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Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage. By Kenneth Silverman. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010. ISBN 978-1-4000-4437-5. Hardcover. Pp. 483. $40.00. No doubt my expectations were unrealistic. Pulitzer Prize winner takes on the most radical composer of the past century; I expected something remarkable,
Book Reviews 243 And indeed, during Cage's life, few resisted. Surely no composer has been so often interviewed, and for only a few has self-description been so con-founded with biography. Cage's music has, if anything, been served even worse: how it's made, how it works, what it requires from performers and
1 Ιαν 2012 · Pulitzer Prize winner takes on the most radical composer of the past century; I expected something remarkable, even magisterial—something like Leon Edel's biography of Henry James, dauntingly...
John Cage (1912–1992) was without doubt one of the most important and influential figures in twentieth-century music. Pupil of Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, Marcel Duchamp, and Daisetz Teitaro Suzuki among others, he spent much of his career in pursuit of an unusual goal: “giving up control so that sounds can be sounds,” as he put it.
Titled simply, John Cage, Haskins’s latest work comprises a critical biography featuring much, if not all, Cage-related scholarship (in english) as the source for every fact found in the book.
4 Νοε 2013 · Rob Haskins has now also produced a biography of John Cage. Detailed biographical studies on Cage have been scarce: Haskins’s new book is only the fourth of its kind after the biographies by David Revill (1992), David Nicholls (2007), and Kenneth Silverman (2010).
22 Ιουλ 2012 · A new John Cage biography explores the composer’s philosophical awakening through Zen Buddhism and how that conversion changed the sort of music he composed.
