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Addiss, Stephen
Akiyama, Kuniharu
Alphen, Oscar van
Andersen, Eric
Artaud, Antonin
Ashton, Dore
Atlas, Charles
Avakian, Aram
Ay-O
Bahto, Dicky
Baldessari, John
Ball, Hugo
Barbereau, Johan
Beebe, Mary
Berger, Friedrich
Berglund, Phoebe
Bernstein, Leonard
Biancolli, Louis
Bonyhadi, Ilo
Boulez, Pierre
Brazeau, Anne
Brecht, George
brouwn, stanley
Brown, Carolyn
Brown, Earle
Brown, Jean
Buchla, Ezra
Burnett, Clyde
Bussotti, Sylvano
Byars, James Lee
Byrd, Joseph
Cage, John
Cale, John
Cannel, Edward
Carter, Robert
Cass, Joan B.
Chalfant, Kathleen
Charlip, Remy
Childs, Lucinda
Christo
Clark, Melanie
Comiter, Alvin
Conrad, Tony
Corner, Philip
Costantini, Gilles
Cunningham, Merce
De Bonneval, Diane
de la Motte, Diether
De Maria, Walter
De Ridder, Willem
De Ritter, Willem
Defibaugh, Duffy
Denyer, Frank
Driesch, Kurt
Dunn, Judith
Egan, Pat
Feelisch, Wolfgang
Feldman, Morton
Filliou, Robert
Finlay, Ian Hamilton
Flynt, Henry
Fogel, Corey
Fontana, Bill
Forti, Simone
Franco, Enrique
Friedman, Ken
Galente, Carol
Garvin, Perry
Gelles, George
Glanville-Hicks, Peggy
Gordon, David
Green, Nancy
Groh, Klaus
Gross, Sally
Grunfeld, Fred
Guzzo, Louis R.
Halprin, Anna
Halprin, Daria
Hamilton, Richard
Hansen, Al
Harrison, Jay S.
Hauck, David
Hausmann, Raoul
Hay, Alex
Hay, Deborah
Heidsiek, Bernard
Helms, Hans G.
Helms, Khris
Hendricks, Bici
Hendricks, Geoff
Hendricks, Geoffrey
Hendricks, Jon
Hering, Doris
Hidalgo, Juan
Higgins, Dick
Holder, Tony
Hollander, Celia
Holter, Julia
Hompson, Davi Det
Houédard, Dom Sylvester
Huebler, Douglas
Ichiyanagi, Toshi
Jährling, Rolf
Jennings, Terry
Jepson, Warner
Johns, Jasper
Johnson, Linda K.
Johnson, Ray
Johnson, Sue
Johnson, Tom
Johnston, Jill
Jones, Joe
Jowitt, Deborah
Kagel, Ursula
Kaprow, Allan
Karlheinz, Stockhausen
Kastendieck, Milew
Katz, Barbara
Katz, Mel
Kirby, Michael
Kirkeby, Per
Klingenberg, Bent af
Klintberg, Bengt af
Klosty, James
Knowles, Alison
Kobayashi, Kenji
Koepcke, Arthur
Kolff, Joukje
Köpcke, Arthur
Kostelanetz, Richard
Kosugi, Takehisa
Kubota, Midori
Kubota, Shigeko
Kunitoshi, Matsuzaki
Lang, Paul Henry
Lanier, Sidney
Lee, Jeanne
Leve, Manfred
Lindlar, Heinrich
Lloyd, Barbara
Lloyd, Margaret
Lockwood, Anna (Annea)
Lucier, Alvin
Mac Low, Jackson
Maciunas, George
MacLise, Angus
Mamprin, Lodovico
Mangolte, Babette
Marchetti, Walter
Massi, Richard Wood
Matejczyk, Anthony
Maxfield, Richard
Mayuzumi, Toshiro
McDonagh, Don
Mekas, Jonas
Metcalf, Megan
Miller, Larry
Moore, Barbara
Moore, Peter
Morris, Robert
Mosconi, Davide
Move, Richard
Muhr, Luisa
Neville, Phoebe
Nilsson, Bo
O'Doherty, Brian
Oliveros, Pauline
Ono, Yoko
Paik, Nam June
Palmer, Robert
Parmenter, Ross
Patterson, Benjamin
Paxton, Steve
Perkins, Francis D.
