"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 youd like to propose a guest or a topic for a future program, write directly to Laura at lkuhn@johncage.org.
Laura Kuhn talks with Adam Tendler, an internationally recognized interpreter of living, modern, and classical composers. Adam is a pioneer of DIY culture in concert music, and at age 23 he performed solo recitals in all 50 United States as part of a grassroots tour he called America 88x50, which became the title and subject of his memoir, 88x50, a Kirkus Indie Book of the Month and a Lambda Literary Award nominee. Adam is an active presence in contemporary and classical music alike as a soloist, recording artist, speaker, and educator. He is also a leading John Cage interpreter and collaborates with the John Cage Trust and Edition Peters, Cages long-time music publisher, in presenting Cages work internationally. He recently released the album Robert Palmer: Piano Music on New World Records and published his second book, tidepools.
Kuhn and Tendler speak about Kuhns latest book, Love, Icebox: Letters from John Cage to Merce Cunningham (John Cage Trust, 2019), all about love and in celebration of Valentines Day.
The late Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman once described his "Begin Again: A Biography of John Cage" (Knopf, 2012) as the hardest book hed ever written. This was because, as he put it, pick up any rock and theres John Cage! Indeed, Cage was not only a world-renowned composer, numbering among his compositions the still notoriously tacet 433, but a ground-breaking poet, a philosopher, a chess master who studied with Marcel Duchamp, a macrobiotic chef, a devotee of Zen Buddhism, a prolific visual artist, and an avid and pioneering mycologist. He was also life partner to the celebrated American choreographer, Merce Cunningham, for nearly half a century, and thus well known in the world of modern dance. Episode 075. EVERGREEN.
Adam Tendler
Weekly program featuring conversations between Laura Kuhn, Director of the John Cage Trust, and Cage experts and enthusiasts from around the world.
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June 30, 2022
Produced for Wave Farm in the Hudson Valley in New York.
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