The ILLUMINATIONs Speakers



Brian Brandt – Mode Records
ILLUMINATIONs 1, Panel: "John Cage and His Legacy", with Laura Kuhn, Brian Brandt, Don Gillespie, moderated by Roger Reynolds
TUESDAY, September 4, 2012 – Corcoran Gallery of Art, 6:45 PM


Thomas DeLio – Composer and Professor of Music at University of Maryland, College Park
ILLUMINATIONs 3, Lecture: "Organic Structure in John Cage’s Early Percussion Music" by Thomas DeLio, author of The Amores of John Cage
FRIDAY, September 7, 2012 – American University, College of Arts and Sciences' Katzen Arts Center,   4:00 PM


Don Gillespie – C.F. Peters Corporation
ILLUMINATIONs 1, Panel: "John Cage and His Legacy", with Laura Kuhn, Brian Brandt, Don Gillespie, moderated by Roger Reynolds
TUESDAY, September 4, 2012 – Venue to be Determined, 6:45 PM


Ray Kass – Watercolor Artist
ILLUMINATIONs 4, Lecture: "Choice, Chance, and Circumstance in John Cage's Watercolors" by Ray Kass, author of THE SIGHT OF SILENCE: John Cage's Complete Watercolors, followed by a light reception at 1:30
SATURDAY, September 8, 2012 – The Kreeger Museum, 12:30 PM


Laura Kuhn – Executive Director, the John Cage Trust
ILLUMINATIONs 1, Panel: "John Cage and His Legacy", with Laura Kuhn, Brian Brandt, Don Gillespie, moderated by Roger Reynolds
TUESDAY, September 4, 2012 – Corcoran Gallery of Art, Meyer Auditorium, 6:45 PM


Gordon Mumma – Composer and Professor Emeritus, University of California, Santa Cruz
ILLUMINATIONs 6, Lecture: “SHARED FIELDS OF CREATIVE IDEAS in the Cunningham Dance Co. milieu” by Gordon Mumma
SUNDAY, September 9, 2012 – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 3:30 PM  

[also panelist in ILLUMINATIONs 7]


Joan Retallack – John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Professor of Humanities at Bard College
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

WEDNESDAY, September 5, 2012 – La Maison Française, Embassy of France in Washington, DC, 6:00 PM


Roger Reynolds – Composer and University Professor, University of California, San Diego, and Artist in Residence at the University of California, Washington Center
ILLUMINATIONs 5, Lecture Event: "PASSAGE 7: John Cage", with guest pianist Jenny Lin
SUNDAY, September 9, 2012 National Gallery of Art, East Bldg. Auditorium, from 2:00 PM - 2:45 PM  
[also moderator for ILLUMINATIONs 1, and panelist in ILLUMINATIONs 7]