Pignatari, Décio
Porter, Bern
Rainer, Yvonne
Rauschenberg, Robert
Richards, Mary Caroline
Riley, Terry
Roth, Dieter
Russolo, Luigi
Saito, Takako
Salzman, Eric
Schleiermacher, Steffen
Schlichter, Joseph
Schmit, Tomas
Schonberg, Harold C.
Schultz, Herbert
Schwitters, Kurt
Scott, Lincoln
Senter, Shelley
Sharits, Paul
Sherman, John K.
Shiomi, Mieko (Chieko)
Siff, Nancy K.
Smith, Wadada Leo
Spoerri, Daniel
Spolidor, Fleur
Stockhausen, Karlheinz
Stowe, George W.
Stuart, Michelle
Stuckenschmidt, H. H.
Subotnick, Morton
Sullivan, Michael
Tardos, Anne
Terry, Walter
Thek, Paul
Toshiro, Mayuzumi
Tót, Endre
Trowbridge, Frank
Tudor, David
Van Riper, Peter
Vautier, Ben
Viggiani, Carl
Vostell, Wolf
Wada, Tashi
Wallace, Ed
Wasmuth, Tom
Watts, Robert
Wesselman, Tom
Williams, Emmett
Wolf, Daniel
Wolff, Christian
Wolpe, Stefan
Young, La Monte
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Science of English Verse
Sidney Lanier (American, 1842–81)
1880
Risveglio di una Cittá
(Awakening of a City)
Luigi Russolo (Italian, 1855–1947)
1914
Hugo Ball performing
Karawane
at the Cabaret Voltaire, Zürich
Hugo Ball (German, 1886–1927)
1916
Ursonate
, in
Merz
24 (Hanover, 1932)
Kurt Schwitters (German, 1887–1948)
1922–32
Four “Indeterminate” Notation Systems
A Realization of Earle Brown’s
December 1952
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1950s
David Tudor as a young man at the piano
1950s
David Tudor as young man at the piano
1950s
David Tudor performing in Spain
1950s
Embryonic graph score, likely for
Projection 1
Morton Feldman (American, 1926–87)
early 1950s
Realization of Morton Feldman’s
Intersection 2
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
early 1950s
Score for
Projection 1
for solo cello
Morton Feldman (American, 1926–87)
1950
Transparency sheet with graph guidelines
Morton Feldman (American, 1926–87)
early 1950s
Intersection 2
Morton Feldman (American, 1926–87)
ca. 1951–52
Letter from John Cage to David Tudor
John Cage (American, 1912–92)
1951
Score for
December 1952
from
Folio and 4 Systems
inscribed “for David Tudor”
Earle Brown (American, 1926–2002)
1952
Prefatory notes for
December 1952
, published in
Folio and 4 Systems
Earle Brown (American, 1926–2002)
1952
Animated score of David Tudor’s
Intersection 3
performance
1953
David Tudor’s typescript of M. C. Richards’s English translation of Antonin Artaud’s “An Affective Athleticism”
David Tudor (American, 1926–96), Antonin Artaud (French, 1896–1948)
mid 1950s
Audio sampler of David Tudor’s sonorities for
Intersection 3
1953
Christian Wolff, Earle Brown, John Cage, David Tudor, and Morton Feldman at the Capitol Records building in New York
ca. 1953
Envelope with notes written by Morton Feldman
Morton Feldman (American, 1926–87)
1953
Intersection +
Morton Feldman (American, 1926–87)
1953
Intersection 3
Morton Feldman (American, 1926–87)
1953
Intersection 3
with a dedication to David Tudor
Morton Feldman (American, 1926–87)
1953
Realization of Morton Feldman’s
Intersection +
(32nd-note Realization)
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1953
Realization of Morton Feldman’s
Intersection +
(Alternative 32nd-note Realization)
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1953
Realization of Morton Feldman’s
Intersection +
(Quarter-note Realization)
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1953
Realization of Morton Feldman’s
