All Things Cage: John Cage, Performing "Mureau" at Naropa, January 1979: Feb 19, 2022

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Ken Tabachnick: Feb 12, 2022

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...

All Things Cage: John Cage Speaks with Conlon Nancarrow: Feb 05, 2022

This evening we’ll listen to John Cage and Conlon Nancarrow engage in a public conversation that took place on Sunday, Aug. 20, 1989, within the proceedings of the 1989 Telluride Institute known as “...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn talks with Nancy Dalva: Jan 29, 2022

Laura Kuhn talks with Nancy Dalva, a writer well known in dance circles who has long resided in New York City. Nancy has had an almost lifelong relationship with the work of Mere Cunningham, and in 2...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Introduces John Cage Reading "Time (Three Autokus)" (1988): Jan 22, 2022

In April of 1988, the Neuberger Museum at the State University in Purchase presented its seventh series of Leonard C. Yaseen Lectures, the year’s chosen speakers addressing the subject of “time” fro...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks About The Works Comprising Cage's “Ten Thousand Things” Project (1953-1956), Part II: Jan 08, 2022

“The thing to do is to keep the head alert but empty. Things come to pass, arising and disappearing. There can then be no consideration of error. Things are always going wrong.” --John Cage...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Richard Kraft: Dec 25, 2021

Tonight on “All Things Cage” Kuhn talks with Los Angeles and Hudson Valley-based artist Richard Kraft about his new book – or, properly, books – titled It Is What It is: All the Cards Issued to Donald...

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 talks with Stuart Isacoff: Nov 20, 2021

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...

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 and Gene Caprioglio: Aug 14, 2021

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Cage: Aug 07, 2021

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on John Cage and Improvisation, Part II: Jul 31, 2021

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...

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: Laura Kuhn and Jade Dellinger, Part 2: Jul 10, 2021

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Jade Dellinger, Part 1: Jul 03, 2021

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Cage’s "33 1/3": Jun 26, 2021

“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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Julie Lazar: Jun 19, 2021

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Introduces Cage's Interest in the "Circus" as a Compositional Strategy.: Jun 12, 2021

“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...

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Ars Nova: May 29, 2021

Laura Kuhn breaks from her usual conversational format tonight to simply share a few of her favorite John Cage vocal works performed by one of her favorite vocal groups, Ars Nova. Ars Nova is a Danis...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Paul Lazar: May 22, 2021

Laura Kuhn’s guest this week is Paul Lazar, an award-winning actor, director, and (often dancing) performer who has appeared in more than 30 feature films, including Silence of the Lambs, Snowpierce...

All Things Cage: Richard Kraft: May 15, 2021

Laura Kuhn talks with artist Richard Kraft about the John Cage/Morton Feldman “Radio Happenings,” five programs that were aired on New York City’s WBAI between July 1966 and January 1967. These Rad...

All Things Cage: Aaron Larget-Caplan with Laura Kuhn, II: May 08, 2021

The international recording, touring, and guitar virtuoso Aaron Larget-Caplan is back for the third time, having more questions for our host. Larget-Caplan was Laura Kuhn’s second guest on All Th...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Kelly: Apr 24, 2021

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Emanuel Dimas di Melo Pimenta: Apr 17, 2021

Laura Kuhn talks with Emanuel Dimas di Melo Pimenta, a true Renaissance man who has functioned throughout his lengthy career as a composer, architect, urban planner, photographer, and writer. He hail...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Lawrence Voytek: Apr 10, 2021

Laura Kuhn talks with Lawrence Voytek, who, for 25 years, served as studio assistant to the celebrated American artist and one of John Cage’s closest friends, Robert Rauschenberg. Lawrence is not a tr...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Brian Brandt: Apr 03, 2021

Laura Kuhn talks with Brian Brandt, who founded Mode Records with its first recording in 1984 of John Cage’s Etudes Borealis, in a 2-LP set. Brian has long had the intention of recording all of Cage’...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn with Lisa Pearson and Richard Kraft: Mar 27, 2021

Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, talks with Lisa Pearson, publisher of Siglio Press, and artist Richard Kraft, one of two co-editors of the first complete edition of all eight parts of Jo...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Cage: Mar 20, 2021

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...

All Things Cage: Aaron Larget-Caplan with Laura Kuhn: Mar 13, 2021

The international recording, touring, and guitar virtuoso Aaron Larget-Caplan was Laura Kuhn’s second guest on All Things Cage on January 9, 2021, and soon after he was asking for an ex post facto q...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and James Pritchett: Mar 06, 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 and Victoria Miguel: Feb 27, 2021

Victoria Miguel is a UK-based writer, teacher, publisher, and producer, who fell in love with John Cage while in college during an art history lecture at the University of Edinburgh. Kuhn and Miguel...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Jeff Arnal: Feb 20, 2021

Jeff Arnal has worked in the arts and nonprofit sector for the past two decades. Prior to coming to the Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center in 2016, he worked as a Senior Specialist for the Pe...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Stefano Pocci: Feb 06, 2021

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn with Pascale Georgiev and Kingston Trinder: Jan 30, 2021

Laura Kuhn converses with Pascale Georgiev and Kingston Trinder, founding principals of Atelier Éditions, an independent publishing house and creative consultancy established in 2015. Developing col...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn with Russell Hartenberger and Garry Kvistad: Jan 23, 2021

Russell Hartenberger and Garry Kvistad are long-time members of NEXUS, a quartet of master percussionists internationally revered for virtuosity and innovation and for making extraordinary music with...