John Cage stands large in 20th century history as one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. As a composer he was an utterly original master of the form, his experimental attitude best ...

“The first step in describing silence,” says California-born Composer John Cage, “is to use silence itself. Matter of fact, I thought of composing a piece like that. It would be very beautiful, and I ...

“I,” says Composer John Cage, “am a hunter.” Last week White Hunter Cage’s latest quarry was on display at Manhattan’s avant-garde off-Broadway theater, Circle in the Square. Even to the ...

Dozens of mask-wearing music enthusiasts gathered at a church in an eastern German town on Saturday to witness the first note change in seven years in the world's longest lasting pipe organ ...

In 1960, experimental composer John Cage went on the TV show I’ve Got a Secret to make music with a mechanical fish, a rubber duck, a water pitcher, and ice cubes. The presenter warned Cage that ...

You don't have to go back to Glenn Gould to consider that things that are possible in the recording studio don't, and often can't, make the same impression on the recital stage. Two new ...

“Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage,” McWhorter wrote. “His most famous piece is ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. So it’s technically ...