Intersection +
(Sketches of Clusters)
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1953
Realization of Morton Feldman’s
Intersection +
(Sketches of Numbered Boxes)
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1953
Realization of Morton Feldman’s
Intersection 3
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1953
Undated recording of David Tudor performing
Intersection 3
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
“‘Magnetic Music’ Not Ready,”
Daily Illini
Duffy Defibaugh
March 1953
Program for a concert featuring David Tudor at the Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois School of Music
22 March 1953
“Cage to Perform ‘Abstract’ Music,”
Daily Illini
24 March 1953
Letter from Morton Feldman to David Tudor
Morton Feldman (American, 1926–87)
15 June 1953
“Concerts Are Arranged at College,”
Asheville Citizen-Times
21 June 1953
“Tapesichord: The Music of Whistle and Bang,”
Vogue
, 78–81, 108
Peggy Glanville-Hicks
July 1953
“Merce Cunningham of New York”
August 1953?
“David Tudor Program Opens Sunday Afternoon Series,”
Hartford Times
George W. Stowe
November 1953
David Tudor performing a work by John Cage in London
1954
“Concert and Recital: David Tudor, Pianist,”
New York Herald Tribune
L. T.
15 April 1954
“Concert and Recital: David Tudor, Pianist,”
New York Herald Tribune
, 22
T. M. S.
29 April 1954
“Musical Events: Old Horizons,”
New Yorker
, 125–33
8 May 1954
Program for Musik der Zeit, featuring David Tudor and John Cage at Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk Köln
26 November 1954
Typescript of “Biblical Poems” 1–3, enclosed with a letter to M. C. Richards
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
1955
Program for a performance featuring David Tudor and John Cage
late 1950s
Typescript of “Biblical Poems” 4–5, enclosed with a letter to M. C. Richards
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
1955
Letter from Jackson Mac Low to M. C. Richards in Stony Point, NY
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
1 February 1955
Envelope for a letter from Jackson Mac Low to David Tudor, John Cage, and M. C. Richards in Stony Point, NY
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
10 February 1955
Fragment of a letter from Jackson Mac Low to David Tudor, John Cage, and M. C. Richards in Stony Point, NY
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
10 February 1955
Letter from Jackson Mac Low to David Tudor in Stony Point, NY
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
ca. 10 February 1955
Letter from Jackson Mac Low to John Cage in Stony Point, NY
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
ca. 10 February 1955
Letter from Jackson Mac Low to M. C. Richards in Stony Point, NY
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
ca. 10 February 1955
Three-page leaflet distributed by New York Catholic Workers for their protest against mandatory participation in the city’s civil defense drill
15 June 1955
Program for a concert featuring David Tudor and John Cage at the University of British Columbia
2 December 1955
David Tudor performing John Cage’s
Water Music
at Darmstadt
1956
“WHRB Presents David Tudor, Pianist, & John Cage in a Program for ‘New’ Music for Piano at Harvard University”
20 April 1956
“John Cage Offers Stereophonic Concert Including Eight Radios and Four Pianos,”
