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John Cage Wins 5 Million Lira on Italian Game Show

3/24/2026

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  • In the late 1950s, American composer John Cage appeared on the Italian game show Lascia o Raddoppia.
  • He won 5 million lire.
  • He used his winnings to purchase a Steinway piano and a Volkswagen campervan for Merce Cunningham's dance company.
  • Grace Hartigan, an abstract-expressionist painter, expressed in 1952 that clerical jobs prevented her from painting.