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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…

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‘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

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“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

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“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…

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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”

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 - UK

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 Guardian - AU

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 Conversation

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

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"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

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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…

The Guardian - UK

George Newson obituary

Other lives: Avant garde composer who produced some of the first British electronic music

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“I don’t like praise. ‘This record is flawed and has good intentions, but I look forward to something better’ – that’s a great review”: Richard Thompson doesn’t believe in the ‘perfect album’

British electric folk pioneer is certain his movement was more radical and courageous than their American counterparts because “there was no immediate audience for what we were doing”

The Guardian - UK

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – huge, moving and full of surprises

Inviting you to draw on the walls, hammer in nails and climb into cloth bags like the ones she shared with John Lennon, this retrospective of the artist’s hopeful work over seven decades is as inclusive as it is instructive

The Guardian - UK

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind review – wild shrieks, audacious instructions and bare bottoms

Shake hands with a stranger, write about your mum, colour in, step on, get up close and interact with Ono’s art at this crowd-pleasing retrospective

The Guardian - UK

Lost dogs, lost titles and something harder than diamond – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes, every Thursday. How will you fare?

WEKU

Chaos in Congress over border security; 'None of the above' wins Nevada's primary

Congressional Republicans are opposing a border bill that they demanded. Nikki Haley loses the Nevada primary.

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A 639-year-long musical performance just changed chords for the first time in two years - and it's not set to finish until 2640: "It's a way of trying to slow down our hectic lives"

The world's longest musical composition, Organ²/ASLSP (As Slow as Possible), was composed by experimental mastermind John Cage

WEKU

A 639-year-long John Cage organ performance strikes a new chord in Germany

The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits.

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