New York Times
R. P.
31 May 1956
“New Music Concert Given at the Carl Fischer Hall,”
New York Herald Tribune
, 15
Jay S. Harrison
31 May 1956
Program for a concert featuring David Tudor at the Vortragssaal at the Akademie für Musik und darstellende Kunst
30 November 1956
“Music of the Future: Science Fiction for the Piano,”
The Times
(London)
19 December 1956
Bassoon and baritone saxophone parts from
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
John Cage (American, 1912–92)
1957–58
Beba Coca Cola
Décio Pignatari (Brazilian, 1927–2012)
1957
David Tudor’s copy of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
, from
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
John Cage (American, 1912–92)
1957–58
David Tudor’s copy of the conductor’s part for
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
John Cage (American, 1912–92)
1957–58
Tape Score
Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
1957
Throat and Cough Piece
Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
1957–58
Trumpet part from
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
John Cage (American, 1912–92)
1957–58
“Recorded Speech I” for
Communication
Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
1958
Animation of David Tudor’s realization of graph AY of the
Solo for Piano
John Cage (American, 1912–92), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
Animation of David Tudor’s realization of graph CE of the
Solo for Piano
John Cage (American, 1912–92), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
Animation of David Tudor’s realization of graph J of the
Solo for Piano
John Cage (American, 1912–92), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
Animation of David Tudor’s realization of graph K of the
Solo for Piano
John Cage (American, 1912–92), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
Animation of David Tudor’s realization of graph T of the
Solo for Piano
John Cage (American, 1912–92), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
David Tudor performing John Cage’s
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
1958
David Tudor preparing his second realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
1958
Douglass College survey about the Voorhees Assembly program
1958
Final version of the second realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
for the
Indeterminacy
recording
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
First realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
Flipbook: David Tudor’s first realization of John Cage’s
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
John Cage (American, 1912–92), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
Handwritten notes for
Communication
Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
1958
Live performance of the first realization of John Cage’s
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
at Town Hall
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
Loose score sheets for Sylvano Bussotti’s
Pièces de chair II
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
1958–60
Pencil draft of the second realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
Performance notes for Sylvano Bussotti’s
Pièces de chair II
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
1958–59
Program for Village Vanguard performance
1958
Supplementary score pages for the first realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
Unidentified sequence sketch for the first realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1958
Letter from John Cage to David Tudor
John Cage (American, 1912–92)
29 January 1958
Auxiliary sound inventory for the first realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
May 1958
David Tudor’s Sonorities for
No. 1
from Sylvano Bussotti’s
Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1959
David Tudor’s sketches for individual graphs of the first realization of Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
May 1958
Flyer for John Cage’s twenty-five-year retrospective concert at Town Hall
May 1958
Grids and templates for the first realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
May 1958
Index of graphs and pages from John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
May 1958
John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and David Tudor at the Town Hall premiere of
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
Aram Avakian (American, 1926–87)
May 1958
Map of graphs for the first realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
May 1958
Notes for tape A for the first realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
May 1958
Notes for tape B for the first realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
May 1958
Press release for John Cage’s twenty-five-year retrospective concert at Town Hall
May 1958
Program for John Cage’s twenty-five-year retrospective concert at Town Hall
May 1958
Realization fragment for the first realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
May 1958
Reverse sequence of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
May 1958
Unidentified sketches for the first realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
May 1958
