A John Cage Compendium: Chronology 1992- (Last modified 1 May 2026)

 

1992. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Carnegie Institute. Exhibition of his visual works.

8-23 January (or earlier) 1992. San Francisco, California, Crown Point Press. Made HV2, Variations III and Without Horizon (Revill 1992, 299).

January-February. New York. Composed Eighty.

18 January-8 March 1992. Berlin, Inventionen; Irvine Arditti performed Freeman Etudes I-XXXII (21 January, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Postdamer Straße 33, Otto-Braun-Saal); Les Percussions de Strasbourg performed But What about the Noise of Crumpling Paper Which He Used to Do in order to Paint the Series of "Papiers froissés" or Tearing up Paper to Make "Papiers déchirés"? Arp Was Stimulated by Water (Sea, Lake, and Flowing Waters like Rivers), Forests., First Construction (in Metal), Edgard Varèse, Ionisation (25 January, Akademie der Künste, Hanseatenweg 10); Kroumata-Ensemble performed Third Construction and music by Åke Parmerud, Lars Ekström, and Anders Blomqvist (28 January, Akademie der Künste); Arditti String Quartet performed Music for _ (presented as Music for Four), String Quartet in Four Parts and Four (29 January, Kammersaal der Philharmonie, Matthäikirchstraße 1); Herbert Henck performed from Music for Piano 1, Music for Piano 2, Music for Piano 3, Music for Piano 4-19, Music for Piano 20, Music for Piano 21-36/37-52, Music for Piano 53-68, and Music for Piano 69-84 (14 February, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Otto-Braun-Saal); Cage not in attendance (Naujocks 1992).

18 January-15 March 1992. Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Zufall als Prinzip (exhibition): installation, Roaratorio, an Irish Circus on Finnegans Wake (Nabakowski 1992; Schädler 1992a; Schmidt, F. 1992).

17 January 1992. San Francisco, California, Old First Presbyterian Church. Attended piano recital by Tom Schultz performing early prepared piano pieces, One, Swinging; interviewed by Jerry Young (Young, J. 1992).

18 January 1992, Japan. Mayumi Miyata gave first performance of One⁹; presumably Cage was not in attendance.

19 January 1992 (morning). Cologne, Kölner Philharmonie (Bischofsgartenstrasse). ‘Mauricio Kagel: Homme: Age 60’, Michael Niesemann, English horn; John Corbett, Hans Deinzer, clarinets; Michael Riessler, bass clarinet; Manos Tsangaris, timpani, gave first performance of Five²; Cage not in attendance.

23-25 January 1992. Seattle, Washington, Cornish College of the Arts (710 East Roy Street), Poncho Concert Hall, Cornish Series. Joint residency with Lou Harrison; three concerts, The Music of John Cage and Lou Harrison, performed by Cornish faculty and guest artists; Gamelan Pacifica performed Haikai (1986) (24 January, evening).

24 January-14 February 1992. New York, Juilliard School of Music, Library. Exhibition of Cage’s works in honor of his 80th birthday, conjunction with the Focus! 92 Festival (Gottlieb, J. 1992).

January 1992. Berkeley, California: visited.

27-31 January 1992. Palo Alto, California, Stanford University, Humanities Center in conjunction with the Departments of Art, Drama, English, and Music, John Cage at Stanford: Here Comes Everybody, presented by Continuing Studies. Attended as Marta Sutton Weeks distinguished Visitor; with Kathan Brown, presented informal talks at reception (27 January, Cummings Art Building Foyer, 5-7 p.m., including dance performance of 27'10.554" for a Percussionist, with Gordon Mumma, Heather Leslie Sloan, and Wendy Rogers) for the exhibition of his prints and other works (10 December 1991-9 February 1992, Stanford Art Gallery); panel discussion, The Making of Americans, with Norman O. Brown, Marjorie Perloff, Caroline A. Jones, and Jann Pasler, moderated by Jerzy Kutnik (28 January, Braun Music Center, Campbell Hall, afternoon); gave first performance of Overpopulation and Art [in two parts] (28 and 30 January, Campbell Hall, late afternoon); panel discussion, Poethics, with Gerald Burns, Katherine Hayles, Daniel Herwitz, and Joan Retallack (29 January, afternoon, Campbell Hall); performed Muoyce as part of performance of Musicircus (29 January, evening, Braun Music Center); open panel discussion (30 January, afternoon, Campbell Hall); Janos Négyesy performed One⁶ with sculpture by Mineko Grimmer; Alan Johnson, lighting (30 January, evening, Little Theatre, Memorial Auditorium [two performances]); performed James Joyce, Marcel Duchamp, Erik Satie: An Alphabet at concert, Performing Cage/John Cage Performing, with his music by the Stanford Symphony Orchestra, Robert Black, conductor; San Francisco Contemporary Players; Judith Bettina, David Abel, and Julie Steinberg (31 January, evening, Dinkelspiel Auditorium) (Baker, K. 1992; Dworkin, A. 1992; Fine 1992; Jones, Caroline A. 1993; Junkerman 1993; Junkerman 1994; Kosman 1992; Milliken 1992; Négyesy/Hajdu 2007; Perloff, M. and Junkerman 1994b; Revill 1992, 299; Seawell 1992).

30 January 1992. Frankfurt am Main, Städel, Nazarenersaal. Hildegard Kleeb, piano; Roland Dahinden, trombone gave first performance of Two⁵; concert also featured compositions by Peter Ablinger and by Hildegard Kleeb and Ronald Dahinden; Cage not in attendance (Nicol 1992; Olschewski 1992; Thaler 1992a).

31 January-1 February 1992. Austin, Texas, University of Texas, College of Fine Arts, Bass Concert Hall. Residency of Merce Cunningham Dance Company. Performed Loosestrife, Change of Address (first performance), Neighbors (31 January); Beach Birds, Change of Address, Trackers (1 February); Cage did not participate (Young, J. 1992).

2 February 1992. Back in New York.

February 1992. New York. Composed Sixty-eight.

8 February-19 April 1992. Chicago, Illinois, Museum of Contemporary Art. Exhibition “John Cage: Scores from the Early 1950s,” prepared by Peter Gena (Gena 1992a).

13-15 February 1992. Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Louisiana State University, School of Music, 47th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music (13-22 February), held in conjunction with the Sonneck Society for American Music’s Eighteenth Annual Conference (13-16 February): visited as guest composer; performed The First Meeting of the Satie Society and Overpopulation and Art and question period (13 February, afternoon, School of Music, Recital Hall); reception for Cage afterwards (School of Music Faculty Lounge); concert by LSU Orchestra with music by Arlen Speights, Samuel Barber, Howard Hanson (13 February, evening, Union Theater); received Honorary Member Award of 1992 from the Sonneck Society for American Music from the Society’s President Deane Root; his speech was written by Vivian Perlis (15 February); concert with Credo in Us, Third Construction, Three Pieces for Flute Duet, Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra by LSU Percussion Ensemble, John Raush, director, and LSU Symphony Orchestra, Timothy Muffitt, conductor (15 February, evening, Union Theater); concert by the LSU Electro-Acoustic Music Studios, included Williams Mix (22 February, evening, Recitall Hall); interviewed by Cynthia V. Campbell previously (Campbell, Cynthia V. 1992; Carroll, J. 1992; Coco 1992; Sonneck Society Newsletter 1992).

20 February 1992. New York. Completed One¹⁰.

24 February 1992. Amsterdam, De IJsbreker. In shared program with music by Ivo van Emmerik, Ives Ensemble (Rik Andriessen, flute; Esther Probst, oboe; Hans Petra, clarinet; Coen van ’t Hof, trombone; Arnold Marinissen, percussion; John Snijders, piano; Josje ter Haar, Franc Polman, violins; Susanne van Els, viola; Job ter Haar, violoncello) gave first performance of Ten; Cage not in attendance (Hazendonk 1992a; Vermeulen 1992a; Voermans 1992c).

February-June 1992. New York. Composed One¹².

March 1992. New York. Completed Four⁶ and composed Fifty-Eight and Seventy-Four.

