Season of Glass 1981

Yoko Ono has also been a key figure in the music scene. She has maintained a lifelong interest in music. Her father was a highly accomplished pianist, despite opting for a career in banking. As a child, she remembers listening to everyday sounds and transposing them into musical notation.

Ono’s first husband Toshi Ichiyanagi was a composer. While living in New York in the late 1950s, through him and others, she met many of the leading avant-garde musicians of the time, among them John Cage. She performed with John Cage when he visited Japan in 1962.