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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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