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 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...

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 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...

Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Anthony de Mare: Apr 08, 2024: 5am - 6am

This 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 reper...

Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Anthony de Mare: Apr 06, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Robert Worby, Part II: Apr 01, 2024: 5am - 6am

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...

Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Robert Worby, Part II: Mar 30, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

John Cage reads "Mushrooms et Variationes": Feb 05, 2024: 5am - 6am

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...

John Cage reads "Mushrooms et Variationes": Feb 03, 2024: 7pm - 8pm

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...

WKCR's “Birthday Broadcast”/Opera Mix for and with John Cage (1987), Part III (conclusion): Jan 15, 2024: 5am - 6am

Laura Kuhn writes, “Tonight’s program continues with Part III, the conclusion of a “Birthday Celebration Broadcast”/Opera Mix created with and for the “Great John Cage,” which has been airing for...

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

Laura Kuhn writes, “Tonight’s program continues with Part III, the conclusion of a “Birthday Celebration Broadcast”/Opera Mix created with and for the “Great John Cage,” which has been airing for...

WKCR's “Birthday Broadcast”/Opera Mix for and with John Cage (1987), Part II: Jan 06, 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...

John Cage performing "Communication": Dec 09, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

Today 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 195...

Laura Kuhn and James Pritchett: Dec 02, 2023: 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...

Martin Friedman and "Il Treno di John Cage": Nov 20, 2023: 5am - 6am

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...

Laura Kuhn on Martin Friedman and "Il Treno di John Cage": Nov 18, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn Presents John Cage’s “Overpopulation and Art" (1991): Nov 11, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

John Cage’s “Anarchy” (1988): Nov 04, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Stephen Drury: Oct 21, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Tom Moore: Oct 09, 2023: 3pm - 4pm

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...

Tom Moore: Oct 09, 2023: 5am - 6am

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...

The Works Comprising Cage's “Ten Thousand Things” Project (1953-1956), Part II: Oct 02, 2023: 5am - 6am

“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...

Laura Kuhn Talks About The Works Comprising Cage's “Ten Thousand Things” Project (1953-1956), Part II: Sep 30, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

“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...

Laura Kuhn on John Cage, One8 and 108 (1991): Sep 23, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn Introduces John Cage Reading "Time (Three Autokus)" (1988): Sep 16, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn on Michael Bach and John Cage’s "One8" (1991): Sep 02, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

John Cage at Summerstage (1992): Aug 14, 2023: 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): Aug 12, 2023: 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...

Laura Kuhn on John Cage's Ryoanji Works at the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac (2018-2019): Aug 07, 2023: 5am - 6am

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...

Laura Kuhn on John Cage's Ryoanji Works at the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac (2018-2019): Aug 05, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Rob Haskins, Part I: Jul 22, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

John Cage at Wesleyan University, Part 2: Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Neely Bruce: Jul 01, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Trevor Carlson About Cage, Cunningham, and Food, Part I: Jun 05, 2023: 5am - 6am

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...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Trevor Carlson About Cage, Cunningham, and Food, Part I: Jun 03, 2023: 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...

Laura Kuhn Presents John Cage’s “Overpopulation and Art" (1991): May 30, 2023: 3pm - 4pm

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...

Laura Kuhn Presents John Cage’s “Overpopulation and Art" (1991): May 26, 2023: 2pm - 3pm

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...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Tom Moore: May 20, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Anthony de Mare: May 15, 2023: 5am - 6am

This 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 reper...

Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Anthony de Mare: May 13, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Amelia Cuni’s renditions of 18 Microtonal Ragas from Cage’s “Solo for Voice 58” (Song Books, 1970): May 08, 2023: 5am - 6am

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...

Laura Kuhn Presents Amelia Cuni’s renditions of 18 Microtonal Ragas from Cage’s “Solo for Voice 58” (Song Books, 1970): May 05, 2023: 2pm - 3pm

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...

Laura Kuhn speaks with Margaret Leng Tan: Apr 22, 2023: 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...

John Cage's Ryoanji Works at the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac (2018-2019): Apr 17, 2023: 5am - 6am

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...

Laura Kuhn on John Cage's Ryoanji Works at the Galerie Thaddeus Ropac (2018-2019): Apr 15, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn on Martin Friedman and "Il Treno di John Cage": Mar 11, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Amelia Cuni’s renditions of 18 Microtonal Ragas from Cage’s “Solo for Voice 58” (Song Books, 1970): Feb 27, 2023: 5am - 6am

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...

Laura Kuhn Presents Amelia Cuni’s renditions of 18 Microtonal Ragas from Cage’s “Solo for Voice 58” (Song Books, 1970): Feb 25, 2023: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn on Cage's Satie, Composition for Museum: Jan 30, 2023: 5am - 6am

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...