 Edition Peters soon published a large number of scores by Cage, and this, together with the publication of "Silence", led to much higher prominence for the composer than ever before—one of the positive consequences of this was that in 1965 Betty Freeman set up an annual grant for living expenses for Cage, to be issued from 1965 to his death.By the mid-1960s, Cage was receiving so many commissions and requests for appearances that he was unable to fulfill them.This was accompanied by a busy touring schedule; consequently Cage's compositional output from that decade was scant.