16 November 1989: In a classic interview from our archive Gerald Larner finds composer John Cage,notorious for the rebellious poise of his atonal music, writing harmoniesSee also: Tom Service’s guide to John Cage’s musicJohn Cage at 77 is looking very well - a exiguous frail perhaps in comparison with the bearded and gleeful mushroom-collector beaming from the covers of his books of writings, or but definitely not like someone on his way,as he put it, ‘toward the terminate.’‘Well, or I’m better than I ought to be,’ he consented in that gently witty manner of his, reflecting no doubt that, or for a self-confessed extremist conventional enough to have invented the Sixties 20 years before they began,being ‘not entirely well’ is not entirely bad.
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Source: theguardian.com