Laura Kuhn Talks with Trevor Carlson About Cage, Cunningham, and Food, Part I: Nov 27, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Stuart Isacoff: Nov 22, 2021: 4am - 5am

Laura Kuhn talks with Stuart Isacoff, who’s been active across North America and Europe as a writer, pianist, composer, and lecturer. His presence in the cultural landscape over the past decades has...

Stuart Isacoff: Nov 20, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

Laura Kuhn talks with Stuart Isacoff, who’s been active across North America and Europe as a writer, pianist, composer, and lecturer. His presence in the cultural landscape over the past decades has...

20211115: Nov 15, 2021: 4am - 5am

"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 speaks with Margaret Leng Tan: Nov 13, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

20211108: Nov 08, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn and John Kelly: Nov 06, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

Laura Kuhn talks with John Kelly, an award-winning singer, dancer, and writer, as well as performance and visual artist. His performance works range in scale from solo to larger ensemble, and stem fro...

Joan Retallack, Part I: Nov 01, 2021: 4am - 5am

Laura Kuhn speaks 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 Professor (...

Laura Kuhn speaks with Joan Retallack, Part I: Oct 30, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

20211025: Oct 25, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn on John Cage’s "Lecture on the Weather": Oct 23, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

Tonight on “All Things Cage” Kuhn shares a special recording from the archives of the John Cage Trust – a live performance of Cage’s Lecture on the Weather (1975), directed by Kuhn, produced by Bard...

John Cage's "Variations VII": Oct 18, 2021: 4am - 5am

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...

Laura Kuhn on John Cage's "Variations VII": Oct 16, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

20211011: Oct 11, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn on Cage's Satie, Composition for Museum: Oct 04, 2021: 4am - 5am

Today’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 for...

Laura Kuhn on Cage's Satie, Composition for Museum: Oct 02, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

20210927: Sep 27, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn and James Pritchett: Sep 25, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn on Cage’s "Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake": Sep 20, 2021: 4am - 5am

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....

Laura Kuhn on Cage’s "Writing for the Second Time Through Finnegans Wake": Sep 18, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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....

20210913: Sep 13, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn and John Cage, On Aspiration and Prescience: Sep 11, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Lecture on Commitment: Sep 06, 2021: 4am - 5am

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...

Laura Kuhn and John Cage, Lecture on Commitment: Sep 04, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

20210830: Aug 30, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn and Ray Kass, with Jade Dellinger: Aug 28, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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,...

20210823: Aug 23, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn and Renée Levine Packer: Aug 21, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

20210816: Aug 16, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn and Gene Caprioglio: Aug 14, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

Laura Kuhn is joined this week by Gene Caprioglio, long-time Vice President for New Music and Rights at C.F. Peters, the music publishing concern that has represented John Cage since 1960. Gene shares...

20210809: Aug 09, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn and John Cage: Aug 07, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

John Cage was a singularly inventive American composer whose principal contribution to the history of music was his systematic establishment of the principle of indeterminacy: by adapting Zen Buddhist...

20210802: Aug 02, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn on John Cage and Improvisation, Part II: Jul 31, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

Last week, Kuhn focused Part I upon a little-known work by Cage entitled How to Get Started, conceived in 1989 for “Sound Design: An Invitational Conference on the Uses of Sound for Radio Drama, Fil...

20210726: Jul 26, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn on John Cage and Improvisation, Part I: Jul 24, 2021: 1pm - 2pm

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...

Bill Dietz, and Amy Cimini: Jul 19, 2021: 4am - 5am

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...

Laura Kuhn, Bill Dietz, and Amy Cimini: Jul 17, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

20210712: Jul 12, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn and Jade Dellinger, Part 2: Jul 10, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

Here we are at Part 2 of my conversation with Jade Dellinger, director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern State College (formerly Edison State College). There’s much to talk abou...

20210705: Jul 05, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 gues...

Laura Kuhn and Jade Dellinger, Part 1: Jul 03, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

Laura Kuhn talks with Jade Dellinger, a long-time independent curator who since 2013 has been the director of the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery at Florida Southwestern College (formerly Edison State Colleg...

Laura Kuhn and John Cage’s "33 1/3": Jun 28, 2021: 4am - 5am

“All Things Cage” continues its break from its usual conversational format to allow for an introductory program that takes a closer look at Cage’s composition 33 1/3, scored for 12 turntables, 21 ster...

Laura Kuhn and John Cage’s "33 1/3": Jun 26, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

“All Things Cage” continues its break from its usual conversational format to allow for an introductory program that takes a closer look at Cage’s composition 33 1/3, scored for 12 turntables, 21 ste...

Julie Lazar: Jun 21, 2021: 4am - 5am

Laura Kuhn talks with curator Julie Lazar, best known in Cage circles for her collaborative work with John Cage on his composition for museum, “Rolywholyover   A Circus,” composed on a...

Laura Kuhn and Julie Lazar: Jun 19, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

Laura Kuhn talks with curator Julie Lazar, best known in Cage circles for her collaborative work with John Cage on his composition for museum, “Rolywholyover   A Circus,” composed on a...

Laura Kuhn Introduces Cage's Interest in the "Circus" as a Compositional Strategy: Jun 14, 2021: 4am - 5am

“All Things Cage” continues its break from its usual conversational format to allow for an introductory program that examines Cage’s interest in the “circus” as a compositional tool and form, with em...

Laura Kuhn Introduces Cage's Interest in the "Circus" as a Compositional Strategy: Jun 12, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

“All Things Cage” continues its break from its usual conversational format to allow for an introductory program that examines Cage’s interest in the “circus” as a compositional tool and form, with em...

John Cage Reads Mesostic Poems on Jasper Johns: Jun 07, 2021: 4am - 5am

“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...

John Cage Reads Mesostic Poems on Jasper Johns: Jun 05, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

“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...