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The longest musical composition in the world changes chords for the first time in two years

The glacially paced composition has been going for nearly 25 years and today, a new note is introduced to the John Cage Organ Project Halberstadt...

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This organ will play one composition until 2640. It's redefining how slowly music can be played

A small organ in eastern Germany is the headliner of the world’s slowest concert

The Independent UK

Guide to the classics: John Steinbeck’s East of Eden has always been controversial

John Steinbeck is now most famous as author of The Grapes of Wrath (1938), a novel about agricultural workers displaced from Oklahoma during the Great Depression. But he regarded East of Eden (1952), a saga depicting the lives of two Californian families, as his favourite and most significant work.

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Nicolas Cage reveals why he legally changed his name

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Nicolas Cage says he legally changed his name to avoid being the ‘clown cousin’ of the Coppolas

‘National Treasure’ star is the nephew of legendary director Francis Ford Coppola

The Independent UK

Nicolas Cage opens up on why he legally changed name

Spider-Noir actor Nicolas Cage has explained why he changed his name - insisting he didn't want to be known as the "clown cousin" of Hollywood's Coppola family.

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Nicolas Cage has legally changed his name

Spider-Noir actor Nicolas Cage has explained why he changed his name - insisting he didn't want to be known as the "clown cousin" of Hollywood's Coppola family.

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Readers reply: you’re supposed to be quiet in the cinema. So why are the snacks so loud?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

The Guardian - UK

A Yoko Ono biography that avoids John Lennon... Really?

MCCRUM ON BOOKS: Yoko Ono’s art career has seen her wrap orchestras up in gauze and make paintings with numbered instructions – all before she stumbled into Beatlemania. A new book sidelines her partnership with John Lennon, but Robert McCrum argues that her role as the musician’s muse unleashed one…

The Independent UK

‘I’d never heard anything like it’: the prepared piano revelations of jazz star Jessica Williams

Dave Brubeck called her a great and Mary Lou Williams gave her advice. But the prodigy grew frustrated with jazz, quit and started dismantling her instrument. A superb new reissue showcases her findings

The Guardian - UK

Everything We Do Is Music by Elizabeth Alker review – how the classics shaped pop

From Stravinsky to Donna Summer, the story of connections that enriched music – in both directions

The Guardian - UK

“We decided that our audiences would come along with us, rather than it being down to us to feed them a conventional diet”: Paul McCartney on how the '60s avant-garde influenced the Beatles

I Am The Walrus drew from John Cage

MusicRadar

“George Martin came up to me that morning and said, ’Oh, I’ve got a poser for you... I know it’s never been done before, can you do it?“: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded

How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created

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“John said, ‘I don’t know where to go from here.’ So Paul said, ‘Well, I’ve got this other song I’ve been working on.’ They joined the two bits together to make one song”: The story of the greatest thing The Beatles ever recorded

How Sgt. Pepper's epic finale was created

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Yoko Ono, ‘the first female punk rocker’, is an artist of benevolent magic

In 1945, when Yoko Ono was 12, her home city of Tokyo was firebombed. With her mother and siblings, she fled to the safety of a farming village in Nagano Prefecture. Food was scarce. During this time, Ono, as the eldest child, often had to help find provisions for her…

The Guardian - UK

Yoko by David Sheff review – a queasily one-sided defence

The artist and musician is a brilliant subject for an epic, in-depth biography, but this is merely hagiography

The Guardian - UK

Lyon Opera Ballet: Cunningham Forever review – a modern master’s wild ambition

Merce Cunningham’s demands on dancers are the stuff of legend, but as in the celebration of two of his classic works here, utterly essential

The Guardian - UK

Sound advice from John Cage

Letters: Readers offer their views on getting rid of earworms using the composer’s 4’33”

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The Guardian - UK

Want to get rid of a earworm? Try John Cage

Letters: Readers respond to an article by Elle Hunt on the science of unshakeable tunes

The Guardian - AU

Solomon Frank: the 10 funniest things I have ever seen (on the internet)

The performer and composer shares what makes him laugh, including a singing dog, Joan Rivers at the Logies and a scathing review of Sex and the City 2

The Conversation

How the surrealists used randomness as a catalyst for creative expression

A century ago, French writer and poet André Breton penned his “Manifesto of Surrealism,” which launched an art movement known for creating bizarre hybrids of words and images.

The Guardian - UK

Chamayou: Cage² album review – each piece is a brightly coloured gem

Every phrase is perfectly articulated on this revelatory record that reminds us of the composer’s intrinsic originality and vivid imagination

Louder

"Roy Thomas Baker would organise food fights and set fire to the mixing desk": How Bill Nelson built up then broke up Be-Bop Deluxe

Bill Nelson on Jimi Hendrix, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and the brilliant five-album career of art-rockers Be-Bop Deluxe

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John Cage’s ‘now moments’ inspire Lismore Castle Arts’ group show

Lismore Castle Arts’ ‘Each now, is the time, the space’ takes its title from John Cage, and sees four artists embrace the moment through sculpture and found objects

Reason

John McWhorter on the Columbia Protests

An excerpt from his column in yesterday's N.Y. Times: Last Thursday, in the music humanities class I teach at Columbia University, two students were giving an in-class presentation on the composer John Cage. His most famous piece is "4'33"," which directs us to listen in silence to surrounding noise for…

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