All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Tom Moore: Dec 18, 2021

Laura Kuhn talks with Tom Moore, a renowned interpreter of Cage’s music, and especially the composer’s post-1951 works for solo piano and chamber music. Tom first met John Cage in 1982, and theirs t...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Trevor Carlson About Cage, Cunningham, and Food, Part II: Dec 04, 2021

Laura Kuhn talks once again with Trevor Carlson, who she first met shortly after he joined the ranks of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation and Company in the late 1990s, first as Company Manager, l...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Trevor Carlson About Cage, Cunningham, and Food, Part I: Nov 27, 2021

Laura Kuhn talks with Trevor Carlson, who she first met shortly after he joined the ranks of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation and Company in the late 1990s, first as Company Manager, later as E...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn speaks with Margaret Leng Tan: Nov 13, 2021

Tonight, Laura Kuhn talks with pianist Margaret Leng Tan, long established as a major force in the American avant-garde and renowned as a John Cage interpreter. We feature two recordings of Cage’s ea...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn speaks with Joan Retallack, Part I: Oct 30, 2021

Laura Kuhn speaks tonight with Joan Retallack, an extraordinary American poet, essayist, and scholar who also happens to be her colleague at Bard College. As the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur P...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on John Cage’s "Lecture on the Weather": Oct 23, 2021

and Zeke Virant. Joan Retallack, long on faculty at Bard College, also served as dramaturg. An excerpt from the work will also be heard at the COP26 2021 UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow t...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on John Cage's "Variations VII": Oct 16, 2021

Tonight’s program takes a look at Cage’s series of “variations” works, with emphasis on his Variations VII an elaborate technologically driven performance piece that was conceived for and included in...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on Cage's Satie, Composition for Museum: Oct 02, 2021

Tonight’s program takes a musical dive into Cage’s lifelong devotion to the French composer Erik Satie by focusing on Kuhn’s exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Lyon, conceived in 2012 fo...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and James Pritchett: Sep 25, 2021

James Pritchett is my first guest on “All Things Cage” who almost doesn’t need an introduction, as he’s the author of The Music of John Cage, published by Cambridge University Press in 1993, well kno...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on Cage’s "Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake": Sep 18, 2021

I’m your host, Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and tonight I’m in the mood for a lullaby. This made me think about James Joyce, and wonder what to listen to by John Cage, who adored him....

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Cage, On Aspiration and Prescience: Sep 11, 2021

On this the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Kuhn speaks to John Cage’s aspirational thinking and his incredible prescience, both captured beautifully in two text works we’ll listen to tonight: we open with...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Cage, Lecture on Commitment: Sep 04, 2021

On this the eve of what would be John Cage’s 109th birthday, Laura Kuhn talks about and plays a recording of Cage performing a little-known text work entitled Lecture on Commitment, which dates f...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Ray Kass, with Jade Dellinger: Aug 28, 2021

Laura Kuhn is joined this week by Ray Kass, founder and director of The Mountain Lake Workshop, an ongoing series of collaborative and interrelated workshops centered in the environmental, cultural,...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Renée Levine Packer: Aug 21, 2021

Laura Kuhn talks with Renée Levine Packer, whose lengthy career has included such positions as administrator with Lukas Foss and Allen Sapp and co-director with Jan Williams and Morton Feldman of the...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on John Cage and Improvisation, Part I: Jul 24, 2021

Laura Kuhn talks about John Cage and Improvisation, a topic of much interest to Cage aficionados. She draws from Cage’s first and only performance of a little-known work entitled How to Get Starte...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn, Bill Dietz, and Amy Cimini: Jul 17, 2021

Laura Kuhn talks with Bill Dietz and Amy Cimini on the subject of the extraordinary American composer Maryanne Amacher, best known in Cage circles for her contributions to two of Cage’s works: Empty W...

All Things Cage: John Cage Reads Mesostic Poems on Jasper Johns: Jun 05, 2021

“All Things Cage” continues its break from its usual conversational format to allow for a program that celebrates John Cage’s 40-odd year relationship with Jasper Johns (who celebrates his 91st birthd...

Special Remote Broadcast: John Cage Evening: May 28, 2016

The third John Cage Evening hosted by Susan Hendrickson and produced by the John Cage Trust, broadcast live on Wave Farm's WGXC 90.7-FM. The 2016 program featured Laura Kuhn reading from "The Selected...

Other Music: Laura Kuhn: Apr 25, 2015

Laura Kuhn from the John Cage Trust plays the composers works.

Monday Musical Matinee: Cage/Gould Preview: Nov 05, 2012