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There was always the whiff of the charlatan about John Cage. The puckish composer, audacious theoretician, stylish writer, subtle graphic artist, macrobiotic guru and fearless mushroom hunter was the impish personification of the 20th century avant-garde. Arch, soft-spoken and witty, Cage was passionately adored by his acolytes right up to his death at age 79 in 1992, and continues to be regarded by some as a kind of contemporary Beethoven, his influence ranging as far afield as Germany and Japan (where he is a demigod). And yet: Was there ever a composer of whom it can be said...
...exactly silence. During the course of 4'33", which Cage composed (conceived?) in 1952, the pianist sits quietly at the keyboard, but nature -- in the form of coughs, whispers, rustles, the 60-cycle hum of electric lights and the rush of traffic outside the concert hall -- provides the sonic material. "When I was setting out to devote my life to music," Cage wrote in 1974, "people distinguished between musical sounds and noises. I . . . fought for noises." So defined, Cage found "music" everywhere: in the kitchen, in technology (HPSCHD, a seminal electronic collaboration with composer Lejaren Hiller), in numerology and, most...
...while Kentucky Coach Rick Pitino addressed the student body and Tar Heels partied at the Dean Smith Dome, the leaves in the entry of Briggs Cage were undisturbed and the only noise came from passing cars on Harvard Avenue...
...mentors won't be told to do any onespecific thing," Cage said. "But if they'reinterested in the same thing, maybe they'll dothat together...
...mentors act on a more personal level than the prefects," Cage said. "They are someone the first-year can talkto one a one-to-one level and feel comfortableasking advice from...