7 Virgil Thomson

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Cage and Friends
7. 1 John Cage 25
8. 2 Merce Cunningham 52
9. 3 Bonnie Bird 67
10. 4 David Tudor 81
11. 5 Jackson Mac Low 93
12. 6 Minna Lederman 102
13. Part II: Colleagues and Criticism
14. 7 Virgil Thomson 111
15. 8 Otto Luening 122
16. 9 Karlheinz Stockhausen 127
17. 10 Earle Brown 136
18. 11 Kurt Schwertsik 146
19. 12 La Monte Young 152
20. 13 John Rockwell 162
21. 14 Pauline Oliveros 170
22. 15 Paul Zukofsky 175
23. Part III: Earlier Interviews
24. 16 Cage with David Sylvester and Roger Smalley 185
25. 17 Cage with Frank Kermode 196
26. 18 Cage with Michael Oliver 201
27. Part IV: Extravaganzas
28. 19 About Musicircus, Cage with Peter Dickinson 211
29. 20 Introducing Roaratorio, Cage, Cunningham, and Peadar Mercier with Peter Dickinson 217
30. 21 Europeras and After, Cage with Anthony Cheevers 227
31. Appendix I: Finnegans Wake 233
32. Appendix II: John Cage Uncaged 235
33. Selected Bibliography 237
34. General Index 249
35. Index of Works 263
36. About the Author 269