Van Meter Ames papers 1966-1995

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Van Meter Ames papers 1966-1995

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This collection documents the relationship between University of Cincinnati philosophy professor Van Meter Ames and prolific 20th Century composer John Cage. A friend and fan of Cage, Ames drafted a manuscript, involving aspects of both Cage's life and his own, that never received publication but is available in this collection. The collection also contains correspondence between Cage and Ames, newspaper clippings and programs of Cage's accomplishments/works, and some of Cage's creative writing.

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University of Cincinnati, Archives and Rare Books Library

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Cage, John, 1912-1992

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John Cage was born in Los Angeles in 1912. He studied composition with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss, and Arnold Schoenberg. In 1938 he began working as an accompanist for dance and a teacher at the Cornish School of the Arts in Seattle, Washington. It was here that he first met the dancer Merce Cunningham, with whom he would have a lifelong working relationship. Together they were responsible for a number of radical innovations in musical and choreographic compositions, such as the...

Ames, Van Meter, 1898-

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Van Meter Ames was born on July 9, 1898 in De Soto, Iowa. He was the son of Mabel Van Meter Ames and Edward Scribner Ames (1870-1958), who taught in the Philosophy department at the University of Chicago and was pastor of the University Church of the Church of the Disciples of Christ and dean of the Disciples Divinity House. Van Meter Ames received his B.A. and Ph.D (1924) from the University of Chicago. Ames joined the faculty of the University of Cincinnati in 1925 and...