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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. He was 89. Ichiyanagi, who was married to Yoko Ono before she married John Lennon, died Friday, according to the Kanag...

TOKYO -- Avant-garde pianist and composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, who studied with John Cage and went on to lead Japans advances in experimental modern music, has died. He was 89.

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Musical pioneer Ichiyanagi was married to Yoko Ono before she met John Lennon.

Toshi Ichiyanagi studied at The Juilliard School in New York and incorporated traditional Japanese elements and electronic music.

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As artist Stanley Walden turns 90, his work is being celebrated around the world. And hes still composing.

The video artist Charles Atlas opens one of his most ambitious and complex commissions this week at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn.