please watch each part after another, preferably in one sitting. This is my music video for John Cage's "Twenty-Six" (1991); it is one of his many Number Pieces. This performance is from an OgreOgress recording. Check out their work at ogreogress.com.
(J.Cage 1939) - One of the first electronic music in the history of world
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industry, artists and citizens of the world will gather at the benefit for the world premiere of the film and musical concert "CANTO 6409", a 22' film that was created and directed by Dino Viani, an independent
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http:www.youtube.com/symphony The YouTube Symphony Orchestra performs John Cage - Aria with Renga (featuring guest artist Measha Brueggergosman) performed at Carnegie Hall. The world's first collaborative online orchestra performed at Carnegie Hall on April 15, 2009.Selected by the YouTube community and several members of the world's most renowned orchestras, the YouTube Symphony Orchestra is made up of over 96 professional and amateur musicians from 30+ countries and territories on six ...
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"Empty Words" was originally a ten-hour deconstruction of excerpts
from Thoreau's Walden into sentences, phrases and ultimately individual
phonemes, a process here telescoped into 30 minutes, Cage's sonorous murmur
offering sparse, guttural noises
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The Independent
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Prior laureates from this field have included the renowned composer and organist Olivier Messiaen; chance-music pioneer John Cage; aleatoric composer Witold Lutoslawski; avant garde music theorist and composer
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Net New Music
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When Merce Cunningham was a young man, time was a pesky element he could seemingly bend to his will. Suspended in the air in a stag leapone leg crooked forward, the other kicked back, torso erect, arm defiantly raisedhe looked capable of hanging in
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New York Magazine
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The Hartt Percussion Ensemble presents a "57-Year Retrospective Musicircus of the Percussion Music of John Cage," a seminal voice in American music and culture. The concert, free and open to the public, is about 85 minutes in length, and will take
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Broadway World
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We often speak of minimalist hot dogs but clearly Doug was pursuing this to an entirely new level. I stared at the meal, trying to comprehend how to eat it— which end to pick up, where to begin, whether ketchup was appropriate.
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