John Cage’s Etcetera (1973) and Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras (1985): Jan 02, 2023: 4am - 5am

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...

John Cage’s Etcetera (1973) and Etcetera 2/4 Orchestras (1985): Dec 31, 2022: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Stephen Drury: Dec 24, 2022: 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...

Tom Moore: Dec 19, 2022: 4am - 5am

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 Talks with Tom Moore: Dec 17, 2022: 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...

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

John Cage’s “Overpopulation and Art" (1991): Oct 24, 2022: 4am - 5am

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): Oct 22, 2022: 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...

Laura Kuhn and James Pritchett: Oct 15, 2022: 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 talks with Stephen Nachmanovitch: Oct 08, 2022: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Laura Kuhn Introduces John Cage Reading "Time (Three Autokus)" (1988): Sep 03, 2022: 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...

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

John Cage performing "Communication": May 28, 2022: 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...

John Cage reads "Mushrooms et Variationes": May 23, 2022: 4am - 5am

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": May 21, 2022: 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...

Laura Kuhn on Cage's Satie, Composition for Museum: Apr 25, 2022: 4am - 5am

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...

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

Laura Kuhn in Conversation with Robert Worby, Part II: Apr 11, 2022: 4am - 5am

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: Apr 09, 2022: 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...

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

Arnold Schoenberg: The First Hundred Years: Mar 12, 2022: 7pm - 8pm

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...

Joan La Barbara: Mar 07, 2022: 4am - 5am

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 Joan La Barbara: Mar 05, 2022: 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 Introduces John Cage Reading "Time (Three Autokus)" (1988): Feb 28, 2022: 4am - 5am

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 Introduces John Cage Reading "Time (Three Autokus)" (1988): Feb 26, 2022: 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 Talks with Ken Tabachnick: Feb 14, 2022: 4am - 5am

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 Talks with Ken Tabachnick: Feb 12, 2022: 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...

Conlon Nancarrow: Feb 07, 2022: 4am - 5am

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 “...

John Cage Speaks with Conlon Nancarrow: Feb 05, 2022: 7pm - 8pm

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 “...

Laura Kuhn Introduces John Cage Reading "Time (Three Autokus)" (1988): Jan 24, 2022: 4am - 5am

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 Introduces John Cage Reading "Time (Three Autokus)" (1988): Jan 22, 2022: 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 Talks About The Works Comprising Cage's “Ten Thousand Things” Project (1953-1956), Part II: Jan 10, 2022: 4am - 5am

“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: Jan 08, 2022: 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...

Tom Moore: Dec 20, 2021: 4am - 5am

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 tur...

Laura Kuhn Talks with Tom Moore: Dec 18, 2021: 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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Litany: Sep 03, 2020: 7:30 pm - 9pm

Enter the dreamspace of LITANY. Poets Anselm Berrigan and Kyle Dacuyan perform the joyously intimate, simultaneous columns of “Litany,” John Ashbery’s monumental meditation on knowing, memory, and pre...

John Cage Mycology Day, A Mycomacromicrocosm: Oct 07, 2018: 1pm - 6pm

John Cage was an enthusiastic mycologist who expressed his interest in fungi in his music, his text compositions, and his visual art works, as well as in his lifelong mushroom collecting and identific...

All Poetry: Apr 12, 2018: 2pm - 3pm

From Montaigne, "I do not paint the being, I paint the passage." This month: All Poetry. The City Wears a Slouch Hat, the John Cage/Kenneth Patchen collaboration as broadcast live on CBS in 1942; Edit...

John Cage and Morton Feldman - Radio Happenings (1966): Feb 04, 2017: 1am - 2am

John Cage and Morton Feldman: Radio Happenings (1966) Composers John Cage and Morton Feldman recorded four free-styling conversations at the studios of radio station WBAI in New York between July 1966...

The Selected Letters of John Cage: Nov 21, 2016: 6:30 pm - 9pm

In celebration of the publication of The Selected Letters of John Cage, e.d Laura Kuhn (Wesleyan University Press, 2016), we are pleased to partner with The John Cage Trust to present a live remote br...

John Cage's How to Get Started: Apr 08, 2016: 7pm - 9:30 pm

We are please to present a special live broadcast of John Cage's "How to Get Started," presented by Bard College, the John Cage Trust, and Slought Foundation; featuring performances by Pauline Olivero...

John Cage Diaries: Jul 23, 2015: 12:05 am - 6am

Diary: How To Improve The World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) (1991) listenDiary, Part 1 (49:11) listenDiary, Part 2 (46:03) listenDiary, Part 3 (43:33) listenDiary, Part 4 (39:55) listenDiary,...