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| Afternoon Performance | ...JOHN CAGE Uncaged - Influences... |
| Cage On Cage | ...JOHN CAGE talks about his life and work in recordings from the BBC Archives.... |
| Charles Hazlewood Show, The | ...With British pianist Joanna McGregor, playing pieces by tango composer Astor Piazzolla, Nina Simone and JOHN CAGE. Other music includes tracks from Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Ross and Richard Strauss ... |
| Desert Island Discs | ...Sue Lawley invites John Cale, the musician and founder of the Velvet Underground, to choose eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. John Cale was brought up in a strict South Wales household. But from a young age he was determined to increase his cultural influences - he would stay awake through the night, covertly listening to modern composers on the third service and on Radio Moscow and he would send away for contemporary music scores from the LONDON music libraries. He went on to have viola lessons at the Royal Academy of Music while also studying music at Goldsmiths' Teacher Training College in LONDON. He was talent spotted by Aaron Copland and awarded a musical scholarship to study in America, where he was part of the contemporary avant-garde music scene there - working with JOHN CAGE and LaMonte Young, until he met Lou Reed and the two formed Velvet Underground. They were almost immediately adopted by Andy Warhol and effectively became a house band at the Factory. The group then became one of the most important musical influences of the 1960s.... |
| Erik Satie (1866-1925) | ...JOHN CAGE: Cheap Imitation... |
| Future Of Music - Credo, The | ...The title of a lecture by JOHN CAGE first delivered in 1937 and published in 1958 is the inspiration for this radio montage. Music itself has the final word on its own past and present as echoes of the sounds heard throughout the day culminate in the midnight chimes of Big Ben.... |
| Hear And Now | ...Robert Worby and Sara Mohr-Pietsch introduce coverage of the 2008 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. The programme features the UK premiere of Hope - the 9th hour of Stockhausen's KLANG and Outer Nothingness by Sun Ra, alongside music from JOHN CAGE: Concert Reclaimed which closed the 2008 festival.... |
| Here's One I Made Earlier | ...A prepared piano is one whose notes and tones have been altered by placing unconventional materials on or between the strings. A strip of rubber here, a metal bolt there - objects like these cause the piano to speak a language of unpitched buzzes, sonorous thumps and delicate rattles. Pianist and composer Stephen Montague lifts the lid on piano preparation, exploring the invented sound worlds of JOHN CAGE, Conlon Nancarrow and Lou Harrison. / In The Company Of Mushrooms: JOHN CAGE was obsessed with mushrooms. Ivan Hewett explores his own obsession with mycology with chef, Antonio Carluccio and author, Elios Schaechter.... |
| Iain Burnside | ...Iain and architecture critic Jonathan Glancey consider the question that if architecture is frozen music, how does it sound? Including an excerpt from Berlioz's Requiem and music by Monteverdi, JC Bach and JOHN CAGE ... |
| Late Junction | ...Verity Sharp presents an eclectic choice of music including Japanese boogie-woogie, JOHN CAGE's Quodlibet, a vocal duet by Jon Balke and Sidsel Endresen, and from last month's WOMAD Festival, a set by Lo Cor de la Plana, who sing in the old Occitan language of Marseilles.... |
| Music Machine | ...A Japanese Zen master told JOHN CAGE, `If something bores you after two minutes, try it for four; if it still bores you, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, and so on. Eventually you discover that it is not boring at all but very interesting.' Tommy Pearson experiences transcendence in the art of Western composition.... |
| Music Matters | ...In a special live edition of Music Matters, Tom Service discusses the life and legacy of JOHN CAGE with experts and enthusiasts and illustration from those who knew him.... |
| Performing Art | ...The fifth of eight talks focusing on a particular art object in the Victoria and Albert Museum which has a musical connection. Christopher Cook talks to Rowan Watson about JOHN CAGE's `Edible Papers'.... |
| Pre-hear | ...The Avant-Garde Ensemble of New ENGLAND Conservatory/Stephen Drury perform JOHN CAGE's Apartment House 1776, a 'musicircus' written for the 1976 Bicentennial celebrations in the USA.... |
| Private Passions | ...Michael Berkeley's guest is Jude Kelly, artistic director of the West YORKshire Playhouse. Her musical choices include Donizetti, JOHN CAGE, Haydn, Elgar and Joni Mitchell ... |
| Rest Is Noise - Listening To The 20th Century, The | ...Julian Rhind Tutt reads from music critic Alex Ross's history of 20th-century music. JOHN CAGE, John Adams and the birth of political opera with Nixon in China.... |
| Sex, Drugs And Four Minutes Of Silence | ...Alyn Shipton looks back on the time when composers' rule books were torn up and JOHN CAGE's infamous `4'33', in which a pianist sits on stage for that time in total silence, led the way to a brief, ground-breaking period when classical music was the most radical of the arts.... |
| Soundings - Robert Rauschenberg | ...In a rare interview Robert Rauschenberg talks to Tim Marlow about his revolutionary career as a painter, sculptor, composer, photographer and choreographer. Rauschenberg's career began with collaborations with JOHN CAGE at Black Mountain College and exploded in the 50s, when he and Jasper Johns rose to prominence in the New York art world, which had previously been dominated by Pollock and De Koonig. The programme includes contributions from art dealer Leo Castelli, writer Calvin Tomkins and dancers Merce Cunningham and Trisha Brown.... |
| Stuart Maconie's Freak Zone [6 Music] | ...JOHN CAGE/Robert Wyatt - Experiences No. 2... |
| Summer Cd Review | ...Excerpts from Margaret Leng Tan's most recent DVD, championing the toy piano in music by JOHN CAGE and Eric Satie... |
| Things To Do In Four Minutes | ...Tony also remembers the classic short film London to Brighton in Four Minutes; tries to get to grips with JOHN CAGE's silent composition 4'33" and asks food writer Sybil Kapoor to come up with her favourite four minute recipe.... |
| Voices | ...Iain Burnside talks to poet Michael Horovitz about his career and musical tastes, which range from Jelly Roll Morton to Schubert and from Nina Simone to JOHN CAGE ... |
| Vox Pop | ...Critic Paul Morley outlines a parallel history of rock music, not the one which stems from Chuck Berry and Elvis, but instead originating in the experimental music of JOHN CAGE ... |
| Words And Music | ...Sian Thomas and Jamie Glover read poetry and prose on a theme of the state of the planet, including work by Ted Hughes, WH Auden, John Clare, Alice Oswald, Rachel Carson and Philip Larkin. With music inspired by our landscape by Peter Maxwell Davies, JOHN CAGE and Mahler.... |