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- (Aug. 24, 1992) Died:John Cage
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Aug. 24, 1992 George Bush: The Fight of His Life
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 17
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- <p> DIED. John Cage, 79, idiosyncratic American composer; in New
- York City. An indifferent musician, but one of the century's
- seminal theoreticians, Cage wrote music for radios, blenders,
- flowerpots, whistles, cowbells, tape recorders and prepared
- pianos. "There is no noise," he once said, "only sound." The son
- of an inventor, the California-born Cage eventually settled in
- New York City, where he spent the last 50 years of his life,
- often in the company of his lifelong companion, the
- choreographer Merce Cunningham, for whom he wrote many pieces.
- Cage's free-ranging eclecticism influenced three generations of
- American composers, including Morton Feldman, Frederic Rzewski
- and Philip Glass.
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