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Revealing unpublished interviews with John Cage and some of his closest colleagues, including Virgil Thomson, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pauline Oliveros, Merce Cunningham, and David Tudor.
John Cage was one of America’s most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992. But he was also a much-admired writer and artist, and a uniquely attractive personality able to present his ideas engagingly wherever he went. As an interview subject he was a consummate professional.
The main source of
Cage Talk: Dialogues with and about John Cage is a panoply of vivid and compulsively readable interviews given to Peter Dickinson in the late 1980s for a BBC Radio 3 documentary. The original BBC program lasted an hour, but the full discussions with Cage and many of the main figures connected with him were not published until the first edition of this book.
Cage Talk also includes earlier BBC interviews with Cage, including ones by the renowned literary critic Frank Kermode and art critic David Sylvester. And Dickinson, the editor of this volume, contributes little-known source material about Cage’s
Musicircus and
Roaratorio as well as a substantial introduction exploring the multiple roles that Cage’s varied and challenging output played during much of the twentieth century and continuesto play in the early twenty-first.
Apart from the long interview with Cage himself, there are discussions with Bonnie Bird, Earle Brown, Merce Cunningham, Minna Lederman, Otto Luening, Jackson Mac Low, Peadar Mercier, Pauline Oliveros, John Rockwell, Kurt Schwertsik, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Virgil Thomson, David Tudor, La Monte Young, and Paul Zukovsky. Most of the interviews were given to Peter Dickinson but there are others involving Rebecca Boyle, Anthony Cheevers, Michael Oliver, and Roger Smalley.
Peter Dickinson, British composer and pianist, is Emeritus Professor, University of Keele and University of London, and has written or edited several books about twentieth-century music, including
Copland Connotations [Boydell Press, 2002] and
The Music of Lennox Berkeley [Boydell Press, 2003].
John Cage was one of America’s most renowned composers from the 1940s until his death in 1992. But he was also a much-admired writer and artist, and a uniquely attractive personality able to present his ideas engagingly wherever he went. As an interview subject he was a consummate professional.
The main source of
Cage Talk: Dialogues with and about John Cage is a panoply of vivid and compulsively readable interviews given to Peter Dickinson in the late 1980s for a BBC Radio 3 documentary. The original BBC program lasted an hour, but the full discussions with Cage and many of the main figures connected with him were not published until the first edition of this book.
Cage Talk also includes earlier BBC interviews with Cage, including ones by the renowned literary critic Frank Kermode and art critic David Sylvester. And Dickinson, the editor of this volume, contributes little-known source material about Cage’s
Musicircus and
Roaratorio as well as a substantial introduction exploring the multiple roles that Cage’s varied and challenging output played during much of the twentieth century and continuesto play in the early twenty-first.
Apart from the long interview with Cage himself, there are discussions with Bonnie Bird, Earle Brown, Merce Cunningham, Minna Lederman, Otto Luening, Jackson Mac Low, Peadar Mercier, Pauline Oliveros, John Rockwell, Kurt Schwertsik, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Virgil Thomson, David Tudor, La Monte Young, and Paul Zukovsky. Most of the interviews were given to Peter Dickinson but there are others involving Rebecca Boyle, Anthony Cheevers, Michael Oliver, and Roger Smalley.
Peter Dickinson, British composer and pianist, is Emeritus Professor, University of Keele and University of London, and has written or edited several books about twentieth-century music, including
Copland Connotations [Boydell Press, 2002] and
The Music of Lennox Berkeley [Boydell Press, 2003].
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Table of Content
Introduction by Peter DickinsonJohn Cage
Merce Cunningham
Bonnie Bird
David Tudor
Jackson Mac Low
Minna Lederman
Virgil Thomson
Otto Luening
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Earle Brown
Kurt Schwertsik
La Monte Young
John Rockwell
Pauline Oliveros
Paul Zukofsky
Cage with David Sylvester and Roger Smalley
Cage with Frank Kermode
Cage with Michael Oliver
About Musicircus, Cage with Peter Dickinson
Introducing Roaratorio, Cage, Cunningham, and Peadar Mercier with Peter Dickinson
Europeras and After, Cage with Anthony Cheevers
Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 294 ● ISBN 9781580468053 ● File size 2.3 MB ● Editor Peter Dickinson ● Publisher Boydell & Brewer ● City Rochester ● Country US ● Published 2006 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 5216545 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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