by John Bickerton | Dec 31, 2025 | American Avant-Garde, Composers, Experimental Music
Four Systems is a landmark “open-form” graphic score composed by Earle Brown on the afternoon of January 20, 1954. It was created as a spontaneous birthday present for pianist David Tudor while Brown and John Cage were backstage at the Brooklyn Academy of...
by John Bickerton | May 8, 2025 | American Avant-Garde, Composers, Experimental Music
John Cage’s Variations IV, composed in 1963, is the fourth work in his series of eight Variations written between 1958 and 1967. It is considered the second part of a group of three works, preceded by Atlas Eclipticalis (1961–62) and followed by...
