Program 790: John Cage in Conversation with Morton Feldman
KALW Broadcast Date: June 23, 2024 | Host: Joseph Bohigian
This program features a series of archival rebroadcasts of the composers John Cage and Morton Feldman in conversation. Cage and Feldman recorded four open-ended discussions at the studios of radio station WBAI in New York. These meetings spanned six months between July 1966 and January 1967 and were produced as five “Radio Happenings.” These conversations between two old friends, relaxed, smoking, and throwing out ideas, are full of laughter and long ponderous silences. They form an incredible historical record of their concerns and preoccupation with making music, art, society, and politics of the moment.
