20251231: Dec 31, 2025: 10am - 11am

"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 gu...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Martin Iddon: Oct 31, 2025: 3pm - 4pm

Laura Kuhn talks this week with UK composer and author Martin Iddon about three of his books to date – New Music at Darmstadt: Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez (2013), John Cage and David Tudor: Co...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Martin Iddon: Oct 29, 2025: 10am - 11am

Laura Kuhn talks this week with UK composer and author Martin Iddon about three of his books to date – New Music at Darmstadt: Nono, Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez (2013), John Cage and David Tudor: Co...

LAURA KUHN ON AN EVENING OF JOHN CAGE: HPSCHD / BIRDCAGE (EMF CD 081, 2012): Aug 29, 2025: 3pm - 4pm

This week’s program for “All Things Cage” marks Kuhn’s brink of retirement as Director of the John Cage Trust as well as her return to new programming for WGXC 90.7, not weekly, as before, but four ti...

LAURA KUHN ON AN EVENING OF JOHN CAGE: HPSCHD / BIRDCAGE (EMF CD 081, 2012): Jul 30, 2025: 10am - 11am

This week’s program for “All Things Cage” marks Kuhn’s brink of retirement as Director of the John Cage Trust as well as her return to new programming for WGXC 90.7, not weekly, as before, but four ti...

Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Brent Reidy: Jul 05, 2025: 8pm - 9pm

Laura Kuhn speaks with 40-year-old music historian Brent Reidy who was recently named director of the research libraries of the New York Public Library. This put him at the helm of four vast public r...

Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Brent Reidy: Jun 24, 2025: 2pm - 3pm

Laura Kuhn speaks with 40-year-old music historian Brent Reidy who was recently named director of the research libraries of the New York Public Library. This put him at the helm of four vast public r...

Laura Kuhn on “Chance Conversations: An Interview with Cunningham and Cage” (Walker Art Center, 1981): Jun 07, 2025: 8pm - 9pm

Laura Kuhn introduces “Chance Conversations: An Interview with Cunningham and Cage,” which took place during a residency at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1981. As almost life-l...

Laura Kuhn on “Chance Conversations: An Interview with Cunningham and Cage” (Walker Art Center, 1981): May 27, 2025: 2pm - 3pm

Laura Kuhn introduces “Chance Conversations: An Interview with Cunningham and Cage,” which took place during a residency at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota in 1981. As almost life-l...

John Cage and Yvar Mikhashoff Perform Cage's Empty Words with Music for Piano and One7: Apr 22, 2025: 2pm - 3pm

Today's program features a wonderful performance by John Cage and Yvar Mikhashoff of Cage’s Empty Words (1973-1974) with excerpts from Music for Piano, a series begun some 40 years earlier, as well a...

Laura Kuhn Speaks with Paul B. Franklin, Part II: Apr 05, 2025: 8pm - 9pm

This week’s program brings back Paul B. Franklin, an independent scholar and a leading expert on Marcel Duchamp based in Paris and Céret who graced us with his presence last week on “All Things Cage.”...

Laura Kuhn Speaks with Paul B. Franklin, Part II: Mar 25, 2025: 2pm - 3pm

This week’s program brings back Paul B. Franklin, an independent scholar and a leading expert on Marcel Duchamp based in Paris and Céret who graced us with his presence last week on “All Things Cage.”...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Paul B. Franklin: Mar 01, 2025: 8pm - 9pm

This week’s guest is Paul B. Franklin, an independent scholar and a leading expert on Marcel Duchamp based in Paris and Céret. From 2000 to 2016, Paul was the editor in chief of the annual, bi-lingua...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Paul B. Franklin: Feb 25, 2025: 2pm - 3pm

This week’s guest is Paul B. Franklin, an independent scholar and a leading expert on Marcel Duchamp based in Paris and Céret. From 2000 to 2016, Paul was the editor in chief of the annual, bi-lingua...

