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BMOP/sound's latest release, John Cage: Sixteen Dances, highlights one of the most significant and influential American composers of the 20th Century. A long-time collaborator with dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham, John Cage wrote a number of works which reflected their radical ideas regarding the relationship between dance and music. Sixteen Dances is one such work, developed through the use of chance operations, a compositional process involving methods such as coin tossing and the I Ching or Book of Changes. This recording offers a brilliant performance by BMOP under Gil Rose's direction; it is yet another outstanding addition to the BMOP/sound catalog and to the recorded works of John Cage.