2-7 March 1992. Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University and Chicago, Illinois, Arts Club, John Cage Now, organized by Northwestern University School of Music in affiliation with the Arts Club of Chicago, co-ordinated by Deborah Campana. Visited and attended performances of his works; performed Composition in Retrospect (2 March, Chicago, Illinois, Arts Club); performed Sports (text) (4 March, Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University, Lutkin Hall); performed (5 March, Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall); Through the Night: An Homage to John Cage, multimedia work by Northwestern University’s Center for the Study of Education and the Musical Experience (6-7 March); Michael Bach performed One⁸ with 108 (6 March); performances by the Arditti Quartet; Yvar Mikhashoff (Europera 5); William Brooks (Song Books); lecture by Charles Hamm; interviewed by John Corbett (Cage/Corbett 1992; Cage/Retallack 1996, 264; Campana 1993; Dura 1994; Hamm 1995, 381; Sweet 1992; Wierzbicki 1992).

17-29 March 1992. New York, City Center (131 West 55th Street), Reach Beyond Modern, performances of Merce Cunningham Dance Company: Neighbors, Beach Birds, Trackers (17 March); Exchange, Native Green, Loosestrife (18 March); Neighbors, Channels/Inserts, Loosestrife (19 March); August Pace, Beach Birds, Trackers (20 March); Neighbors, Inventions, August Pace (21 March, matinee); Inventions, Channels/Inserts, Loosestrife (21 March, evening); Exchange, Beach Birds, August Pace (22 March, matinee); Inventions, Change of Address, Trackers (23 March); Channels/Inserts, Change of Address, Loosestrife (25 March); Change of Address, Beach Birds, Trackers (26 March); Channels/Inserts, Native Green, Loosestrife (27 March); Beach Birds, Change of Address, August Pace (28 March, matinee); Beach Birds, Change of Address, Loosestrife (28 March, evening); Beach Birds, Change of Address, Trackers (29 March, matinee); presumably Cage did not participate.

Spring 1992. New York, Asia Society. Mayumi Miyata (shô) and Midori Takada (conch shells) presumably gave first performance of Two³.

21-22 March 1992. Munich, Bayerischer Rundfunk (Hopfenstraße), co-organized by Bayerischer Rundfunk, musica viva, Kulturreferat, Jugendkulturwerk, Jeunesses Musicales, and Neue Musik München: video presentations: Helms, Birdcage; Lohner, John Cage in Berlin; Defilla What You Say… (21 March, 6 pm, Studio 2); Xsemble München (Stefan Blum, Markus Steckeler, Harald Lillmeyer, Wulf Schaeffer, Frank Reinecke) (percussion) Barton Weber (piano), Ensemble für Percussive Kunst (Cornelius Hirsch, Werner Hofmeister, Dieter Poll) (percussion), Nicolaus Richter de Vroe (conductor), performed Credo in Us, Imaginary Landscape No. 1, Imaginary Landscape No. 2, Imaginary Landscape No. 3, Imaginary Landscape No. 4, Imaginary Landscape No. 5, Quartet, Water Walk (21 March, 8 pm, Studio 2); Anna Clementi (voice) and Werner Hofmeister (piano) performed The Wondeful Widow of Eighteen Springs and Nowth upon Nacht; Dieter Schnebel gave lecture, “Der fremde Cage”; Peter Sadlo performed c Ȼomposed Improvisation for snare drum (22 March, 11 am, Studio 2); and “audiovisual exhibition’ (Nauck 1992).

April 1992. New York. Composed Two⁶.

16 April 1992. New York, Greenwich House, Rare Cage. Essential Music (Joseph Kubera, Margaret Leng Tan, Charles Wood; John Kennedy, director) performed Greek Ode and The Preacher (sung by Thomas Buckner), Four Dances, Sounds of Venice, Ophelia; Cage’s attendance uncertain (Gann 1992b).

25 April 1992 (afternoon). Witten, Städtischer Saalbau, Theatersaal, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik (24-26 April). In program devoted to Stefan Wolpe, David Smeyers (soprano saxophone), Marcus Weiss (alto saxophone), and Christian Dierstein, Thomas Oesterdieckhoff, and Seth Josel (percussion) gave first performance of Five⁴; Cage not in attendance (Baucke 1992b; Linde 1992a; Stenger 1992c).

May 1992. New York. Commissioned by the City of Gütersloh, composed Thirteen for the Ensemble 13.

May 1992. Bremen, Pro Musica Nova, Schwerpunkt Cage; Cage not in attendance (Roelcke 1992).

7 May 1992 (evening). San Francisco, California, Herbst Theatre (Veterans Building, Van Ness Avenue at McAllister), John Cage 80th Birthday Celebration. San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Stephen L. Mosko, director, with Joan La Barbara (soprano), performed A Flower, Mirakus2, Music for Fourteen, Quartets I-VIII (24 Instruments); Cage in attendance; discussion with Stephen L. Mosko and question period preceding the concert (Papageorge 1992; Tucker, M. 1992; Ulrich, A. 1992).

2-16 May 1992. San Francisco, California, Composers Anonymous Spring Concert. Possibly attended as guest composer.

14 May-29 June 1992. Prague, John Cage: Mezinárodní Setkání Praha ’92. Symposium on Cage, with Milan Adamčiak, Paul van Emmerik, Martin Erdmann, Jaroslav Št’astný, Jiří Valoch and András Wilheim participating (15 May, Maďarské Kulturní Středisko, Rytířská 25-27, 10 am-5 pm); Pražké Jaro ’92, Hommage à John Cage: concert by Amadinda Percussion Group (15 May, Valdštejnský Palac, 8 pm) (Št’astný 2012).

21 and 23 May 1992. New York. Interviewed by Thomas S. Hines (Hines 1994).

Prior to 18 June 1992. Wrote [Untitled] (mesostic on “Bratislava”) and [Untitled] (mesostic on “Večery Novej Hudby”).

18-19 June 1992 (arrival Vienna 18 June, morning). Bratislava, Večery Novej Hudby = Evenings of New Music III (13-19 June), Koncertná sieň Slovenskej filharmónie, Reduta and other locations. Accompanied by Laura Kuhn; gave two press conferences, one at Slovak Radio; attended exhibition of his scores, ‘John Cage 80’ (Slovenská Národná Galéria), afternoon and evening concerts (18 June); performed Composition in Retrospect (19 June, Slovenská Národna Galéria = Slovak National Gallery); interviewed by Viera Polakovičová and Daniel Matej; performances by the VENI Ensemble, Agon, Prague Percussion Group, John Tilbury, Bernhard Wambach, András Wilheim, Ulrike Brand and Martin Erdmann, who also gave a workshop; Cage traveled via Vienna to Florence (19 June, afternoon) (Adamčiak 1992; Adamčiak/Murin 1992; Beneš et al./Smetanová 1992; Bokes 1992; Cage/Polakovičová and Matej 1992; Cseres 1992; Matej 1992a; Matej 1992b; Smetanová 1992; Št’astný 2007; Št’astný 2012; Št’astný 2013).

19 June 1992. The Hague, Dr. Anton Philipszaal, Slagwerkfestival Den Haag: Percussion Group The Hague (Niels van Hoorn, Murk Jiskoot, Bouwe de Jong, Arnold Marinissen, Emiel Matthijsse, Ger de Zeeuw) gave first performance of Six; Cage not in attendance (Vermeulen 1992b; Voermans 1992b).

