John Cage: Music, Philosophy, and Intention, 1933--1950 explores the early part of John Cage’s life and career, concentrating on the "pre-chance" period from roughly 1933 to 1950. These essays conside
John Cage (1912--1992) defined a radical practice of composition that changed thecourse of modern music and shaped a new conceptual horizon for postwar art. Famous for his use ofchance and "silence" i
