All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on John Cage, One8 and 108 (1991): Sep 23, 2023

This week’s program is a follow-up to one that aired earlier this month – September 2, to be exact – wherein Kuhn presented Michael Bach’s performance of John Cage’s One8 for solo cello (1991), as cap...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on Michael Bach and John Cage’s "One8" (1991): Sep 02, 2023

This week on “All Things Cage” Laura Kuhn talks about the German cellist, composer, and visual artist Michael Bach and John Cage’s One8 (1991), a late number piece written for and with Bach, released...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on "John Cage at Summerstage" (1992): Aug 12, 2023

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Rob Haskins, Part I: Jul 22, 2023

This week Laura Kuhn talks with Rob Haskins, an American musicologist, critic, performer, and old friend who holds degrees in musicology and harpsichord performance from the University of Rochester Ea...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Anthony de Mare: May 13, 2023

Tonight’s program is a conversation between Laura Kuhn and Anthony de Mare, one of the world’s foremost champions of contemporary music, known for entrepreneurial performance projects that expand the...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on “Chance Conversations: An Interview with Cunningham and Cage” (Walker Art Center, 1981): Apr 29, 2023

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on John Cage's Ryoanji Works at the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac (2018-2019): Apr 15, 2023

Tonight’s program features a recorded program that was created for the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac in London, Salzburg, and Paris, which was heard successively from November 28, 2018 to November 16, 2019 t...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on Martin Friedman and "Il Treno di John Cage": Mar 11, 2023

This week Kuhn returns to the subject of John Cage’s All Ricerca del Silenzio Perduto (1978), familiarly known as Il Treno, by reading a piece written by Martin Friedman about his attendance at the i...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Presents Amelia Cuni’s renditions of 18 Microtonal Ragas from Cage’s “Solo for Voice 58” (Song Books, 1970): Feb 25, 2023

Every now and then I have the pleasure of introducing someone well versed in John Cage’s music to a composition previously unknown. Such was the case this past week, in conversation with the marvelo...

All Things Cage: John Cage and Yvar Mikhashoff Perform Cage's Empty Words with Music for Piano and One7: Feb 04, 2023

Tonight’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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and Stephen Drury Talk about Conducting Cage: Jan 07, 2023

This week Kuhn continues on with the guest and subject of programs for “All Things Cage” for the last couple of weeks, Stephen Drury, a pianist and conductor, long on the faculty of the New England...

All Things Cage: John Cage’s Etcetera (1973) and Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras (1985): Dec 31, 2022

Inspired by last week’s program, a conversation with the accomplished pianist and conductor, Stephen Drury, Kuhn opts to devote this week’s program to two other Cage works produced by Drury for a Mode...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Stephen Drury: Dec 24, 2022

Laura Kuhn talks this week with the accomplished pianist and conductor, Stephen Drury. Well-known as a champion of 20th century music, Drury’s repertoire extends from Bach, Schubert, and Liszt to th...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Speaks with Paul B. Franklin, Part II: Dec 10, 2022

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 Cag...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Paul B. Franklin: Dec 03, 2022

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn, John King, and Adam Tendler: Nov 26, 2022

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...

All Things Cage: John Cage’s “Anarchy” (1988): Oct 29, 2022

Laura Kuhn presents a live recording of John Cage’s performance of his “Anarchy” (1988) on the final day of “John Cage at Wesleyan: A Festival/Symposium about John Cage’s Work and Influence,” organi...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Presents John Cage’s “Overpopulation and Art" (1991): Oct 22, 2022

Laura Kuhn presents a live recording of John Cage’s performance of his “Overpopulation and Art” (1991) at Stanford University’s “Here Comes Everybody: The Music, Poetry, and Art of John Cage” on Janua...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn talks with Stephen Nachmanovitch: Oct 08, 2022

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Presents John Cage's "Europera 5" (1991), with Recollection of the Premiere Performance by Yvar Mikashoff: Oct 01, 2022

Laura Kuhn presents the first recording of John Cage’s Europera 5, preceded by her reading “Recollections of the Premiere Performance by Yvar Mikhashoff.” This recording of Europera 5 was produced b...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on Cage's Use of Chance in Composition, Part 1, "Music of Changes" (1951): Sep 10, 2022

Tonight, Laura Kuhn begins a series of three programs devoted to the subject of Cage’s use of chance composition with a program that focuses on his first fully chance-determined work, Music of Change...

