title: The Selected Letters of John Cage
author: John Cage
description: John Cage created an offbeat gamelan-inflected, childlike, percussive wonderland of piano works. This rich legacy was the product of a long emotional evolution, as this vast compendium indicates, reflecting Cages ever-genial, ultra-collegial personality.Benjamin Ivry<br /><br />This book is an introduction to Cagean aesthetics to equal Silence, his 1960 collection of writings In words, as in music, Cage still opens our ears and minds.Alastair Macaulay, <i><b>The New York Times</b></i><br /><br />The Selected Letters of John Cage, a wide-ranging selection of correspondence edited by Laura Kuhn, may stand both as Cages best biography to date and an unfailingly engaging introduction to his thinking. It demystifies Cage the far-removed guru and restores to us an eternally curious human being with a sharp, original mind and a gift for language that is apparent from the first letter in the book.Tim Page, <i><b>The New York Review of Books</b></i><br /><br />(Merce) Cunningham became Cages great love and remained his spouse for the remainder of his life. The correspondence from the dawn of their uncommon and intensely beautiful romance, found in The Selected Letters of John Cage, is on par with Nabakovs love lettersthat gold standard of the most intimate genre of the written wordmakes a crowning addition to historys greatest LGBT love letters.Maria Popova, <i><b>Brain Pickings</b></i><br /><br />Each decade of letters is introduced with un-precious biographical narrative: how in the mid 1930s Cage was broke more often than not; how in the late 1950s he won an Italian TV game show with mushrooms as his special subject; how in the early 1980s his neighbours John Lennon and Yoko Ono recommended he take up a macrobiotic dietKate Molleson, <i><b>Gramophone</b></i><br /><br />I might argue, from a Zen perspective, that music that says nothing also says everything. And so does Cages work. <i><b>American Record Guide</b></i><br /><br />.these letters are important for those seeking a personal understanding of Cage.Jeff Simon, <i><b>The Buffalo News, Editors Choice</b></i><br /><br />Cage's letters are charged with the ecstasy of the found, the joy of the unexpected, the unanticipated connection, and it spills over into his relationships with his fellows and friends (including some amazing women), among them the giants of music in his time."Tim Pfaff, <i><b>The Bay Area Reporter</b></i><br /><br />Cages lifelong struggle to break down the European influence in music and the artsin his view a tradition that was totally spentis a tale engagingly told in his own words in a new 650-page book, The Selected Letters of John CageMichael Johnson, <i><b>Facts &amp; Arts</b></i><br /><br />This is not a book that can be devoured in a biteremains an indispensable source for Cage research and interpretation.Gisela Groneymeyer, <i><b>MusikTexte</b></i>
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  Opening the Cage
  A Shifting Elements Book
  By BA Tortuga
   
   
   
  Resplendence Publishing, LLC
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  Opening the Cage
  Copyright © 2012 BA Tortuga
  Edited by Darlena Cunha and Liza Green
  Cover art by Les Byerley, www.les3photo8.com
  Electronic format ISBN: 978-1-60735-486-4
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  Electronic Release: March 2012
  This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and occurrences are a product of the author’s
  imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, places or occurrences, is purely
  coincidental.
   
   
  
   
   
   
  To my editor, Darlena. You rock, lady.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
  
   
   