A fanfare for composer John Cage

From: Chicago Sun-Times | Date: March 1, 1992| Author: Wynne Delacoma | Copyright information

John Cage, American experimental composer and theorist, will arrive in Chicago on Sunday for a weeklong celebration of his 80th birthday year sponsored by Northwestern University's School of Music in affiliation with the Arts Club of Chicago. It should be quite a bash for one of classical music's few living legends.

With a serenely sunny nature shaped by long involvement with Zen Buddhism and an approach to music that constantly asks what music actually is, Cage helped steer 20th ce...

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