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Monday, August 27, 2007
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    Living Room Music

    In anticipation of the upcoming 95th birthday anniversary of musical maverick John Cage, we focus all week on various aspects of the composer's work. Tonight, vocal arts group nova performs Cage's "Living Room Music."

    24:33 on WNYC2: A John Cage Festival

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John Cage's Living Room Music

One of Cage's earlier works, "Living Room Music" is scored for percussion and "speech quartet." The work is intended to be played on an unspecified array of household objects one would find in a living room, such as tables, books, magazines, or window frames. The second movement features a spoken excerpt from Gertrude Stein's "The World is Round."

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John Cage

The Composer Speaks

John Cage talks about how he got into working with chance procedures and came to redefine the so-called "purpose" of music.

John Cage Festival

Cage's Gift: An Unprepared World Meets the Prepared Piano

Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

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The Playful and Playable Cage: A WNYC Festival

John Cage Festival

Cage unCaged: A Cross-section of his Output

Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

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The Playful and Playable Cage: A WNYC Festival

John Cage Festival

1992: The Final Moments

Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

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The Playful and Playable Cage: A WNYC Festival

John Cage Festival

Noise vs. Sound

Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

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The Playful and Playable Cage: A WNYC Festival

John Cage Festival

The Magic of Four

Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

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The Playful and Playable Cage: A WNYC Festival

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