Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham

Cage’s passionate, distraught and affectionate letters to Cunningham provide a vivid portrait of the start of their life together

These early letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham will be revelatory, for while the two are widely known as a dynamic, collaborative duo, the story of how and when they came together has never been fully revealed. In the 39 letters of this collection, spanning 1942–46, Cage shows himself to be a man falling deeply in love. When they first met at the Cornish S...