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...

Ars Nova: May 31, 2021: 4am - 5am

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...

Laura Kuhn and Ars Nova: May 29, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

20210524: May 24, 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 Paul Lazar: May 22, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Richard Kraft: May 17, 2021: 4am - 5am

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...

Richard Kraft: May 15, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Aaron Larget-Caplan: May 10, 2021: 4am - 5am

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...

Aaron Larget-Caplan with Laura Kuhn, II: May 08, 2021: 7pm - 8pm

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...