19-27 June 1992. Perugia and Pieve Caina, Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea, John Cage e l’Europa (22-26 June). Attended and rehearsed; also attended concert in Florence (21 June); gave first performance of One¹²; Michael Bach performed One⁸ (22 June, Palazzo dei Priori, Sala dei Notari, recorded Galerie Rupert Walser); gave press conference (23 June, Palazzo dei Priori, Sala del Grifo e del Leone); Compositori e Strumentisti dei Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea (including Giorgio Battistelli, Jean-Luc Darbellay, Heinz-Klaus Metzger, Rainer Riehn, András Wilheim, Hans Wüthrich-Mathez) performed Music Walk as well as Mauricio Kagel, from Rrrrrrr (two versions, at least one of which multiple-piano version, 23 June, Palazzo dei Priori, Sala dei Notari); lecture by Heinz-Klaus Metzger (24 June, afternoon, Università per Stranieri, Sala Goldoniana); Mayumi Miyata, shō, and Isao Nakamura, percussion, gave first complete performance of Two³ (24 June, evening, Tempio di San Michele Arcangelo); Marianne Schroeder performed Etudes Australes (complete, 25 June, evening, Palazzo dei Priori, Sala dei Notari); András Wilheim performed In a Landscape, The Perilous Night, Suite for Toy Piano, Two Pastorales; International Ensemble of the Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea, Rainer Riehn, director, performed Seven² and Mauricio Kagel, Sonant (26 June, evening, Università per Stranieri) (Bonomo 1993; Brand and Fratteggiani Bianchi 1993; Cage 1993dD; Cage/Anonymous 1993b; Corriere della Sera 1992; Metzger, H.-K. 1993; Ketoff 1992; Muggler 1992a; Muggler 1992b; Polaczek 1992; Raybaud 1995).

22 June 1992. Aalst, Cultuurcentrum De Werf (Molenstraat 51). Johan Huys, Elpidia Giardina, Annette Sachs, Frank Agsteribbe, Piotr Lachert, Yves Senden and the Logos Ensemble performed HPSCHD.

28 June 1992. Innsbruck. Presumably attended piano recital by Ursula Kneihs; 29 June traveled home via Munich.

28 June 1992. Middelburg, Netherlands, Kloveniersdoelen, Festival Nieuwe Muziek (25 June-18 July). James Fulkerson, trombone; Mondriaan Kwartet: Jan-Erik van Regteren Altena, Edwin Blankenstijn, violins; Annette Bergman, viola; Eduard van Regteren Altena, violoncello, gave first performance of Five³; Cage not in attendance.

Prior to 2 July 1992. New York. Interviewed by Allan Kozinn (Kozinn 1992d).

3-4 July 1992. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (14 West 54th Street), Summergarden 1992 John Cage Celebration began [ten-week series of Friday and Saturnay evening concerts] (3 July-29 August), performed by students of the Juilliard School of Music directed by Paul Zukofsky. Beth Albert, Matt Basset, Paul Hostetter, Ben Ramirez performed Four⁴ (presumably first performance).

Prior to 9 July 1992. New York. Interviewed by Matthew Flamm (Flamm 1992).

10-11 July 1992. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (14 West 54th Street), Summergarden 1992 John Cage Celebration. Recited from Empty Words Part IV (first half on 10 July, second half on 11 July) (Berswordt-Wallrabe 1992; Fetterman 1996a, 224; Flamm 1992).

17-18 July 1992. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (14 West 54th Street), Summergarden 1992 John Cage Celebration. Michael Bach performed One⁸; Michael Torre performed ASLSP.

23 July 1992. New York, Central Park, Summerstage. With Joan La Barbara (voice, percussion), Leonard Stein (piano, whistles, voice, percussion) and William Winant (percussion), gave first performance of Four⁶ (voice and ‘shocking things’); it was his last public performance (Fetterman 1996a, 225).

24-25 July 1992. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (14 West 54th Street), Summergarden 1992 John Cage Celebration. Cheryl Marshall performed Mirakus² and Selkus²; Michael Torre and Pedja Muzijevic performed Two²; Cheryl Marshall and Michael Torre performed Sonnekus², Eight Whiskus, The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs, and Nowth Upon Nacht.

31 July-1 August 1992. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (14 West 54th Street), Summergarden 1992 John Cage Celebration. Yvar Mikhashoff (piano), Cheryl Marshall and Lisa Willson (voices), Melanie Monios (Victrola), Aaron Winslow (sound), Kris Randall (lights), and Andrew Culver (director) performed Europera 5 (Swed 1992a).

7-8 August 1992. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (14 West 54th Street), Summergarden 1992 John Cage Celebration. Benjamin Herrington (trombone) and Eric Ewazen (piano) performed Two⁵; Nick Eanet and Eric Grossman (violins), Richard Brice (viola), and Wendy Sutter (violoncello) performed Four; Cage in attendance (at one evening or both).

Prior to 12 August 1992. Interviewed by Detlev Reinert and by Geoff Smith and Nicola Walker-Smith (Cage/Reinert 1992; Cage/Smith, Ge. and N.W. Smith 1993).

12 August 1992. New York, Saint Vincent’s Hospital. Died around 2:40 pm after suffering a massive cerebral hemorrhage at home (11 August, late afternoon). The stroke had left him unconscious, and he died without having regained consciousness. His death was announced by hospital spokeswoman Valerie Gundersen (obituaries: ABC 1992; Aharonián 1993; Algemeen Dagblad 1992; American Organist 1992; Amersfoortse Courant 1992; Amirkhanian et al. 1993; Atlanta Journal 1992; Austin, W.W. 1994; B. 1992; Bach, H.E. 1992a; Barden, Kreidler and Schüttler/Naujocks 2012; Barkin 1993; Barlow, J. 1993; Bärtschi 1992; Berio 1992; Berio et al. 1993; Beyer, A. 1992-1993; Blumenstein 1992; Boretz 1993; Bosseur, J.-Y. 1992a; Bruce 1993; Brumange and Rutten 1992; Bussotti 1992; Campana 1993; Caux 1992; Clavier 1992; Clements, A. 1992; Cogan 1993; Cole 1992; Cole and Harris 1992; Computer Music Journal 1992; Crescendo & Jazz Music 1992-1993; Daily Telegraph 1992; Darter 1992; De Visscher 1992a; Dobnik 1992a; Dobnik 1992b; Donau-Kurier 1992; Doucelin 1992; Driver 1992; Driver et al. 1992; Dyer, R. 1992; Economist 1992; Ekbom 1992; Elliott, S. 1992; Erdmann 1995b; Fancelli 1992; Fayenz 1992; Feuchtner 1992a; Folkart 1992; Fong 1992; G. Fer. 1992; Gann 1992d; Gann 1992e; Gazet van Antwerpen 1992; Gena 1992b; Gilbert, P. 1993; Goertz 1992; Gosselin 1992; Gramophone 1992; Gratzer 1992b; Haase 1992; Have 1992; Helguera 1992; High Performance 1992; Hilberg 1992; Hilst 1992; Hiu 1992; Hmn and R.G. 1992; Hoffmann, J. J. 1993; Hoffmann, S. 1992; Holland 1992; Hufner 2012; Hughes, E.D. 1993; Husarik 1992; Jacoby 1992; Jöckle 1992; Johnson, G. 1992; Jungheinrich 1992b; K. A. 1992; Kaprow 1987/1993; Kaprow et al./Zeit 1992; Kennicott 1992; Ketoff 1992a; Keyboard 1992; Klein, E. 1992; Koch, G.R. 1992; Kostelanetz 1992c; Kostelanetz 1993b; Kozinn 1992b; Kozinn 1992c; Kramer, H. 1992; Kuhn, L.D. 1993b; Kuivila 1993; Leblé 1992; Leclerq 1992; Leeuw, G. van der 1992; Lesle 1992b; Lincoff 1992-1993; Marshall 1992; Maue 1993; Metzger, H.-K. 1992a; Metzger, H.-K. 1992c; Meyer, T. 1992; Michel 1992; Mörchen 1992a; Müllmann 1992b; Nagy 1993; Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana 1993; New Yorker 1992; Orchester 1992; Oskamp 1992; Pablo 1992; Parool 1992a; Parool 1992b; Pasi 1992; Passarini 1992; Patterson, D.W. 1993; Pestelli 1992; Petäjä 1992; Pierre-Petit 1992; Polling 1992; Pöllmann 1992; Porter, A. 1992; Pschera 1992; Rasmussen 1992-1993; Räther 1992; Reimers, R. 1992; Reinboud 1992; Reininghaus 1992a; Reininghaus 1992b; Rey 1992; Rockwell 1992; Rosen, M. 2012; Rossum 1992a; Rossum 1992b; Rothstein 1992a; Rothstein 1992b; Ruch Muzyczny 1992; Sabbe 1993; Salzburger Nachrichten 1992; Sanio 1992-1993; Sauerwein 1992; Schaefer, H. 1992; Schibli 1992; Schnebel 1992; Schreiber, W. 1992; Schulz 1992; Shoemaker 1992; Sinkovicz 1992; Sonneck Society Bulletin 1992; Spiegel 1992; Stadeus 1992; Stenger 1992b; Swed 1992a; Swed 1992b; Swed 1993c; Swinkels 1992; Tageszeitung 1992; Tashiro 1994; Telegraaf 1992; Times 1992a; Times 1992b; USA Today 1992; Verdonk 1992; Vidovszky 1992; Wagner, Renate 1992; Walsh 1992; Weber, C. 1992; Weber, M. 1992; Webster 1992; Wesleyan 1993; Westfalenpost 1992; Westfälische Nachrichten 1992; White, M. 1992; Willems 1992; Williams, Jan 2012; Winslow 1993; Winslow 1997; Zimmermann, U. 1992a; Zimmermann, U. 1992a; Zschunke 1992; Zurletti 1992).

