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READ: Our American Mavericks: Break the Rules series—based on the work of Music Humanities students at Columbia University—concludes with Helen Chen, who uses John Cage's embrace of chance operations combined with the words of T.S. Eliot to linguistically experiment with her increasingly bewildered friends.
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READ | WATCH: Andrew Byrne's series about the American maverick composers concludes with an introduction to John Cage, whom Arnold Schoenberg described as "not a composer, but an inventor … of genius.”
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READ | PHOTOS: To celebrate the American Mavericks series, the Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall is featuring works from five American composers—Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Edgard Varèse, Harry Partch, and John Cage—who were mavericks in their time. Beginning with John Cage, over the next 10 days we will post information and images from the exhibit and from the Carnegie Hall Archives.
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WATCH | PICTURES: Michael Tilson Thomas, Jessye Norman, and Joan La Barbara discuss Cage's evocative and playful Song Books which they will perform at Carnegie Hall on March 27.
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EXPLORE: Navigate through the maze of connections that link John Cage—dubbed "an inventor of genius" by Schoenberg—with the wider musical world.
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