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American avant-garde composer (1912-1992)
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- composer, writer, poet, university teacher, musicologist, philosopher, painter, music theorist, illustrator, drawer, mycologist, visual artist
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[…] text of the 1960 and 70s counterculture. It inspired Claude Vivier's eponymous orchestral work composed in 1976 to a commission from the National Youth Orchestra of Canada. Claude Vivier (1948-1983) died in 1983 at the age of 35. He is one of a number of hugely talented but rarely performed composers whose cause is not helped by current classical programming which places more emphasis on click bait potential than artistic merit. John Cage and Philip Glass are the two modern composers usually linked to Buddhism. Whereas Philip Glass is associated with the esoteric school of Tibetan Buddhism, John Cage drew inspiration from the more austere Zen tradition. Zen scholar and teacher D. T. Suzuki inspired a generation of American Buddhists, and John Cage was particularly influenced by the teachings of the Heart Sutra on sunyata - emptiness. The Heart Sutra's core teaching that "form is emptiness, emptiness […]
2024-02-06 13:09:08
The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits.
2024-02-06 13:09:08
A 639-year-long John Cage organ performance strikes a new chord in Germany
2024-02-06 00:11:41
A John Cage piece for organ titled ASLSP — as slow as possible — lives up to its name. It has been in performance for 21 years so far.
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