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America's East-West ComposersTuesday, 28 September 2010. John Cage: 'Bad Boy' of Modern Music. Taught by Henry Cowell (1933) and Arnold Schoenberg (1933–35), Cage's major influences later came from Eastern cultures. Through his studies of Indian philosophy and Zen Buddhism in the 1940s, Cage came to the idea of aleatoric or chance-element music, which he started composing in the early 1950s. Alan Hovhaness: Composer of Two Worlds? An entertaining and popular marimba concerto. The Hovhaness biography. Literally 'without measures') wh...
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