14-15 August 1992. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (14 West 54th Street), Summergarden 1992 John Cage Celebration. Yvar Mikhashoff (piano), Cheryl Marshall and Lisa Willson (voices), Melanie Monios (victrola), Aaron Winslow (sound), Kris Randall (lights), and Andrew Culver (director) performed Europera 5 (Oestreich 1992a; Swed 1992a).

21-22 August 1992. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (14 West 54th Street), Summergarden 1992 John Cage Celebration. Yvar Mikhashoff (piano), Cheryl Marshall and Lisa Willson (voices), Melanie Monios (victrola), Aaron Winslow (sound), Kris Randall (lights), and Andrew Culver (director) performed Europera 5 (Horvath 1992; Swed 1992a).

28-29 August 1992. New York, Museum of Modern Art, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden (14 West 54th Street), Summergarden 1992 John Cage Celebration. David Fedele (flute), Derek Floyd (oboe), José Herring-Colon (clarinet), Benjamin Herrington (trombone), Bethn Albert (percussion), Michael Torre (piano), Nick Eanet and Denise Stillwell (violins), Ralph Farris (viola), Wendy Sutter (violoncello) performed Ten (twice) and But What about the Noise of Crumpling Paper Which He Used to Do in order to Paint the Series of "Papiers froissés" or Tearing up Paper to Make "Papiers déchirés"? Arp Was Stimulated by Water (Sea, Lake, and Flowing Waters like Rivers), Forests..

28 August-21 September 1992. Frankfurt am Main, John Cage Anarchic Harmony Frankfurt Feste ’92 (15 August-27 September); Twenty-eight, Twenty-six and Twenty-nine first performed by Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Saarbrücken, Hans Zender, director; same personnel with Helen Schneyer and Nico Castel, also performed Renga with Apartment House 1776 (5 September, Alte Oper, Grosser Saal) (Bomba 1992; Fischer, E.-E. 1992; Hauff 1992a; Hauff 1992b; Jungheinrich 1992a; Langer, R. 1992; Linde 1992b; Löhlein 1992a; Löhlein 1992b; Potter, K. 1992; Ruhr-Nachrichten 1992; Schmidt, J. 1992; Thaler 1992b; Thaler 1992c; Uske 1992; Weber, O. 1992a; Weber, O. 1992b; Wp 1992).

4-5 September 1992. Bratislava, Moyzesova Sieň SF (Vajanského nábrežie 12). Why Cage? Portrait ’80. Lectures by Peter Graham (Jaroslav Št’astný) and Paul van Emmerik (3 pm); concert by VENI Ensemble (5 pm); Morgan O’Hara presented installation, Open Cage; Gene Carl performed Sonatas and Interludes (8 pm) (Št’astný 2012).

10-16 September 1992. Groningen, Muziekcentrum Oosterpoort, Cage-Festival But What about the Noise, organized by Prime. Various concerts, exhibition of visual art organized by Centrum Beeldende Kunst (11 September-1 November) (Beer 1992; Berg, Y. van den 1992; Herruer 1992a; Herruer 1992b; Herruer 1992c; Herruer 1992d; Lakke 1992; Ruijfrok 1992).

19 September 1992. Cologne, Kölner Philharmonie (Bischofsgartenstrasse), Musik der Zeit, John Cage: 80. 103 first performed by the Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Arturo Tamayo, director, with simultaneous first showing of One¹¹ (Bach, H.E. 1992b; Hazendonk 1992b; Krekeler 1992; Mörchen 1992b; Potter, K. 1992; Stenger 1992a; Weber, C. 1992).

20 September-18 October 1992. Wiesbaden, Nassauischer Kunstverein and Galerie Kessel (20 September-1 November). Exhibition, John Cage: Arbeiten auf Papier (Gries 1992; Herborn 1992).

1-11 October 1992. Dresden, 6. Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik, organized by the Dresdner Zentrum für zeitgenössische Musik, partially devoted to Cage. Rundfunksinfonieorchester Saarbrücken, Hans Zender, director, performed Twenty-eight and Twenty-six with Twenty-nine as well as Renga with Apartment House 1776, soloists: Jeanne Lee, Helen Schneyer, Nico Castel, Matoaka Little Eagle, Powhatan Swift Eagle (2 October, Semperoper).

2 October 1992. Athens. Cage Festival with performances by Margaret Leng Tan and Ensemble Musica Negativa (Swed 1993c, 141).

Late 1992. Princeton, New Jersey, Richardson Auditorium, Alexander Hall. The Chamber Symphony of Princeton performed Atlas Eclipticalis in shared program with music by Johann Sebastian Bach, Joan La Barbara and Georges Bizet.

11 October 1992. Graz, Landhaus, Hof, Steirischer Herbst (2-26 October), Musikprotokoll ’92, Österreichischer Rundfunk. Pannonisches Blasorchester Oberschützen, Wim van Zutphen, director, gave first performance of Fifty-Eight (Kager 1992; Krieger, G. 1992).

23-24 October 1992. Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, Lukas Foss conducting, performed Atlas Eclipticalis (Goodman, P. 1992; Ross, A. 1992).

29 October 1992 (evening). New York, Carnegie Hall. The Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, Petr Kotik, conductor, performed Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music (David Tudor) (Goodman, P. 1992; Ross, A. 1992).

1 November 1992 (afternoon). New York, Symphony Space (2537 Broadway at 95th Street). Musicircus performed, presented by Essential Music and Andrew Culver, presented as “Cagemusicircus”; among the participants were Laurie Anderson, Larry Austin, Irvine Arditti, Earle Brown, Neely Bruce, Wendy Chambers, Continuum, The Downtown Ensemble, Stephen Drury, William Duckworth, Essential Music, Don Gillespie, Takehisa Kosugi, Annea Lockwood, Jackson Mac Low, Yvar Mikhashoff, Gordon Mumma, The New Music Consort, Pauline Oliveros, Yoko Ono, Jean Rigg, Ned Sublette, Margaret Leng Tan, Anne Tardos, James Tenney, Christian Wolff (Fetterman 1996a, 225-226; Gann 1992a; Gann 1992c; Ross, A. 1992).

6 November 1992. Frankfurt am Main, Hessischer Rundfunk, Funkhaus am Dornbusch, Sendesaal, Forum Neue Musik. Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt, Lucas Vis, conductor, gave first performance of Sixty-eight.

8 November 1992. New York, Carnegie Hall. American Composers Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies, director, gave first performance of Seventy-Four in shared program with music by Richard Wernick, Robert Beaser, Andrew Imbrie (Kozinn 1992a).

5 December 1992. Orléans, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Semaines Musicales Internationales d’Orléans, ‘John Cage Meets Erik Satie’. Ami Flammer, violin; Martine Joste, piano gave first performance of Two⁶; also performed were Three Dances; Erik Satie, Vexations and Cinéma (Joste, piano version with film Entr’acte by René Clair) and other music by Cage and Satie (Spenle 1992).