“Cage, Composer, Shows Calligraphy of Note,” review of the Stable Gallery show,
New York Times
Dore Ashton
6 May 1958
“A Whistle, a ‘Slinky’ and a Bunch of Screws,” photograph by Sy Friedman,
New York Times
, X9
11 May 1958
Graph sequence for the Town Hall rehearsal and premiere of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
15 May 1958
Merce Cunningham conducting John Cage’s
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
at Town Hall
15 May 1958
“Cage’s Music Still a Phenomenon,”
New York Journal-American
, 12
Milew Kastendieck
16 May 1958
“John Cage Gives Review of Work,”
New York World-Telegram and Sun
, 25
Louis Biancolli
16 May 1958
“John Cage Retrospective Is Presented at Town Hall,”
New York Herald Tribune
, 12
Jay S. Harrison
16 May 1958
“Music: Experimenter: Zounds! Sound by John Cage at Town Hall,”
New York Times
, 20
Ross Parmenter
16 May 1958
Graph sequence for the Village Vanguard performance of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
25 May 1958
John Cage leading his experimental composition class, New School for Social Research, New York, New York
summer 1958
Students in John Cage’s experimental composition class, New School for Social Research, New York, New York
summer 1958
Students in John Cage’s experimental composition class, New School for Social Research, New York, New York
summer 1958
Students in John Cage’s experimental composition class, New School for Social Research, New York, New York
summer 1958
Students in John Cage’s experimental composition class, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
summer 1958
Graph sequence for the
Antic Meet
performance of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
at the American Dance Festival
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
August 1958
Program for Antic Meet performance of John Cage’s
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
, Eleventh American Dance Festival, Connecticut College
14 August 1958
“Modern American Dance in Connecticut: Contrasting Styles Seen in Eleventh Annual,”
Christian Science Monitor
Margaret Lloyd
23 August 1958
Graph sequence for the Cologne performance of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
September 1958
Sketch of the graph sequence for the Cologne performance of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
September 1958
Program for Musik der Zeit, Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln, Germany
19 September 1958
“In der Werkstatt der direktiven Freiheit,”
Kölnische Rundschau
H. R.
21 September 1958
“Ein Ding mit Pfiff: Avantgardisten im ersten Abend ‘Musik der Zeit,’”
Neue Rhein Zeitung
M. F.
22 September 1958
“Im Klavierkonzert ging es absunderlich her,”
Westdeutsche Rundschau Wuppertal
HvL
23 September 1958
“Musik der Zeit: Demonstration neuer Kompositionstechniken,”
Rheinische Post
Diether de la Motte
23 September 1958
“Nicht mehr der Ton macht die Musik,”
Der Mittag
Herbert Schultz
23 September 1958
“Alibi für die Gestrigen,”
Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger
Friedrich Berger
24 September 1958
“Mäßiger Auftakt in Köln: Drei Premieren, darunter eine mit Wäscheklammern,”
Neue Rhein Zeitung
H. G.
25 September 1958
“Was man hörte, war verwirrend: Fragwürdiges Funk-Konzert aus Köln mit ‘Musik der Zeit,’”
Die Welt
Heinrich Lindlar
25 September 1958
“‘Avantgardistische Musik’ am Abgrund: Europäische Erstauffühurng von John Cage’s ‘Klavierkonzert’ in Köln,”
Rhein Neckar-Azeitung
Kurt Driesch
30 September 1958
“Sessions on Modern Music Held Near Darmstadt,”
Musical America
, 18–19, 34
H. H. Stuckenschmidt
October 1958
David Tudor performing at Galerie 22 in Düsseldorf, Germany
Manfred Leve (German, 1936–2012)
14 October 1958
Notebook page, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 2 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 35–36
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
26 October 1958
Notebook page, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 2 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 64–66
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
ca. December 1958
Piano Piece
Terry Jennings (American, 1940–81)
December 1958
“Der Kampf mit dem Drachen. In der Musikakademie wurde ein Klavier mit dem Stock geschlagen,”
The Observer
5 December 1958
“Mozart bevorzugte für das Spiel von Hausmusik. . . ,”
The Observer
15 December 1958
Announcement for the George Brecht solo exhibition
toward EVENTS: an arrangement
, at the Reuben Gallery, New York, NY
1959
Antonin Artaud lecture for the Living Theatre
Mary Caroline Richards (American, 1916–99)
1959
David Tudor performing live Sylvano Bussotti’s
Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1959
David Tudor performing
No. 3
from Sylvano Bussotti’s
Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1959
David Tudor performing
Nos. 3
,
2
, and
5
from Sylvano Bussotti’s
Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor
at the Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik, Darmstadt
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1959
David Tudor’s personal copy of Sylvano Bussotti’s
Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
1959
David Tudor’s press materials
1959?
