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24:33 — Listen on Demand

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


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

4:00PM—5:00PM
The Magic of Four

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

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


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


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

 

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

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


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


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


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


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


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


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.

 

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