Confronting Silence : Selected Writings

List of Plates vi Foreword vii Author's Preface ix Translators' Preface xi Early Writings Nature and Music (From ``A Composer's Diary'') 3(24) On His Contemporaries John Cage 27(5) Merce Cunningham 32(2) Jasper Johns 34(2) Conversation on Seeing 36(10) The Landscape of the Score 46(5) East and West On Music A Single Sound 51(2) The Distance from Ud to Biwa 53(3) Noh and Transience 56(3) Sound of East, Sound of West 59(10) On Art Isamu Noguchi---Traveler 69(2) Redon Fantasy 71(8) On His Composing A Personal Approach 79(4) Notes on November Steps 83(8) Mirror and Egg 91(6) Dream and Number 97(32) Nature People and Trees 129(3) Water 132(5) Recent Writings In Memoriam Music is Life: John Cage, the Elegant Revolutionary 137(2) The Passing of Feldman, Nono, and Messiaen 139(3) Gardener of Time 142(3) Index 145