David Tudor’s realization of
No. 1
from Sylvano Bussotti’s
Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1959
David Tudor’s realization of
No. 3
from Sylvano Bussotti’s
Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1959
David Tudor’s realization of
No. 4
from Sylvano Bussotti’s
Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1959
David Tudor’s tables and sketches for his realizations of
No. 4
from Sylvano Bussotti’s
Five Piano Pieces for David Tudor
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1959
Drip Music (Drip Event)
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
1959–62
Envelope from Sylvano Bussotti to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
1959
Liner notes for
Indeterminacy
recording
John Cage (American, 1912–92), Richard Kostelanetz (b. 1940)
1959; reissued 1992
Music for Piano No. 2
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
1959
Pages from a composition notebook labeled “Theater Pieces”
Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
1959
Performance note for
No. 5
from
Piano Pieces for David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
1959
Postcard from Sylvano Bussotti and other avant-garde composers to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
1959
Signature on score fragment to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
1959
Studio recording of the second realization of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
for Cage’s
Indeterminacy
stories
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1959
Typed instructions (in Italian and German) for Sylvano Bussotti’s
Five Pieces for David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
1959
Notebook page, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 2 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 107
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
21 January 1959
“David Tudor in Piano Recital,”
New York Herald Tribune
, 11
A. H.
20 March 1959
“‘Advanced’ Music Beeps and Plinks: Experimenters Use Bottle, Ratchets, Toy Machine Gun in Concert at ‘Y,’” review of David Tudor and the Audio-Visual Group,
New York Times
Harold C. Schonberg
8 April 1959
Review of a performance by David Tudor and the Audio-Visual Group,
New York Herald Tribune
Paul Henry Lang
8 April 1959
“Pong Bong,” review of a performance by David Tudor and the Audio-Visual Group,
The Village Voice
Nancy K. Siff
15 April 1959
Notebook page, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 3 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 24–25
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
28 April 1959
Letter from Sylvano Bussotti to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
22 May 1959
Notebook page showing draft of
Time-Table Music
(1963), reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 3 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 105–7
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
July 1959
Notebook page, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 3 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 127
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
ca. late July 1959
“Little Thing Like Mushroom Can Change Destiny,”
Oregon Journal
Edward Cannel
5 July 1959
Notebook page, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 3 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 123
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
ca. late July 1959
Notebook page, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 3 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 125
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
ca. late July 1959
Program for Antic Meet performance of John Cage’s
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
, Twelfth American Dance Festival, Connecticut College
13 August 1959
Course description for a course on electronic music at the New School for Social Research, New York, NY
Richard Maxfield (American, 1927–69)
7 September 1959
“The ‘Good Guys’ Versus the ‘Bad Guys’: Twelfth American Dance Festival,”
Dance Magazine
, 31–35, 82
Doris Hering
October 1959
“John Cage: Indeterminacy,”
Time
, 65
2 November 1959
Letter from Sylvano Bussotti to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
2 November 1959
Musica d’Oggi, Conservatorio B. Marcello, Concerto del pianista David Tudor;
Nos. 5, 2
, and
3
from Sylvano Bussotti’s
Piano Pieces for David Tudor
12 November 1959
“Concerto di Tudor a Venezia,”
