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Hosted by WNYC's Helga Davis

August 20, 2007 — Join us for 24:33, as WNYC's weekend overnight host Helga Davis guides us through 24 hours and 33 minutes of John Cage's recorded music, plus rare archival audio of interviews and live performances.

Wednesday, September 5th, 2007

12:00PM—1:00PM
Cage's Gift: An Unprepared World Meets the Prepared Piano

Americathon at Merkin Hall (Feb 1983): WNYC Mesostic.
WNYC's New Sounds (May 2000): Various recordings of the seminal "Sonatas and Interludes."

1:00PM—2:00PM
Cage unCaged: A Cross-section of his Output

"In a Landscape"
"Suite for Toy Piano" (solo and orchestral versions)
WNYC Archives: Summerstage (July 1992): Joan La Barbara sings "A Flower"
"Indeterminacy": Excerpt (John Cage/David Tudor)
John Cage performs "Dance" at the prepared piano.
"Jazz Study"

2:00PM—3:00PM
1992: The Final Moments

WNYC's Around New York (July 1992): John Schaefer interviews John Cage and pianist Michael Torre.
WNYC Archives: Summerstage (July 1992): Joan La Barbara sings "Forever and Sunsmell"; "The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs," and "Nowth upon Nacht"

3:00PM—4:00PM
Noise vs. Sound

"She is Asleep"
The MTT Files: Noise vs. Sound and the Legacy of John Cage
"First Construction in Metal"
Wall-to-Wall John Cage at Symphony Space (March 1982): "Third Construction"
"Second Construction"
"Amores"

4:00PM—5:00PM
The Magic of Four

"Four²" (version 1) for vocal ensemble
"Four⁵" for saxophone ensemble
"Four³" for pianos, rainsticks, and violin/oscillator
"Four Solos" for vocal ensemble

5:00PM—6:00PM
Operation Opera: John Cage and Leonard Lopate

New York & Company (July 1988): Leonard Lopate talks with John Cage.

6:00PM—7:00PM
Kaleidoscopic Cage: Short Works

7:00PM—8:00PM
Meet the Composer

Tim Page interviews John Cage in this WNYC-produced series

8:00PM—9:00PM
cAgeless Classics, Part One

"Living Room Music"
Conductor Robert Spano discusses John Cage
"Double Music"
"Imaginary Landscape No. 2"
WNYC Archives: Summerstage (July 1992): Joan La Barbara sings "A Flower"
"Dream"
"Tossed as it is Untroubled (Meditation)"
"The Perilous Night"
Merce Cunningham remembers John Cage

9:00PM—10:00PM
cAgeless Classics, Part Two

WNYC's New Sounds Live (November 1991): Benefit Concert for EAR Magazine with John Cage: "Haikus"
WNYC Archives: Summerstage (July 1992): Joan La Barbara sings "Sonnekus"
Joan La Barbara discusses John Cage
Margaret Leng Tan discusses John Cage
Meredith Monk discusses John Cage
"A Chant with Claps"
WNYC Archives: Arditti String Quartet at the Kaufman Cultural Center (February 1992): "6 Short Inventions for Seven Instruments" and "String Quartet in Four Parts"

10:00PM—10:45PM
cAgeless Classics, Part Three

10:45PM—12:00MID
The Radical Simplicity of John Cage

New Sounds (Sept 2005): "The Radical Simplicity of John Cage" (featuring "In a Landscape" and "Dream")
"Litany for the Whale": Excerpt

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

12:00AM—2:20AM†
Expansion of the Sound Universe

"Suite for Toy Piano"
Back-to-back versions of "Credo in Us," from Wall-to-Wall John Cage at Symphony Space (March 1982) and from the WNYC Archives: Americathon at Merkin Hall (Feb 1983)
"Williams Mix"
"Imaginary Landscape No. 1"
"Music for Carillon No. 1"
"Europera 4"
"Hymns and Variations"
Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra

2:20AM—3:40AM†
Roaratorio and James Joyce

"Laughtears: Conversations on Roaratorio" (Excerpt) (Klaus Schöning interviews John Cage)
"Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegan's Wake: Part 1"
"Laughtears: Conversations on Roaratorio" (Conclusion)
"Writing For The Second Time Through Finnegans Wake" (Excerpt)

3:40AM—5:00AM†
The Unearthed John Cage Concerts: Strings, Conch Shells and Fire

WNYC Archives: Rockland Country Performance with John Cage (ca. 1955): 34'46.776"
Wall-to-Wall John Cage at Symphony Space(March 1982): Inlets
"Litany for the Whale": Excerpt

5:00AM—6:00AM
Chamber Ensemblance

6:00AM—7:00AM
Prepared Piano Revisited and John Cage Speaks

WNYC's Soundcheck (July 2002): : Prepared Piano with veteran Cage proponent Margaret Leng Tan
"Composition in Retrospect," read by John Cage
"Living Room Music"

7:00AM—8:00AM
The Other MusiCircuses

"Apartment House 1776" (mixed-media event)
Reprise of back-to-back versions of "Credo in Us," from Wall-to-Wall John Cage at Symphony Space (March 1982) and from the WNYC Archives: Americathon at Merkin Hall (Feb 1983)

8:00AM—9:10AM
The Voice of John Cage

John Cage and Morton Feldman in Conversation (1966-1967 on WBAI Radio in New York)
"Series re Morris Graves" with John Cage, speaker (Introduction and Excerpt)
"Indeterminacy": Excerpt (John Cage/David Tudor)
Cologne/New York New Music/Neue Musik Marathon with John Schaefer (1989 at The Kitchen): "What You Say..." (two excerpts, with John Cage)

9:10AM—9:50AM
Playful Moments of Collage and Caprice

WNYC Archives: Summerstage (July 1992): reprise of Joan La Barbara singing "Sonnekus"
"Daughters of the Lonesome Isle"
"Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard"

9:50AM—11:00AM
In Search of Lost Sounds: John Cage Remembered

WNYC's Soundcheck (Sept 2002): "Remembering John Cage"
"Fads and Fancies in the Academy"
"The Perilous Night"

11:00AM—11:50PM
The Final Performance

WNYC Archives: WNYC Summerstage (July 1992): Joan La Barbara sings; John Cage's last public performance in "Four6"
"The City Wears a Slouch Hat": Excerpt

11:50AM—12:33PM
Cage Clipped: The Many Faces of the Class Clown and Great Patriarch

† simulcast on 93.9FM

24:33 Production Credits
Executive Producer: Limor Tomer
Producer: Alex Ambrose
Host: Helga Davis
Web Producer: Brad Cresswell
Additional Audio Editing: Eileen Delahunty
Special thanks to George Preston, Rex Doane, Andy Lanset, Laura Kuhn and the John Cage Trust, and Mode Records.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.