experiences isn’t what we do. It’s that sense of discovering the hidden that the amateur mycologist found so thrilling about mushroom hunting. The pages of the Mushroom Book — a collaboration with ...

Visitors and journalists have been coming to see the organ in the Burchardi Church to witness the sound change in the world's slowest piece of music. Matthias Bein/dpa Twenty-two years into the ...

No matter whether you prefer jazz, country, or rock and roll, most interesting songs have a bunch of chord changes that come and go throughout the bop’s roughly three-minute runtime. Those tuning into ...

View of an embroidered sheet of music from the piece Organ2/ASLSP by John Cage. Artist Sabine Groschup expands the embroidery with each change of sound. After two years, the sound of the slowest piece ...

Volunteers from the John Cage Organ Foundation conducting an earlier chord change in October 2013 Peter Förster / Picture Alliance via Getty Images An organ tasked with playing a musical composition ...

Today, in the German town of Halberstadt, an organ performing a piece of music by the late American composer John Cage struck a new chord for the first time in two years. Here it is. (SOUNDBITE OF ...

John Cage stands large in 20th century history as one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde. As a composer he was an utterly original master of the form, his experimental attitude best ...

In his “Europeras,” Cage dismantled centuries of tradition and expectations, for musicians and audiences alike. A rare revival is coming to Detroit. By Joshua Barone The start was typical: Oper ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. By now, the accomplishments of Cage’s busy and long life are well known. By now, the accomplishments of Cage’s ...

Jackson Pollock and John Cage are legends in American history. In the centennial year of both artists’ births, two exhibitions now on view in New York celebrate their work and underline the fact that ...