NTS aired an episode dedicated to the music of John Cage on 19 January 2020. John Cage has been played on NTS over 140 times, featured on 136 episodes and was first played on 19 April 2013.

John Cage (born September 5, 1912, Los Angeles, California, USA - died August 12, 1992, New York City, New York, USA) was an American composer, music theorist, writer, philosopher, and artist. He is best known and lauded as a pioneer of post-war avant-garde composition.

He left Pomona College early to travel in Europe (1930-31), then studied with Henry Cowell in New York (1933-4) and Arnold Schoenberg in Los Angeles…