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He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom


He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom
The life and work of Thomas Wiggins, who toured as “Blind Tom,” has been given more attention in recent years.
Born into slavery, Thomas Wiggins, who performed as “Blind Tom,” became a touring phenomenon, playing his own compositions and improvising on the piano.Credit.George Kendall Warren/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
March 3, 2021
Charity Wiggins, a slave on a Georgia plantation, was 48 in May 1849, when she gave birth to a baby boy.
The child, whom she named Thomas, was born blind, and Charity feared that their owner would deem him a useless burden with potentially dire consequences. Sure enough, before long Charity’s family of five, at the time was put up for sale to settle some of the owner’s debts. ....

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Meet John Cage, the Innovative Composer Behind the 639-year-long Concert




American composer John Cage (1912–1992), a music theorist, artist and philosopher, was one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde and one of the most influential composers of the 20th century. Paul Bergen/Redferns/Getty Images
On Sept. 5, 2020, a small crowd of mask-wearing music lovers gathered in St. Burchardi church in the town of Halberstadt, Germany, to witness an organ chord change. What seems like a minor event was actually a milestone: It marked the first sound change in almost seven years (and only the 14th chord change since the concert began on Sept. 5, 2001) in what is known as the slowest concert in the world. Welcome to John Cage s living legacy, ORGAN²/ASLSP. ....

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