15 December 1992. New York, Brooklyn College, George Gershwin Theatre. Memorial concert. Grete Sultan performed from Etudes Australes (four of them) (Bredow 2012).

16 December 1992-16 January 1993. New York. A team of five musicologists (Paul van Emmerik, Martin Erdmann, Laura Kuhn, James Pritchett, and András Wilheim) worked on the inventory of the music manuscripts in Cage’s private collection at the time of his death (Emmerik, P. van 2018).

17 February 1993. Gütersloh, Stadthalle (Friedrichstraße 10). Ensemble 13: Gunhild Ott, flute; Alexander Ott, oboe; Uwe Stoffel, clarinet; Thomas Held, bassoon; Wolfgang Bauer, trumpet in C; Sven Strunkeit, tenor trombone; Stefan Bender, tuba; Franz Lang, Sylwia Zytynska, xylophones; Ulrich Gröner, Michael Wieder, violins; Wolfgang Wahl, viola; Susanne Eychmüller, violoncello; Manfred Reichert, director, gave first performance of Thirteen.

April-May 1993. Tokyo, P3 Art and Environment. Installation of Essay.

4 April 1993. Towson, Maryland, Goucher College, Merrick Hall. János Négyesy gave first performance of One¹⁰ (Haskins 1993).

13 May 1993. Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State University, Wexner Center for the Arts (North High Street at 15th Avenue). The second annual Wexner Prize ($ 50,000 award and a commemorative sculpture designed by Jim Dine), awarded to Cage and Cunningham, presented to Merce Cunningham.

19 May 1993. Berlin, Schauspielhaus Berlin, Grosser Konzertsaal, Amerikanische Kunst im 20. Jahrhundert. Orchestra of the S.E.M. Ensemble, Kammerensemble Berlin and guests, Petr Kotik, conductor, and David Tudor (piano) performed Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music.

May-June 1993. Berlin. Installation of Essay.

9 June-10 October 1993. Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, Internazionale d’Arte Ovverro, Il Suono rapido delle cose, an exhibition of and tribute to the work of John Cage (Veroli 1993).

20 June 1993. Venice, Teatro Le Fenice, Sala Grande, La Biennale di Venezia, XLV Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea (11-20 June). Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice, prepared by Arturo Tamayo, performed 103 with One¹¹ in shared program with music by Luigi Nono and Luis de Pablo (Cane 1993; De Pirro 1993; Petazzi 1993a; Petazzi 1993b; Van Kerkhoff 1994).

12 September-28 November 1993. Los Angeles, California, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (250 South Grand Avenue). Traveling exhibition entitled Rolywholyover: A Circus for Museum, conceived by Cage (Advani 1994; Baker, K. 1993; Belcher 1993; Blažeković 1992; Bonetti 1994; Chan, M. 1993; Cheung 1993; Diroll 1993; Donohue 1993; Fernández 1993; Fernández 1994; Goodwin, B. 1993; Hanson 1992; Henken 1992; Herzogenrath, W. 1993b; Herzogenrath, W. 2012d; Hodgins 1993; Jacobs, R. 1993; Jarrell 1994; Johnston, J. 1994; Knaff 1993; Knight 1993; Latham, W.P., Lazar, and Mostoller 1993; Lazar 1993a; Lazar 1993b; Lewis, U.D. 1993; Littlejohn 1993; Littlefield, K. 1993a; Littlefield, K. 1993b; Masion 1993; McKenna 1993a; McKenna 1993b; Rand 1993; Rich 1993; Rico 1993; Schenk-Sorge 1994; Schwartz, P.E. 1993; Shackelford 1993; Seigel 1993; Skelley 1993a; Skelley 1993b; Smith, Ri. 1993; Sullivan 1993a; Sullivan 1993b; Swed 1993b; Walsh 1993; Woodard 1993).

4-9 October 1993. Warsaw, Zamek Ujazdowski, “Days of Silence” (Cage conference), presented by the Center for Contemporary Art. David Revill gave first performance of Muoyce II (Writing through Ulysses) (5 October) (Gann 1993b).

4-7 November 1993. San Francisco, California, Yerba Buena Gardens, Center for the Arts, Other Minds, Symposium and Festival, included panel, “John Cage and His Legacy,” in which Don Gillespie, Julie Lazar, Meredith Monk and others participated (Brooks, I. 1994).

10 October 1993. Dresden, Dresdner Zentrum für zeitgenössische musik, 7. Dresdner Tage der zeitgenössischen Musik. Michael Bach gave first performances of One¹³ and his realization of the unfinished Ryoanji for violoncello.

13 November 1993. Long Beach, California. Long Beach Opera produced Europeras 3 & 4, staged by Andrew Culver (Ginell 1994).

4 December 1993. New York, Alice Tully Hall. S.E.M. Ensemble, Petr Kotik, conductor, and David Tudor performed Concert for Piano and Orchestra, as well as music by Claudio Monteverdi, Morton Feldman and Edgard Varèse (Holland 1993; Ross, A. 1993a).

1994. One¹¹ won the National Educational Media Silver Apple Award.

14 January-2 April 1994. Houston, Texas, The Menil Collection (1515 Sul Ross Street). Rolywholyover (Chadwick 1994; Johnson, Pa. C. 1994; Kalil 1994; McEvilley 1994; Odom 1994; Schiche 1994; Sieber 1994).

March-April 1994. München = Munich, Theater Marstall (Marstallplatz 5). Installation of Essay.

3 April 1994. Amsterdam, Westergasfabriek, Klavecimbelweek. Guus Janssen, Thora Johansen, Annelie de Man, Kristian Nyquist, Jacques Ogg, Vivienne Spiteri and Jukka Tiensuu and others performed HPSCHD (Oskamp 1994; Polling 1994; Voermans 1994).

9 April-31 July 1994. New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (SoHo, 575 Broadway at Prince Street). Rolywholyover (Baker, K. 1994b; Gann 1994b; Kennicott 1994; Kostelanetz 1996i; Kramer, H. 1994; Levin, K. 1994; Smith, Ro. 1994; Wallach 1994).

18-21 May 1994. Brussels, Koninklijk Circus, KunstenFestivaldesArts. Musicians from the Nederlands Balletorkest and thirty Belgian musicians (coached by George-Elie Octors and Arturo Tamayo, 112 musicians) gave first performance of Ocean, music by Andrew Culver (Ocean 1-95) and David Tudor (Ocean Diary), choreography by Merce Cunningham; danced by Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Cunningham/Lamoree 1994; Erdmann 1994a; Erdmann 1994b; Genter 1994; Kottman 1994a; Kottman 1994b; Kroon 1994; Mallems 1994; Rutten 1994; T’Jonck 1994; Verduyckt 1994a; Verduyckt 1994b).

27-30 June 1994. Amsterdam, Muziektheater, Holland Festival. Merce Cunningham Dance Company gave repeat performances of Ocean.

14 October 1994 (late night). Donaueschingen, Donauhalle B, Donaueschinger Musiktage (14-16 October). Michael Bach-Bachtischa performed sketches and Part 3 from Ryoanji for violoncello (unfinished, reconstruction by Bach-Bachtischa, with David Revill) and One⁸ (arranged by Bach-Bachtischa, simultaneously with his Notation 2 and an installation by Renate Hoffleit) (on Friday) (Nauck 1994).

28 October-30 November 1994. Wien Modern, Musik der Gegenwart, John Cage Retrospektive, organized by Berno Odo Polzer.

3 November 1994-26 February 1995. Mito, Japan, Art Tower Mito Contemporary Art Center. Rolywholyover (Shalala 1994).

13 January 1995. New York. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts acquired the music manuscripts in Cage’s private collection at the time of his death (American Record Guide 1995; Boziwick 1995; Ross, A. 1995).

10 May-10 June 1995. Perugia, Galleria Nazionale dell’Umbria, Quaderni Perugini di Musica Contemporanea. Exhibition (Polaczek 1995).

4 June-30 July 1995. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Museum of Art (26th Street and Benjamin Franklin Parkway). Rolywholyover (Barna 1995; Caruso 1995; Chapman, F. 1995; Mullinax 1995).

