The ILLUMINATIONs Series

ILLUMINATIONs 1, Panel: “John Cage and His Legacy”, with Laura Kuhn, Executive Director of the John Cage Trust; Brian Brandt, proprietor of Mode Records; and Don Gillespie, his editor at publisher C.F. Peters Corporation, moderated by Roger Reynolds
[Corcoran Gallery of Art, Frances and Armand Hammer Auditorium, Tuesday, September 4, at 6:45 PM]

ILLUMINATIONs 2, Lecture: “Anarchic Harmony: John Cage’s Paradoxical Wager?” by Joan Retallack, author of MUSICAGE, CAGE MUSES ON WORDS, ART, MUSIC: John Cage in Conversation with Joan Retallack
ABSTRACT

[La Maison Française, Embassy of France in Washington, DC, Wednesday, September 5, 2012, at 6:00 PM]

ILLUMINATIONs 3, Lecture: "Organic Structure in John Cage’s Early Percussion Music" by Thomas DeLio, author of the book The Amores of John Cage

ABSTRACT
[American University, College of Arts and Sciences' Katzen Arts Center, Abramson Family Recital Hall, Friday, September 7, 2012 ,at 4:00 PM]

ILLUMINATIONs 4, Lecture: "Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in John Cage's Watercolors" by Ray Kass – Professor Emeritus of Art at Virginia Tech, author of THE SIGHT OF SILENCE: John Cage’s Complete Watercolors
ABSTRACT
[The Kreeger Museum, Saturday, September 8, 2012, at 12:30 PM]



ILLUMINATIONs 5, Intermedia Lecture Event: "PASSAGE 7: John Cage" – incidents, texts, conversations, and music by Roger Reynolds, with guest pianist Jenny Lin
ABSTRACT
[National Gallery of Art, East Building Auditorium, Sunday, September 9, 2012, from 2:00 - 2:45 PM]



ILLUMINATIONs 6, Lecture: “SHARED FIELDS OF CREATIVE IDEAS in the Cunningham Dance Co. milieu” by Gordon Mumma, Composer and longtime musician with the Cunningham Company
ABSTRACT
[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Sunday, September 9, 2012, at 3:30 PM]
Followed immediately by ILLUMINATIONs 7

ILLUMINATIONs 7, Panel: A summary of the week’s events, the subject of Cage’s legacy, contemporary music in Washington, DC, with Gordon Mumma and Roger Reynolds, with Katherine Markoski moderating. Q & A
[Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Sunday, September 9, 2012, at 4:45 PM]