Sixty years ago, an audience of hundreds of spectators in a grand concert hall were surprised to find that the opening number was four minutes and 33 seconds of sheer silence, with no orchestra member ...

Visitors and journalists have been coming to see the organ in the Burchardi Church to witness the sound change in the world's slowest piece of music. Matthias Bein/dpa Twenty-two years into the ...

Another Timbre recordings featuring music by John Cage are into double figures and those featuring Apartment House now number thirty-something, so there was a certain inevitability about this album on ...

View of an embroidered sheet of music from the piece Organ2/ASLSP by John Cage. Artist Sabine Groschup expands the embroidery with each change of sound. After two years, the sound of the slowest piece ...

John Cage, Arnold Schoenberg, and the musical idea / David W. Bernstein -- Cultural intersections : John Cage in Seattle (1938-1940) / Leta E. Miller -- No ear for music : timbre in the early ...

In his “Europeras,” Cage dismantled centuries of tradition and expectations, for musicians and audiences alike. A rare revival is coming to Detroit. By Joshua Barone The start was typical: Oper ...

It wasn’t, perhaps, a very fine day to be at Harvard for the first of the six prestigious Charles Eliot Norton Lectures to be given in the current academic year by John Cage, America’s foremost ...