4 July 1995. Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, XLVI Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea (1-30 July), Teatro La Fenice, Sala Grande. Klangforum Wien performed Ryoanji (version with instrumental ensemble).

28-30 July 1995. Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, XLVI Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea (1-30 July), Teatro La Fenice, Sala Grande. David Tudor (electronics), the Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice (prepared by Arturo Tamayo) and Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed Ocean (three performances); Cunningham received Leone d’Oro alla Carriera.

15-19 November 1995. Oakland, California, Mills College. Here Comes Everybody: The Music, Poetry, and Art of John Cage; conference (five panels), concerts (five), and exhibition, “The Structure of Chance: John Cage” (15 November-30 December, Mills College Art Gallery), curated by Constance Lewallen (Alburger 1996b; Azenied 1995; Bernstein, D. W. and Hatch 2001; Defendorf 1995; Rivest 1996c; Shultis 1996).

23-25 November 1995. Berlin, Hochschule der Künste, John Cage Symposium (Castine 1996; Straebel 1996b).

19-20 April 1996. Berkeley, California, University of California, Harmon Gymnasium. Ad hoc orchestra performed Ocean, music by Andrew Culver and David Tudor (Tudor’s music due to illness performed by Takehisa Kosugi), choreography by Merce Cunningham; danced by Merce Cunningham Dance Company (George, P. 1996b).

31 May-19 July 1996. Bonn, Kunstraum MI Posselt (Kurfürstenstraße 50). Exhibition of various late artworks (Diehl 1996).

14 July-15 September 1996. Kaiserslautern, Pfalzgalerie. Exhibit “John Cage, Terry Fox, Gudrun Wassermann: Texte – Bilder – Musik, Raum – Text – Skulptur, Schatten – Licht – Klang” (Buhlmann 1996).

30 July 1996. New York, outside Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center Festival ’96. David Tudor and Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed Ocean (Mejias 1996).

13 August 1996. David Tudor died.

5 November 1996. Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof Museum für Gegenwart (Invalidenstraße 50-51). Takehisa Kosugi gave first performance of [Untitled] (1953) for voice at the occasion of the opening of the Joseph Beuys Medien-Archiv (Straebel 1996a).

7-11 May 1997. Saarbrücken, Musik im 20. Jahrhundert, ‘Satie, Cage: Weitergelesen’ (Korb and Spangemacher 2001).

1998. Bremen, Kunsthalle. Installation of Essay (Herzogenrath, W. 2012e).

12 March 1998. Manchester Metropolitan University, Alsager Campus (Hassall Road). HPSCHD performed.

20 June 1998. Dettenhausen. Rundum Cage: Ein Tag für John Cage (organized by the Dettenhausener Gesellschaft für Neue Musik). Introduction to Four⁶ (2 pm, Johanneskirche, Kirchstraße 18); One¹¹ with 103 (3 pm, Festhalle, Karlstraße 1-4); introduction and public dress rehearsal of Ryoanji (4.30 pm, Johanneskirche); String Quartet in Four Parts, Four⁶, Sonata for Two Voices, Radio Music, Ryoanji (7 pm, Johanneskirche).

26-27 June 1998. Montpellier, Zénith de Montpellier, Domaine de Grammont (Avenue Albert Einstein). l’Orchestre Philharmonique de Montpellier, Takehisa Kosugi, Jim O’Rourke performed Ocean, music by Andrew Culver and David Tudor, choreography by Merce Cunningham; danced by Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Martin, A. 1998).

21 July 1999. New York, Lincoln Center, New York State Theater (20 Lincoln Center Plaza). Merce Cunningham and Mikhail Baryshnikov performed Cunningham’s Occasion Piece (first performance) to Music for Marcel Duchamp.

27 October 1999. Columbus, Ohio, Percussive Arts Society International Convention (27-30 October): New Music/Research Day, A John Cage Retrospective, Benjamin Toth, co-ordinator and host; lectures and performances by various percussion ensembles; concluded with evening concert, ‘A 57-year Retrospective Musicircus of the Percussion Music of John Cage’ (Toth 1999).

25 March-2 April 2000. Utrecht, Huis aan de Werf (Boorstraat 107), Cage Week (Hiu 2000).

6 April 2000. Washington, D.C., Kennedy Center, Eisenhower Theater (2700 F Street NW). Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed Cunningham’s Interscape (first performance) to One⁸ with or without 108.

10 May 2000. Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, Settore Music (3 May-1 October), Palazzo Labia. Ensemble del Teatro La Fenice performed Music for Amplified Toy Pianos.

6 June 2000. New York. At a press conference, the New York Public Library announced its acquisition of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection, as a gift from the foundation (Dunning 2000).

20 December 2000-22 April 2001. San Francisco, California, California Palace of the Legion of Honor (100 34th Avenue). One-person exhibition, The Visual Art of John Cage: To Sober and Quiet the Mind (Rapko 2014).

5 September 2001-2640. Halberstadt, St.-Burchardi-Kirche. The city of Halberstadt launched an ongoing performance of Organ²/ASLSP, which is accomplished mechanically, lasting six hundred thirty-nine years; the city maintains its own website for the project, www.aslsp.org/de/home (Byrd, Je. and Fritch 2012; Darnielle 2016; Ericsson 2000; Fricke, S. 2002b; Gastell 2000; Herzogenrath, W. 2012a; Herzogenrath, W. 2012f; Heyer, Sonja 2013; Maassen 2010; Mertes 2008; Mörchen 2000a; Pfeiffer 2011; Pfeiffer 2014; Philippi 1999; Philippi 2001; Rebhahn 2009; Röhring 2000; Solare 2001-2002; Spronck 2017; Ullmann 2000; Ullmann 2002; Wakin 2006).

10 February-14 April 2002. Bremen, Kunsthalle, exhibition Klänge des inneren Auges = Sounds of the Inner Eye: John Cage, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves (Herzogenrath, W. 2001; Herzogenrath, W. and Kreul 2002).

10-12 April 2002. Bremen, Hochschule für Künste Bremen. Symposium “John Cage und die Zukunft der Künste” (10-11 April). Concert, “Ein Fest für John Cage: ‘A House Full of Arts’” (12 April) (Rautmann and Schalz 2002a).

6 July-6 October 2002, Tacoma, Washington, Museum of Glass: International Center for Contemporary Art, exhibition Klänge des inneren Auges = Sounds of the Inner Eye: John Cage, Mark Tobey, Morris Graves (Herzogenrath, W. and Kreul 2002).

21 September 2002. University of Southampton, Music Department, “Cage 2002: 90/10,” study day orgazined by Stephen Chase, Clemens Gresser, and Danae Stefanou.

14 September 2003. Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea (12-21 September), Teatro alle Tese (10.30 p.m.). Curtis Macomber (violin) and Aleck Karis (piano) performed Six Melodies for Violin and Keyboard.

16-18 January 2004. London, Barbican, January Composer Weekend, “John Cage Uncaged,” organized by the BBC Symphony Orchestra. BBC Symphony Orchestra, Lawrence Foster, conductor, performed 4'33" and The Seasons as well as works by George Antheil, Aaron Copland, Henry Cowell, Charles Ives, and William Schuman; Nicolas Hodges performed Concert for Piano and Orchestra (Solo for Piano) and works by Morton Feldman, Arnold Schoenberg, and Christian Wolff (16 January); Duke Quartet performed Four and String Quartet in Four Parts; BBC Symphony Orchestra, David Porcelijn, conductor, John Tilbury, piano, performed Atlas Eclipticalis with Winter Music and Cartridge Music (Sound Intermedia, sound design) as well as works by Carl Ruggles, Erik Satie and Edgard Varèse; Loré Lixenberg, soprano, performed Aria; performances of Imaginary Landscape No. 3, First Construction (in Metal), Living Room Music, Credo in Us, Child of Tree, Third Construction, as well as works by Peter Garland, Henry Cowell, and David Tudor (17 January); BBC Symphony Chorus, Stephen Jackson, conductor, and Deborah Miles-Johnson, mezzo-soprano performed Variations I, choral music by William Billings, Virgil Thomson, Alan Hovhaness, Charles Ives, and Randall Thompson; Rolf Hind performed prepared piano pieces by Cage; London Sinfonietta, David Porcelijn conducting, and Ralph van Raat, prepared piano, Clio Gould, violin, performed Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra and Apartment House 1776 as well as works by Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, Earle Brown; BBC Symphony Orchestra, Pierre-André Valade conducting, Rolf Hind, piano, Frances M. Lynch and Nicole Tibbels, sopranos, Paul Watkins, violoncello, Annilese Miskimmon, director, performed Song Books, 1O1, and various songs and piano pieces, as well as works by Morton Feldman and Lou Harrison (18 January); performances of Musicircus, Erik Satie’s Vexations, several films and discussions (Driver 2004; Gresser 2004a; Guardian 2004; Hewett 2004; Montague et al. 2004).

