Summary: As Radio 3 celebrates the centenary of composer John Cage's birth, Tom Service looks back at his life and work, and asks how are we to understand Cage today? Joined by Cage biographers Mark Swed and David Nicholls, Tom hears from a chorus of Cage's colleagues and friends, and asks whether as Cage's former teacher Arnold Schoenberg said, he was not "a composer, but an inventor - of genius", or if his works, rooted in ideas as diverse as the Chinese book of changes, the I-Ching, Zen buddhism and the social theory of Buckminster Fuller, are still relevant as part of the canon of 20th Century composition. Featuring contributions from John Adams, Howard Skempton, Christian Wolff, Marjorie Perloff, David Behrman and Andrew Culver.
