Washington offers an 8-day festival celebrating the centennial of John Cage, the polymathic artist — but can it dispel the idea that his compositions are less important than his philosophy?

John Cage's silent musical composition 4'33" is the most revolutionary work - in any medium - of the 20th century. Recent and upcoming exhibitions at HMKV in Dortmund Germany and the Berkeley Art ...

When he was 15 years old, future composer John Cage gave a speech, for an oratory contest, about Pan-American relations, in which he said that America should have her business, industries and all a… ...

Is John Cage’s 4’33” the most radical artwork of the 20th century? When it premiered at a concert hall in Woodstock, N.Y., in August 1952, the 39-year-old composer had already proven himself ...

John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. ... Cage’s conception of silence, though heavily and often debated, went beyond the idea of serene nothingness.

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The instrument has been playing composer John Cage's "ASLSP" since 2001—and it's scheduled to conclude in 2640. ... and the silence should have lasted 28 months.

John Cage and Yoko Ono performing Cage’s “Music Walk” in Tokyo in 1962, ... For the premiere of “0’00,” a follow-up silence exercise to “4’33,” Cage sat at a desk and wrote a ...

“The world is teeming,” wrote John Cage in one of his essays on silence. “Anything can happen.” He could have been talking about the room where I spend most of my time. If there’s one ...