A John Cage piece for organ titled ASLSP — as slow as possible — lives up to its name. It has been in performance for 21 years so far.

The late American composer John Cage left it up to the performer to decide how long his work, Organ2/ASLSP, should take. A group in Germany is testing the limits.

John Cage foraged for mushrooms with as much dedication as he composed for piano. A new book shows why the great avant-garde musician and artist saw the secret of life in fungi.

Washington offers an 8-day festival celebrating the centennial of John Cage, the polymathic artist — but can it dispel the idea that his compositions are less important than his philosophy?

“Lecture on Nothing,” which is published in John Cage’s “Silence,” is a classic, studied and often recited. One of its much-quoted lines is “I have nothing to say and I am saying and ...

A new biography of the composer John Cage, who prodded listeners to re-evaluate how we define not only music but the entire experience of encountering art.

The start was typical: Oper Frankfurt in Germany asked John Cage to write an opera. But the premiere, in 1987, was unlike anything in opera up to that point.

John Cage conducting Toshi Ichiyanagi’s “Sapporo” at Hokkaido Broadcasting Company in 1962. From left: Yoko Ono, Yuji Takahashi (behind her), Kenji Kobayashi, Ryu Noguchi, ...