John Cage Big Daddy

Margaret Leng Tan performance exerpt of In the Name of the Holocaust from John Cage, I Have Nothing To Say, And I Am Saying It, PBS American Masters, 1990

 

 

Margaret Leng Tan

"Cage liberated 20th-century American music from the almighty European tradition and gave American composers the confidence to be themselves. In fact, not only composers but American artists in general. One can go so far as to say Cage gave all artists the confidence to be themselves. In essence, we are all Cage's spiritual children."

from 33 Musicians On What John Cage Communicates by Max Blau
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