[silence] Young Cage

[Luk Vaes]

Quickly jumping in, here: the interview between Hines and Cage really did 
take place. The transcript of it is at the UCLA library.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "André Chaudron" <a.chaudron@online.nl>
To: <stefanodoug76@gmail.com>; <silence@list.mail.virginia.edu>
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 6:05 AM
Subject: Re: [silence] Young Cage


> Hi Stefano and others,
> If you visit Paul van Emmerik's Cage site 
> (http://www.xs4all.nl/~cagecomp/), you can take a look at his 'Cage 
> chronology', which might give you some brief details of his early life 
> (for instance: Around 1924 Cage played Beethoven Violin Sonatas with an 
> unidentified violin player. Just imagine!).
> Another option is reading the article by Thomas S. Hines "The Not Yet 
> Cage: The Los Angeles Years, 1912-1938" in 'John Cage - Composed in 
> America' edited by Marjorie Perloff and Charles Junkerman. I remember 
> reading an article criticizing Hines' essay, partly because it focuses 
> quite a bit on Cage's homosexuality. If I remember correctly the author of 
> this article even doubted whether the interview took place at all. This 
> might be in Kostelanetz' book 'Cage (ex)plained', I am not sure about this 
> and have no access to my books at the moment.
> Good luck and best wishes,
> André Chaudron
>
>
>
>
> Hi there, sorry if this sounds a bit silly but I was wondering if there
> are any news available of John Cage's childhood....his first 20 years,
> let's say. I'd like to understand the birth of John's maverick spirit.
> The causes and the environment that produced such personality and ideas.
> Any clues? Books or links on the web I could have a glance at?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Stefano
>
>
>
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