Avant-garde pianist and composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, who studied with John Cage and went on to lead Japan’s advances in experimental modern music, has died.
Japanese pianist and composer Toshi Ichiyanagi speaks in an interview in Tokyo, Sept. 2018. Avant-garde pianist and composer Ichiyanagi, who studied with John Cage and went on to lead Japan’s advances in experimental modern music, has died. He was 89.Ichiyanagi, who was married to Yoko Ono before she married John Lennon, died Friday, according to the Kanagawa Arts Foundation, where Ichiyanagi had served as general artistic director. The cause of death was not given.
He was known for collaborations that defied the boundaries of genres, working with Jasper Johns and Merce Cunningham, as well as innovative Japanese artists like architect Kisho Kurokawa and poet-playwright Shuji Terayama, as well as with Ono, with whom he was married for several years starting in the mid-1950s.
Modern music was more about “substantial space, in order to restore the spiritual richness that music provides,” he said. His music traveled freely across influences and cultures, transitioning seamlessly from minimalist avant-garde to Western opera.
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