Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS I could not have begun or continued writing this biography without the steady, generous, essential help and encouragement of Laura Kuhn, executive director of the John Cage Trust at Bard College. I feel privileged to have also had the hospitable support of a great American artist now greatly missed, Merce Cunningham. I received assistance of one kind or another from Stephen Addiss, Jennifer Bahng, Kevin Bazzana, Amy Beal, Cristina Berio, Jay Cantor, Gene Caprioglio, Jeanette L. Casey, Tim Clifford , James Crouch, Viktoria Dalborg, Jaime Davidovich, Elaine Dee, Peter Dickinson, Douglas Dunn, Sabine Feisst, Paul Franklin, Phil Gentry, William Bernard George, Pia Gilbert, Grace Glueck, Charles Hanson, Thomas Hines, D. J. Hoek, Leslie Kellam, Philip Krumm, Rebecca Y. Kym, Julie Lazar, Jeffrey Makala, Kiki Mallin, Bunita Marcus, Yvonne Mattevi, Thomas McGeary, Victoria Miguel, Leta Miller, Hal Moma, Nuria Schoenberg Nono, Carol Oja, Brent Reidy, Micah Silver, Marcello Toledo. My thanks to all of them. I am especially grateful to those who allowed me to interview them about their relation to John Cage: William Anastasi, John Ashbery, Charles Atlas, George Avakian, Dove Bradshaw, Brian Brandt, Isaac Chocron, Roy Close, Andrew Culver, Merce Cunningham, Gwen Deely, Douglas Dunn, Monique Fong, Don Gillespie, Joanna Gewertz Harris, Jasper Johns, Ray Kass, Alison Knowles, Mary Ann (Spencer) Koontz, Richard Kostelanetz, Petr Kotik, Laura Kuhn, Joan La Barbara, Chris Mann, Geeta Mayor (by mail), Jacqueline Matisse Monnier, Raphael Mostel, Yoko Ono (by e-mail), Mary Purvis (by phone), Valda Setterfield, Susan Sollins, Margaret Leng Tan, Blue Gene Tyranny, David Vaughan, Christian Wolff. If I have neglected to name someone I consulted, I earnestly beg his or her forgiveness. Some thanks are continuing: to Ann Close, my helpful editor at Knopf; her painstaking associates Caroline Zancan and Victoria Pearson; and Hugh Rawson, my caring agent. Some thanks trivialize thanking: to my dear children Willa and Ethan, my dear daughter-in-law Ronit, my dear grandchildren Benjamin, Eve, and Isaac Gus, and my dear loving mate Jane Mallison (gbq? rft?). kenneth silverman Washington Square Village and Highland Lake ...