All Things Cage: A New Release by the Latvian Radio Choir, John Cage Choral Works (Ondine, 2022): Aug 20, 2022

"This week we’ll listen to an excerpt from a gorgeous new CD from the Latvian Radio Choir, John Cage Choral Works, conducted by Sigvards Klava, released on the Ondine label, ODE 1402- 2. I’m partia...

All Things Cage: John Cage at Wesleyan University, Part 2: Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Neely Bruce: Aug 13, 2022

Tonight’s program is the second of two that focuses on Cage’s time at Wesleyan University and consists of a conversation between Laura Kuhn and Neely Bruce, one of Cage’s most beloved colleagues there...

All Things Cage: John Cage at Wesleyan University, Part 1: Cage’s Address to the Gentlemen of the Wesleyan Glee Club (1960): Aug 06, 2022

Tonight’s program for “All Things Cage” is the first of two that will focus on Cage’s time at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, which formally began with the academic year 1960-1961 whe...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on Gamelan Cage (Sanggar Ceraken of Bali, 2013): Jul 09, 2022

The parallels between Balinese gamelan and certain works by John Cage – especially the ones of the 'prepared piano' period – seem obvious to many, including John Noise Manis, who, together with Andrew...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Larry List about “The Imagery of Chess Revisited” Exhibition (2006) and John Cage’s Chess Pieces (1944): Jul 02, 2022

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Ray Kass on Morris Graves & John Cage: Jun 18, 2022

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...

All Things Cage: John Cage performing "Communication": May 28, 2022

Tonight on “All Things Cage” we’ll listen to John Cage reading a lengthy excerpt from his Communication, one of the three lectures he performed in Darmstadt, along with Indeterminacy and Changes, in 1...

All Things Cage: John Cage reads "Mushrooms et Variationes": May 21, 2022

Mushrooms et variationes was written by John Cage in the fall of 1983. As he describes it in the introduction to its first publication in The guests go in to supper (Burning Books, 1986) and in his...

All Things Cage: Robert Worby, ‘Silent Witness: John Cage, Zen and Japan’: May 14, 2022

Robert Worby introduces John Cage in this marvelous 2020 BBC Radio 3 documentary, ‘Silent Witness: John Cage, Zen and Japan’ as “…arguably the most important composer of the 20th century, even though...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Dean Rosenthal: May 07, 2022

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn on Cage's Satie, Composition for Museum: Apr 23, 2022

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 Talks About John Cage and The Beatles: Apr 16, 2022

My impression is that the Beatles’ place is not so much in the world of serious music as it is in the world of revolution. I think that serious musicians would do well to follow their example in thi...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Robert Worby, Part II: Apr 09, 2022

This week’s program will once again be a conversation between Laura Kuhn and Robert Worby, a composer, sound artist, and broadcaster based in London. Worby was Kuhn’s guest last week, and they focuse...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn Talks with Robert Worby: Apr 02, 2022

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...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn and John Cage, Lecture on Commitment: Mar 26, 2022

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 Talks with Mikel Rouse: Mar 19, 2022

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...

All Things Cage: Arnold Schoenberg: The First Hundred Years: Mar 12, 2022

Tonight’s “All Things Cage” features a “documentary-fantasy” entitled “Arnold Schoenberg: The First Hundred Years,” produced in 1975 for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation by the celebrated Canad...

All Things Cage: Laura Kuhn talks with Joan La Barbara: Mar 05, 2022

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...

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 About The Works Comprising Cage's “Ten Thousand Things” Project (1953-1956), Part I: Jan 01, 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 This...

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...