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  1.                                                                                 MILESTONES, Page 17
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  4.     DIED. John Cage, 79, idiosyncratic American composer; in New
  5. York City. An indifferent musician, but one of the century's
  6. seminal theoreticians, Cage wrote music for radios, blenders,
  7. flowerpots, whistles, cowbells, tape recorders and prepared
  8. pianos. "There is no noise," he once said, "only sound." The son
  9. of an inventor, the California-born Cage eventually settled in
  10. New York City, where he spent the last 50 years of his life,
  11. often in the company of his lifelong companion, the
  12. choreographer Merce Cunningham, for whom he wrote many pieces.
  13. Cage's free-ranging eclecticism influenced three generations of
  14. American composers, including Morton Feldman, Frederic Rzewski
  15. and Philip Glass.
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