27-29 January 2005. Calgary, Alberta, University of Calgary. Conference, “Cage: Pushing the Boundaries of Music and Art” (DeLong 2005).

16 April 2005. Manchester, Royal Northern College of Music. Conference “John Cage, Thinker-Performer,” organized by Martin Dixon and Anthony Gritten (Gresser 2005).

26 June 2005. New York. Grete Sultan died.

22 October 2005. Ludwigshafen, Festspiele Ludwigshafen (22 October-18 December). Musicircus performed, co-ordinated by Sigune von Osten (Hauff 2006a; Hauff 2006b; Rønningsgrind 2012).

21 October 2005-16 April 2006. New York, Noguchi Museum (9-01, 33rd Road, Queens), The Imagery of Chess Revisited; expanded version of the 1944 exhibition organized by Marcel Duchamp and Max Ernst at the Julien Levy Gallery. Chess Pieces (group exhibition).

4 February 2006. Huddersfield, University of Huddersfield, Department of Music, Queensgate Campus. “Hung Up on the Number 64,” A one day international conference on John Cage, organized by Simon Anderson; on 3-4 February, Erik Satie, Vexations was performed by staff and students of the university as well as visiting artists from the United States (among them Simon Anderson, Christopher Fox, Rob Haskins, Ian Pace, Laurel Karlik Sheehan, Philip Thomas, and others), simultaneously with Empty Words, performed by Simon Anderson, James Saunders, Philip Thomas and visiting keynote speaker Bill Brooks (University of York). The conference included a mixture of academic presentations and live performances, including performances of Cage’s music by Christopher Fox; Philip Thomas; Ian Pace; Mieko Kanno; Rob Haskins and Laurel Karlik Sheehan (Two²).

4 May-9 July 2006. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT List Visual Arts Center. Exhibit, 9 Evenings Reconsidered: Art, Theatre, and Engineering, 1966 (Morris, C. 2006).

24 November 2006-7 January 2007. Madrid, La Casa Encendida (Ronda de Valencia, 2). Exhibit with Essay installation (John Cage 2006).

5 October 2007. Hanover, New Hampshire, Dartmouth College, Hopkins Center for the Arts (4 East Wheelock Street). Merce Cunningham Dance Company performed Cunningham’s XOVER (first performance) to Aria with Fontana Mix.

8-13 October 2007. Venice, La Biennale di Venezia, LI Festival Internazionale di Musica Contemporanea (4-13 October). JACK Quartet performed String Quartet in Four Parts (8 October, 6 p.m., Magazzini del Ferro, Arsenale); Klangforum Wien, Beat Furrer conducting, performed Concert for Piano and Orchestra briefly in concert with film (10 October, Teatro alle Tese, Arsenale); Margaret Leng Tan performed 4'33", Bacchanale, Chess Pieces, Dream (arrangement for piano and toy piano by Tan), Etudes Australes (no. VIII), In the Name of the Holocaust, Suite for Toy Piano, and Water Music (11 October, Tese delle Vergini, Arsenale); Amelia Cuni, dhrupad vocals, clapping, Werner Durand, drones, live electronics, Federico Sanesi and Raymond Kaczynski, percussion, performed Song Books (Solo for Voice 58) (13 October, 10 p.m., Teatro Piccolo, Arsenale).

17 June-5 October 2008. Barcelona, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Centre d’Estudis I Documentació = MACBA Study Centre (Plaça dels Àngels 8). Possibilitat d’Acció: La Vida de la Partitura = Possibility of Action: The Life of the Score. Group exhibition (Held and Subirà 2008).

20 September-16 November 2008. Berlin, Akademie der Künste (Hanseatenweg 10). Notation: Kalkül und Form in den Künsten. Group exhibition (first station) (Amelunxen et al. 2008).

14 February-26 July 2009. Karlsruhe, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (Lorenzstraße 19). Notation: Kalkül und Form in den Künsten. Group exhibition (second station) (Amelunxen et al. 2008).

17 June 2009. Winnipeg, Manitoba, UMFM Campus Radio 101.5. First broadcast of recorded performance of Eighty.

26 July 2009. Merce Cunningham died.

2 October 2009-7 April 2010. Richmond, Virginia, University of Richmond, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art and Print Study Center. Exhibit, “John Cage: Zen Ox-Herding Pictures” (Addiss and Kass 2009).

23 October 2009-10 January 2010. Barcelona, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). Traveling exhibition The Anarchy Of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art (Blanning 2010; Robinson, Julia 2009a).

25 February-30 May 2010. Høvikodden near Oslo, Sonja Henie-Onstad Art Centre (1311 Høvikodden), Exhibition The Anarchy Of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art (Young, Rob 2010).

June 2010-September 2011. Every Day Is a Good Day: The Visual Art of John Cage. Exhibition at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (18 June-5 September 2010); Kettleʼs Yard. Cambridge (25 September-14 November 2010); Museum and Art Gallery, Huddersfield (20 November 2010-8 January 2011); Hunterian Art Gallery, Glasgow (19 February-2 April 2011); De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on- Sea (16 April-5 June 2011); Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London (12 August-18 September 2011); commissioned by Hayward Touring exhibitions (Dillon, B. 2010; Millar 2010).

3 September-28 November 2010. Heerlen, Netherlands, Museum Schunck. Exhibition The Anarchy Of Silence: John Cage and Experimental Art (Fiumara 2010; Lambrecht 2010; Otter 2010; Robinson, Julia 2009a).

16 April-5 June 2011. Bexhill, East Sussex, De La Warr Pavilion, Gallery 1. Exhibition Every Day Is a Good Day.

28 October 2011. Munich, Residenz, Herkulessaal (Residenzstraße 1). Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, prepared by David Robertson, gave first performance of Eighty.

19-21 March 2012. Berlin, Haus der Berliner Festspiele (Schaperstraße 24), Berliner Festspiele/MaerzMusik. Symposium John Cage und die Folgen/Cage & Consequences (Dietz 2012; Schröder, J.H. and Straebel 2012).

29 March-17 June 2012. Berlin, Akademie der Künste, exhibit “John Cage und…” included 33 1/3 and Essay (Herzogenrath, W. 2012a; Herzogenrath, W. and Nierhoff-Wielk 2012).

14-15 April 2012. Chicago, Illinois, Curtiss Hall (410 South Michigan Avenue), Chicago History Museum (1601 North Clark Street) and Collaboraction (1579 North Milwaukee Ave, room 300). John Cage Festival, produced by Nomi Epstein (Epstein/Margasak 2012; Margasak 2012b; Time Out 2012).

16-19 May 2012. Lublin. Cage 100: Symposium in Celebration of Cage’s Centenary. Organized by Jan Bernad and Jerzy Kutnik. With Katarzyna Bazarnik, Zenon Fajfer, Michelle Fillion, Anne de Fornel, Kyle Gann, Hee Sook Kim, Peter Jaeger, Jerzy Luty, Gordon Mumma, David Nicholls, Pauline Oliveros, David Revill, Christopher Schultis, Volker Straebel, Krzysztof Szwajgier, Margaret Leng Tan, Fred Turner (Kutnik 2015a).