Laura Kuhn, John King, and Adam Tendler: Feb 01, 2025: 8pm - 9pm

Laura Kuhn talks with John King and Adam Tendler, two musicians long associated with the work of both Merce Cunningham and John Cage, about their recent collaboration on “Unavailable Memory: In Conver...

Laura Kuhn, John King, and Adam Tendler: Jan 28, 2025: 2pm - 3pm

Laura Kuhn talks with John King and Adam Tendler, two musicians long associated with the work of both Merce Cunningham and John Cage, about their recent collaboration on “Unavailable Memory: In Conver...

Laura Kuhn talks with Stephen Nachmanovitch: Jan 04, 2025: 8pm - 9pm

Laura Kuhn talks with Stephen Nachmanovitch, an improvisational violinist who works at the intersections of music, dance, theater, and multimedia arts. Born in 1950, Stephen graduated in 1971 from Ha...

Laura Kuhn talks with Stephen Nachmanovitch: Dec 24, 2024: 2pm - 3pm

Laura Kuhn talks with Stephen Nachmanovitch, an improvisational violinist who works at the intersections of music, dance, theater, and multimedia arts. Born in 1950, Stephen graduated in 1971 from Ha...

20241207: Dec 07, 2024: 8pm - 9pm

"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 gu...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Larry List about “The Imagery of Chess Revisited” Exhibition (2006) and John Cage’s Chess Pieces (1944): Nov 26, 2024: 2pm - 3pm

Laura Kuhn talks this week with Larry List, a New York-based curator and artist who’s been engaged for years with artists and composers whose works and lives have involved chess. They talk primaril...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Ray Kass on Morris Graves & John Cage: Nov 02, 2024: 8pm - 9pm

This week Laura Kuhn talks with Ray Kass, Professor Emeritus of Art at Virginia Tech and founding director of The Mountain Lake Workshop, an ongoing series of collaborative and inter-related worksho...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Ray Kass on Morris Graves & John Cage: Oct 22, 2024: 2pm - 3pm

This week Laura Kuhn talks with Ray Kass, Professor Emeritus of Art at Virginia Tech and founding director of The Mountain Lake Workshop, an ongoing series of collaborative and inter-related worksho...

Laura Kuhn Introduces John Cage Reading from his Series re Morris Graves (1973): Oct 05, 2024: 8pm - 9pm

This week we listen to an excerpt of John Cage reading from his Series re Morris Graves (1973), a lengthy text work first published in 1974 as an introduction to The Drawings of Morris Graves, edit...

Laura Kuhn Introduces John Cage Reading from his Series re Morris Graves (1973): Sep 24, 2024: 2pm - 3pm

This week we listen to an excerpt of John Cage reading from his Series re Morris Graves (1973), a lengthy text work first published in 1974 as an introduction to The Drawings of Morris Graves, edit...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Dean Rosenthal: Sep 07, 2024: 8pm - 9pm

Kuhn’s guest today is the amiable composer Dean Rosenthal, a resident of Martha’s Vineyard, where in 2012 he composed his ongoing international performance piece Stones/Water/Time/Breath. This has bec...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Dean Rosenthal: Aug 27, 2024: 2pm - 3pm

Kuhn’s guest today is the amiable composer Dean Rosenthal, a resident of Martha’s Vineyard, where in 2012 he composed his ongoing international performance piece Stones/Water/Time/Breath. This has bec...

20240803: Aug 03, 2024: 8pm - 9pm

"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 gu...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Robert Worby: Jul 23, 2024: 2pm - 3pm

Laura Kuhn talks with Robert Worby, a London-based composer, performer, and broadcaster. His works cross many boundaries and are created for many different situations including gallery spaces and th...

WKCR's “Birthday Broadcast”/Opera Mix for and with John Cage (1987), Part II: Jul 13, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

Laura Kuhn writes, “Tonight’s program continues with Part II of a “Birthday Celebration Broadcast,” in effect an “opera mix” being created with and for the “Great John Cage,” that began with Part...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Mikel Rouse: Jul 01, 2024: 5am - 6am

Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer, and recording artist who was hailed by the NY Times as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” His works include...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Mikel Rouse: Jun 29, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

Mikel Rouse is a New York-based composer, director, performer, and recording artist who was hailed by the NY Times as “a composer many believe to be the best of his generation.” His works include...

