Related topics keyboard musicart songchamber music Advertisement In July of 1988, the Composers' Union of the USSR invited John Cage to take part in the International Contemporary Music Festival in Leningrad. By this time Cage was more than 75 years old. While no one would have called him mainstream at that time (or any other time), he was far from the dangerous renegade many took him to be when, in May of 1958, Emile de Antonio, Jasper Johns, and Robert Rauschenberg produced a 25-year retrospective concert of his music, which was performed at Town Hall in Manhattan. Cage was being lauded by the Soviet establishment as a distinguished veteran of avant-garde service, even if he chose to...
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