101 (1989) was commissioned by the Boston Symphony Orchestra and the Fromm Foundation at Harvard University. In 1987, he wrote, designed and directed Euroceras 1 & 2, with the assistance of Andrew Culver, for the Frankfurt Opera. He was laureate of the 1989 Kyoto Prize given by the Inamori Foundation. Cage was the Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University for the 1988-1989 academic year. He was named Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Minister of Culture in 1982, and received an Honorary Doctorate of Performing Arts from the California Institute of the Arts in 1986. Cage was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1978, and was inducted into the 50-member American Academy of Arts and Letters in May, 1989. Cage and Cunningham were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the use of chance operations and the independence of dance and music.Ĭage was the recipient of many awards and honors, beginning in 1949 with a Guggenheim Fellowship and an Award from the National Academy of Arts and Letters for having extended the boundaries of music through his work with percussion orchestra and his invention in 1940 of the prepared piano. He was associated with Merce Cunningham from the early 1940’s and was Musical Advisor for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company until his death in 1992. In 1952, at Black Mountain College, he presented a theatrical event considered by many to have been the first Happening. He studied with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912.
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