John Cage

Also Credited As:

John M Cage
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Biography

One of the giants of Twentieth Century music and the international art scene, John Cage began his ventures into the avant-garde as a student of Arnold Schoenberg but soon found even the master's atonalities and use of a twelve-tone scale too conventional for his own ideas. His 1943 concert debut found him using electric buzzers and flowerpots as instruments, but perhaps Cage's most (in)famous piece is "4'33''", which consisted of four minutes …
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Job Title

Actor, Music

Born

September 5, 1912

LATEST CREDITS

Cage/Cunningham

Himself, Music

John Cage: I Have Nothing to Say and I'm Saying It

Actor, Music ("Branches" "Inlets" "Water Music" "Four Minutes and Thirty-Three Seconds" )

Modern American Composers I

Himself, Music

The Colors of the Prism, the Mechanics of Time

Himself

Jasper Johns: Ideas in Paint

Actor

Mr. Hoover and I

Himself

C'est la vie Rose

Actor

Poetry in Motion

Himself

From Zero

Music

Salvator, die Inseln und Ich

Music

Balanchine and Cunningham: An Evening at American Ballet Theatre

music "Improvisation III" (("Duets") )

Merce Cunningham Dance Company

Music

Shutter Island

Song ("Music For Marcel Duchamp" ), Song ("Root Of An Unfocus" )