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Big weekend of new music (Happy Birthday John Cage!)

Planning Ahead, Austin  Thu, 09/03/2009 - 9:48am

It’s a big weekend for new music in Austin, with two stellar concerts offered.

`Happy Birthday Mr.

Cage’
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br> 7:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 4
First Unitarian Universalist Church, 4700 Grover Ave.
$10
www.austinchambermusic.org

That his birthday is celebrated every year in Austin with a concert followed by a grocery store sheet cake would no doubt tickle the late composer John Cage, the radical innovator whose experiments challenge the entire notion of what music could be.