6 July 2012-July 2013. Cage100: 100 künstlerische Ereignisse weltweit. International Art and Music Project of the Forum Zeitgenössischer Musik Leipzig.

14-28 July 2012. Darmstadt, Darmstädter Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. Cage 100: concerts and discussions devoted to music by Cage (Rebhahn 2012a; Rebhahn 2012b).

14 July-7 October 2012. Salzburg, Museum der Moderne, exhibit “John Cage und…”, John Cage als Bildender Künstler: Einflüsse, Anregungen.

21 July-11 November 2012. Stuttgart, Staatsgalerie (Konrad-Adenauer-Straße 30-32), Graphische Sammlung. Exhibition, “It’s John. John Cage:” Zum 100. Geburtstag (Kunz and Six 2012).

25 August 2012-6 January 2013. Dortmund, Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV) at the Dortmunder U (Leonie-Reygers-Terrasse), curated by Inke Arns and Dieter Daniels. Exhibition Sounds like Silence: John Cage 4'33" Silence Today 1912-1952-2012 (Daniels, D. and Arns 2012).

31 August 2012. Durham, New Hampshire, University of New Hampshire, Johnson Theater, John Cage Centenary Concert. Rob Haskins and others performed (excerpts from) 0′00′′, Bacchanale, Cheap Imitation (Piano), Diary: How to Improve the World (You Will Only Make Matters Worse) Continued, 1973-1982, Sculptures Musicales, Song Books, Two.

4-10 September 2012. Washington, D.C. John Cage Centennial Festival.

5 September 2012. Berlin, Akademie der Künste, “A Long Night” (Herzogenrath, W. 2012a).

5 September 2012. Darmstadt, Museum Künstlerkolonie (Olbrichweg 13a). “Happy Birthday, Mr. Cage!” Discussion Concert as part of exhibit, “A House Full of Music,” with Barry Guy (contrabass) and Christopher Dell (vibraphone).

5 September 2012. Klosterneuburg/Wien, Essl Museum. “Greetings to John Cage,” multimedia concert performance by the Campus Ensemble (Klagenfurt), led by Simone Heilgendorff and Claudius von Wrochem: Atlas Eclipticalis, Five, Sonatas and Interludes, Song Books, as well as music by Dieter Schnebel and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

5 September-31 October 2012. San Juan, Puerto Rico, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Río Piedras, Museo de Historia, Antropología y Arte. Exhibition “John Cage: Museum Circle [sic]” (Rivera 2012a; Rivera 2012b; Rivera 2012c; Rodríguez 2012; Toro 2012).

6-7 September 2012. Moscow, Moskovskaya Gosudarstvennaya Konservatoriya imeni P.I. Chajkovskogo, International Festival Musicircus Dzhona Kejdzha, Conference Dzhon Kejdzh: Tvorcheskie Pejzazhi (Pereverzeva 2012b).

8 September 2012. Bremen, Hochschule für Künste (Dechanatstraße 13-15). Ein Tag mit John Cage: workshop, lecture, concerts.

12 September 2012-13 January 2013. New York, National Academy Museum, exhibit, “The Sight of Silence: John Cage’s Complete Watercolors” (Kass 2011b).

15 September 2012. Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle/Kunstmuseum Bonn/Haus der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Beethovenfest Bonn, “In the Bird Cage,” Cage-Nacht.

20-22 September 2012. Paris, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Auditorium de la Galerie Colbert, international conference, “Cage transatlantique: Centenaire de John Cage à Paris = Transatlantic Cage: John Cage’s Centennial in Paris,” organized by Antoine Cazé, Ulrike Kasper, and Antonia Rigaud. Hélène Aji, Isabelle Alfandary, Vincent Barras, Vincent Broqua, Judith Delfiner, Mathieu Duplay, Jean-Louis Houchard, Laura Kuhn, Abigail Lang, Emma Lavigne, Mario Lorenzo, Clark Lunberry, Olivier Lussac, Éric Mangion, Clément Oudart, Marjorie Perloff, Jean-Michel Rabaté, Joan Retallack, Julia Robinson, Matthieu Saladin, Peter Szendy participated (Université Paris 3 and Université Paris 7). (Lunberry 2012a; Patoyt 2012).

28 September-30 December 2012. Lyon. Exhibition, Cage’s Satie, Composition for Museum.

5-6 October 2012. Dresden, Europäisches Zentrum der Künste Hellerau, Tonlagen-Festival Spezial, “Für die Vögel,” a weekend with music by John Cage; dance, film, chamber music, performances, orchestral music.

10-11 October 2012. Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, Sala Rari. Conference “Il caso, il silenzio, la natura: La ricerca di John Cage,” in collaboration with the Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli, the Dipartimento di Filosofia “A. Aliotta” of the Università degli Studi Federico II di Napoli, the online philosophy review Kainos, L’Università degli Studi L’Orientale di Napoli and sponsored by the Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca Laboratorio di Urbanistica e di Pianificazione Territoriale (Cuomo and Distaso 2013).

November 2012. University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music. Cage Centennial Celebration, sponsored by The Otto M. Budig Family Foundation. Festival (5-9 November): Erik Satie, Vexations (eighteen-hour performance, 5 November, 6 a.m.-11:59 p.m., Corbett Center for the Performing Arts, Atrium); Percussion Group Cincinnati, “John Cage: A 50-Year Retrospective” (7 November, evening, Faculty Artist Series, Cohen Family Studio Theater); Deborah Campana, lecture “A Ping Qualified by a Thud: Reflections on the Life and Work of John Cage” (Thinking About Music Lecture Series, 9 November, afternoon, Baur Room); performances of HPSCHD, Ryoanji (with Audrey Luna, soprano), and The City Wears a Slouch Hat (9 November, evening, Cohen Family Studio Theater); Philharmonia Orchestra (Mark Gibson, music director, Neal Gittleman, guest conductor): 4'33", Renga with Music for Three (with Percussion Group Cincinnati) as well as Charles Ives, Three Places in New England; Lou Harrison, Piano Concerto (with Kris Rucinski, piano) (CCM Orchestra Series; “American Voices XV”, 29 November, evening, Corbett Auditorium).

14-17 November 2012. Heslington, York, University of York, Department of Music. Festival-Conference celebrating the centenary of John Cage, organized by William Brooks.

15-17 November 2012. Evanston, Illinois, Northwestern University, John Cage Festival, presented and hosted by the Henry and Leigh Bienen School of Music and the Institute for New Music, included a symposium, “Interpreting Cage,” participants: Seth Brodsky, Deborah Campana, Stephen Drury, Rob Haskins, Charles Junkerman, David Nicholls, Julia Robinson, and Adam Sliwinski; concert performances by the Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble led by Donald Nally; pianist Stephen Drury; So Percussion; guitarist and vocalist Grey Mcmurray; Cenk Ergun; Loud Objects and Bienen School percussion students; and an exhibition, “Sound & Silence: John Cage Composing Himself” (17 November-21 December, curators: D.J. Hoek, Greg MacAyeal, and Nina Barrett) (Haskins 2013b; Margasak 2012a).

15 February-19 May 2013. Roanoke, Virginia, Taubman Museum of Art, exhibit, “The Sight of Silence: John Cage’s Complete Watercolors” (Kass 2011b).

3-4 May 2013. New York, Eyebeam Art and Technology Center. HPSCHD performed, organized by Joel Chadabe and Bradley Eros (Hallett 2013; Smith, Steve 2013).

7 April 2016. Los Angeles, California, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater (REDCAT) (631 West 2nd Street). CalArts Ensemble gave first performance of All Sides of the Small Stone (Riefe 2016; Swed 2016).

2 July-6 November 2016. Hamburg, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof and Berlin, Museum für Gegenwart Berlin. Exhibit “Das Kapital: Schuld, Territorium, Utopie” included Museumcircle (Blume and Nichols 2016).

11 November 2017-25 February 2018. Reggio Emilia, Palazzo Becchi-Magnani. “Kandinsky –> Cage: Musica e Spirituale nell’arte,” group exhibit curated by Martina Mazzotta, featuring an anechoic chamber and the manuscript of Concert for Piano and Orchestra (Solo for Piano).