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All Things Cage: Conversations about John Cage

Hosted by Laura Kuhn, Executive Director of the John Cage Trust.

4th Tuesdays from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.; 1st Saturdays from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m.

All Things Cage Show Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Rozart Mix at the John Cage Trust. (Jun 22, 2024)

Christian Marclay performing in “John Cage, 33 1/3, Performed by Audience,” Tampa Museum of Art 2012.. ©Sasha Rae, photographer. (Jun 08, 2024)

John Cage, Europeras 1 & 2 (1987). ©Beatriz Schiller (1988) (Dec 28, 2023)

Adam Tendler and John King in “Unavailable Memory: In Conversation with Cunningham & Cage”. Courtesy of the Merce Cunningham Trust.

All Things Cage: A New Release by the Latvian Radio Choir, John Cage Choral Works (Ondine, 2022) Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Aaron Larget-Caplan with Laura Kuhn Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Aaron Larget-Caplan' Bacchanale Guitar Preparation. Courtesy Aaron Larget-Caplan

All Things Cage: Arnold Schoenberg Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Emy Martin and Laura Kuhn Broadcast Image. Courtesy Laura Kuhn.

All Things Cage: Finnegans Wake. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: John Cage at Wesleyan University, Part 1: Cage’s Address to the Gentlemen of the Wesleyan Glee Club Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: John Cage at Wesleyan University, Part 2: Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Neely Bruce Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: John Cage performing "Communication" Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: John Cage reads "Mushrooms et Variationes". Photograph of John Cage ©John Fago, Courtesy of the Other Minds Archive.

All Things Cage: John Cage Reads Mesostic Poems on Jasper Johns Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: John Cage Speaks with Conlon Nancarrow Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Aaron Larget-Caplan Interview Screenshot. Courtesy Laura Kuhn.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Ars Nova Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Brian Brant Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Emanuel Dimas di Melo Pimenta Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Gene Caprioglio Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Jade Dellinger, Part 1 Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and James Pritchett Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Jeff Arnal Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Cage Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Cage, Lecture on Commitment Broadcast Image. John Cage with Yvar Mihkashoff Photographed by Keith Gemerek. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Cage, On Aspiration and Prescience Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Cage’s "33 1/3" Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Kelly Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Jonathan Hiam Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Julie Lazar Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Lawrence Voytek Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Paul Lazar Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Ray Kass, with Jade Dellinger Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Renée Levine Packer Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Richard Kraft Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Stefano Pocci Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Victoria Miguel Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Introduces John Cage Reading "Time (Three Autokus)" (1988) Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Introduces John Cage Reading from his Series re Morris Graves Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on Cage's Satie, Composition for Museum Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on Gamelan Cage (Sanggar Ceraken of Bali, 2013) Broadcast Image.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on John Cage and Improvisation, Part I Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on John Cage and Improvisation, Part II Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust. Photo ©Loren Robare.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on John Cage's "Variations VII" Broadcast Image. Photos provided courtesy Julie Martin/E.A.T.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on John Cage’s "Lecture on the Weather" Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust. Photo ©Donald Dieetz.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on Martin Friedman and "Il Treno di John Cage" Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust. ©Corinto Marianelli.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn speaks with Joan Retallack Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn speaks with Margaret Leng Tan Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust. Photo ©Ralph Benko.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Speaks with Paul B. Franklin, Part II Broadcast Image. Photo by Calvin Tomkins.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks About John Cage and The Beatles Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks About The Works Comprising Cage's “Ten Thousand Things” Project (1953-1956), Part II Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn talks with Joan La Barbara Broadcast Image. Laura Kuhn (left) Photo ©Ralph Benko. Joan La Barbara (right) ©Ellen Rietbrock. Courtesy The John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Ken Tabachnick Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Mikel Rouse Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust. Photo of Mikel Rouse ©Eric Calvy.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn talks with Nancy Dalva Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Paul B. Franklin Broadcast Image. Provided Courtesy of Paul B. Franklin.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Ray Kass on Morris Graves & John Cage Broadcast Image. Photo courtesy the John Cage Trust. ©Peter Lau

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Richard Kraft Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Rob Haskins, Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Robert Worby Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn talks with Stephen Nachmanovitch Broadcast Image.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn talks with Stuart Isacoff Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Tom Moore Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Trevor Carlson About Cage, Cunningham, and Food, Part I Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust. Photo©Mark Seliger.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Trevor Carlson About Cage, Cunningham, and Food, Part II Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn with Lisa Pearson and Richard Kraft Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn with Russell Hartenberger and Garry Kvistad Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn, Bill Dietz, and Amy Cimini Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

All Things Cage: Robert Worby, ‘Silent Witness: John Cage, Zen and Japan’ Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust. From the I Ching.

Brent Reidy.

John Cage. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

John Cage "Music of Changes" Manuscript Fragment. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

John Cage and Merce Cunningham on Tour Bus

John Cage and Yvar Mikhashoff. Photographed by Keith Gemerek. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

John Cage and Yvar Mikhashoff. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

John Cage, 1970. Photographed by James Klotsy.

John Cage's "108" released on OgreOgress (1991) Cover. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

Laura Kuhn on "John Cage at Summerstage" (1992) Broadcast Image. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

Laura Kuhn Presents John Cage’s “Overpopulation and Art" (1991) Broadcast Image. Courtesy The John Cage Trust. ©Guido Harari

Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham and Adam Tendler. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

OM Amelia CD Cover and Solo for Voice 58 Score. Courtesy the John Cage Trust.

Performing Eric Salzman's Arrangement of In a Landscape. Courtesy The John Cage Trust.

Stephen Drury Portrait. Photographed by Lisa Kohler.

"All Things Cage" is a weekly program featuring conversations between Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and Cage experts and enthusiasts from around the world. If you’d like to propose a guest or a topic for a future program, write directly to Laura at lkuhn@johncage.org. She’d love to hear from you.

The late Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman once described his Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage (Knopf, 2012) as the hardest book he’d ever written. This was because, as he put it, pick up any rock and there’s John Cage! Indeed, Cage was not only a world-renowned composer, numbering among his compositions the still notoriously tacet 4’33”, but a ground-breaking poet, a philosopher, a chess master who studied with Marcel Duchamp, a macrobiotic chef, a devotee of Zen Buddhism, a prolific visual artist, and an avid and pioneering mycologist. He was also life partner to the celebrated American choreographer, Merce Cunningham, for nearly half a century, and thus well known in the world of modern dance.

No wonder, then, that nearly everyone who encounters the man or his life’s work has something interesting to say about John Cage!