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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 commission from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, where Lazar was a founding curator and where it was first seen in 1993, one year after Cage’s death. Last week’s program focused on Cage’s interest in the “circus” as a compositional strategy, which expressed itself in works that cross some 25 years. We listened to a lengthy excerpt from his first Musicircus (1968), after which Kuhn then spoke about the concept of the circus as applied to “Rolywholyover,” closing with Klaus Schöning’s beautiful “just to rolywholyover: in memoriam john cage,” produced for MoCA’s The Territory of Art radio series.

Tonight, Laura Kuhn and Julie Lazar speak a bit more about “Rolywholyover   A Circus,” now nearly 30 years after its creation, as well as about the lingering influence that Cage has had on their respective lives.