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COVER: John Cage working on the Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano, 1947. photo: courtesy Artservices/Lovely Music.
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4 Editorial, Letters
6 A Composer’s Confessions
An address given before the National Inter-Collegiate Arts Conference at Vassar College, 1948 by John Cage
16 Score: One (1987) for solo piano
by John Cage
AN HOMAGE TO JOHN CAGE
18 De-linearizing Musical Continuity
John Cage’s aesthetics of interpenetration without obstruction by Daniel Charles
24 A Note and a Table in the Tenth Year
John Cage and the computer by Andrew Culver
27 Score: Music for John Cage (1990) for solo piano
by Linda C. Smith
28 A White Cage Inside Four Walls
Silence in 1944 by Michele Porzio
32, 35, 36 Score excerpts:
Four Walls (1944) for piano and voice by John Cage
40 John Cage: The Development of His Visual Art
by Richard Kostelanetz
44 Score:
Hexagram #14 (1991) for piano and voice by Udo Kasemets
50 John Cage and the Idea of Harmony
by Eric De Visscher
53, 54 Score excerpts:
Four (1989) for string quartet by John Cage
58 Time ... on dit
The music of Shostakovich; the poetry of our time by Stan Brakhage
61 Announcements, Sources, Colloquies, Classifieds
