How is 4′33″ thought of today? Kyle Gann, a composer who once wrote a book on the piece, noted that Cage's own mother once asked, "Don't you think that John has gone too far this time?" ...

“I,” says Composer John Cage, “am a hunter.” Last week White Hunter Cage’s latest quarry was on display at Manhattan’s avant-garde off-Broadway theater, Circle in the Square.

John Cage, the avant-garde composer, was also a passionate mushroom forager. In his 1954 essay “Music Lovers’ Field Companion,” he wrote about his habit of going into the woods and ...

WHO: Several performers will be featured including: Robert Ashley, contemporary American composer, best known for his operas and other theatrical works. David Behrman, composer and producer of ...