20240624: Jun 24, 2024: 5am - 6am

"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 gu...

Rozart Mix at the John Cage Trust: Jun 22, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

In January of 2021, I spent a wonderful and intense week researching ROZART MIX at the John Cage Trust at Bard College.  It was the first place I had visited during the pandemic.  On Oct. 23...

Laura Kuhn talks with Joan La Barbara: Jun 17, 2024: 5am - 6am

Laura Kuhn talks with vocalist and composer Joan La Barbara, who’s renowned for developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques influencing generations of other composers...

Laura Kuhn talks with Joan La Barbara: Jun 15, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

Laura Kuhn talks with vocalist and composer Joan La Barbara, who’s renowned for developing a unique vocabulary of experimental and extended vocal techniques influencing generations of other composers...

20240610: Jun 10, 2024: 5am - 6am

"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 gu...

Laura Kuhn on Christian Marclay’s "More Encores" (1997): Jun 08, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

Tonight's program is devoted to Christian Marclay's marvelous More Encores, a playful and refreshing recording project first released on 10" vinyl record in Germany in 1988, and later, in the late 199...

John Cage, Performing "Mureau" at Naropa, January 1979: Jun 03, 2024: 5am - 6am

One author whose work held special interest for John Cage was Henry David Thoreau. As Hans Otte recounts in his beautiful liner notes that accompany the New World Records CD 80540 that captured the co...

John Cage, Performing "Mureau" at Naropa, January 1979: Jun 01, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

One author whose work held special interest for John Cage was Henry David Thoreau. As Hans Otte recounts in his beautiful liner notes that accompany the New World Records CD 80540 that captured the co...

20240527: May 27, 2024: 5am - 6am

"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 gu...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Ken Tabachnick: May 25, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

Laura Kuhn talks with Ken Tabachnick, who is currently the Executive Director of the Merce Cunningham Trust, where he oversees all operations and long-term planning. Prior to that, he worked as a co...

Laura Kuhn and Renée Levine Packer: May 20, 2024: 5am - 6am

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...

Laura Kuhn and Renée Levine Packer: May 18, 2024: 9am - 10am

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...

Laura Kuhn on Larry A Fader's "120’00”: A Conversation with John Cage" (2012): May 13, 2024: 5am - 6am

This week we listen to Larry A. Fader’s 120’00”: A Conversation with John Cage, with art by John Cage, and a foreword by Tenzin Robert Thurman, which was published in 2012 in Toronto by Nine Point Pu...

Laura Kuhn on Larry A Fader's "120’00”: A Conversation with John Cage" (2012): May 11, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

This week we listen to Larry A. Fader’s 120’00”: A Conversation with John Cage, with art by John Cage, and a foreword by Tenzin Robert Thurman, which was published in 2012 in Toronto by Nine Point Pu...

Laura Kuhn on "John Cage at Summerstage" (1992): May 06, 2024: 5am - 6am

This week on “All Things Cage” Kuhn opts to do one more program on the subject of Cage’s “number pieces,” this time focusing on his Four6 (1992). The recording we will hear is a concert given at Summe...

Laura Kuhn on "John Cage at Summerstage" (1992): May 05, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

This week on “All Things Cage” Kuhn opts to do one more program on the subject of Cage’s “number pieces,” this time focusing on his Four6 (1992). The recording we will hear is a concert given at Summe...

20240429: Apr 29, 2024: 5am - 6am

"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 gu...

20240427: Apr 27, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

"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 gu...

Stefano Pocci: Apr 22, 2024: 5am - 6am

Stefano Pocci is fondly known at the John Cage Trust as our “Italian Correspondent” for his tireless sleuthing into all things having to do with John Cage in Italy. He originally set out to locate the...