Cage (dead Souls Mc: Prospects #1)

Awarded the Diapason d'Or, this first volume of Cage's String Quartets marked Mode's beginning of an association with the exceptional Arditti Quartet—and the largest selling record in Mode's catalog! Cage worked extensively with the quartet in preparing the pieces for the concert and recording which was recorded live at Wesleyan University's JOHN CAGE AT WESLEYAN festival in 1988. Cage was so pleased and impressed with the Arditti's interpretations, that it was decided to release the concert performances, documenting the event and their dynamic playing. The cover art is an original etching by Cage.

From the winner of the Bancroft Prize and the Francis Parkman Prize in History—a lost episode rediscovered after almost two hundred years; a thwarted love triangle of heartbreak—two men and a woman of equal ambition, that exploded in scandal and investigation, set between America's Revolution and its Civil War, revealing an age in subtle and powerful transformation, caught between the fight for women's rights and the campaign waged by evangelical Protestants to dominate the nation's culture and politics.

John Cage (1912-1992) was one of the most controversial composers of the 20th century. He is best known for his 1952 work 4'33" which involves not a single note of music being played. This selection of Cage's music provides a rare opportunity to get to know a range of works that were written between the years 1939-65, which were some of the composer's most productive years.