JOHN CLARENCE CAGE, JR. John Clarence Cage, Jr. passed away at the age of 55 in Esparto, CA. John Cage, Jr. was employed with Zellerbach for 34 years. He recently moved to Esparto, CA and was employed ...

John Cage stands large in 20th century history as one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. As a composer he was an utterly original master of the form, his experimental attitude best ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. By now, the accomplishments of Cage’s busy and long life are well known. By now, the accomplishments of Cage’s ...

Caitlin Park reflects on the genius of John Cage. Caitlin Park's fourth program as Artist In Residence focused on organic sounds. Throughout the show she brought us a diverse range of examples of ...

The Best Gig I Ever Saw: Arad Evans of NYC-based avant-rock supergroup The Whimbrels travels back in time to a transporting John Cage/Sun Ra gig. Arad Evans: In 1986, not long in the City, I got into ...

The exhibition begins in silence—four minutes and 33 seconds of it. The musician and theorist John Cage composed the groundbreaking piece 4’33”, which contains no sound, as a response to White ...

I recently received a lovely book-style box set called FIRST IMPULSE: THE CREED TAYLOR COLLECTION 50 TH ANNIVERSARY. The music contained within was from Impulse Records’ early releases from around ...

“Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage,” McWhorter wrote. “His most famous piece is ...

The two albums below have plenty in common with one another. Both feature compositions by Americans played by Apartment House, a UK-based ensemble who are featured on Another Timbre often enough to be ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. John Cage, the influential composer and artist, is dead. So it’s technically ...