L’Unità
, 4
U. D.
13 November 1959
Centro d’Arte degli Studenti dell’Università di Padova, 266 Concerto, David Tudor pianista, Sylvano Bussotti,
Piano Pieces for David Tudor
14 November 1959
“Tre concerti in Italia di musiche d’avanguardia,”
Giornale del Mattino
, 5
Lodovico Mamprin
15 November 1959
Graph sequence for the Vienna performance of John Cage’s
Solo for Piano
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
19 November 1959
Program for Die Reihe III [Third series], Musikalische Jugend Österreichs, Internationale Gesellschaft für Neue Musik
19 November 1959
“Tumulte im Mozart-Saal des Konzerthauses,”
Neues Österreich
21 November 1959
“Class Moving Definitions: For Yvonne Rainer”
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
ca. 1960s
Ink drawing by Sylvano Bussotti to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
early 1960s
“Situations” for 3 Pianos
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960
Signature on score fragment
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
early 1960s
Alternate two-page score for
Paper Piece
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960
Envelope from Sylvano Bussotti to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
early 1960s
Ants
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960
Ink drawing by Sylvano Bussotti to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
early 1960s
Collage created from a flyer designed by Remy Charlip for recitals by David Tudor at the Living Theatre, New York, NY, plus an envelope
Ray Johnson (American, 1927–95)
ca. 1960
Score fragment
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
early 1960s
Duet I
, with notes sent to John Cage and David Tudor
Christian Wolff (American, b. 1934)
1960
Miscellaneous scores by Sylvano Bussotti sent to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
early 1960s
Handwritten score of
Paper Piece
in English on musical staff paper
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960
Letter from Sylvano Bussotti to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
early 1960s
Handwritten score of
Paper Piece
in English on paper
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960
Notes on equivalencies and objects
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
ca. early 1960s
Lecture notes on David Tudor’s performance practice as a pianist during the late 1950s and early ’60s
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
early 1960s
Letter from La Monte Young to David Tudor
La Monte Young (American, b. 1935)
1960–61
Letter from La Monte Young to David Tudor
La Monte Young (American, b. 1935)
1960–61
Note from Alison Knowles to Emmett Williams on verso of “Wheat Hearts” cardboard label
Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933)
ca. 1960s
Notebook page related to
Watering Place
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
ca. 1960
Benjamin Patterson’s notes on philosophy and art (selections)
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960s
Pages from the score for
Watering Place
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
ca. 1960
Poems
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960s
Printed score of
Paper Piece
in English
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960
Photostat copy of printed score of
Paper Piece
in German
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960
Printed score of
Paper Piece
in German with a handwritten note
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960
Recipe for Buttermilk
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1960s
Recipe for Lime Pickle
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1960s
Recipe for Milk au Diable
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1960s
Recipe for Rum Coconut
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1960s
String Music
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960
Typed score of
Paper Piece
in English
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1960
Flyer for concert by John Cage and David Tudor at the Living Theatre, New York, NY
25 January 1960
“John Cage in Story Hour for Some Friends,”
New York Times
Eric Salzman
26 January 1960
“Cage Without Bars,”
The Reporter
, 35, 37
Fred Grunfeld
4 February 1960
Letter from George Brecht to
The Village Voice
editor Daniel Wolf, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 4 (Cologne: Walther König, 1991), 178
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
9 February 1960
Graph sequence for the
Antic Meet
performance of John Cage’s
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
at the Phoenix Theatre, New York
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
16 February 1960
“Cunningham Dance Group Gives Avant Garde Works,”
New York Herald Tribune
, 19
Walter Terry
17 February 1960
Flyer for recitals by David Tudor at the Living Theatre, New York, NY
Remy Charlip (American, 1929–2012)
March–April 1960
Motor Vehicle Sundown (Event)
, event score sent to David Tudor
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
spring/summer 1960
Music for Piano No. 3
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
March 1960
“David Tudor Series Set,”
New York Times
8 March 1960
Flyer for
A Concert of New Music
, Living Theatre, New York, NY, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 4 (Cologne: Walther König, 1998), 230
14 March 1960
Program for
A Concert of New Music
, Living Theatre, New York, NY
14 March 1960
Program for a recital by David Tudor at the Living Theatre, New York, NY
28 March 1960
“Long-Hair Critic Reviews a Glove-Wearing Pianist,”
New York Herald Tribune
Paul Henry Lang
29 March 1960
“Recital Is Given by David Tudor,”
New York Times
Eric Salzman
29 March 1960
Décollage Solo for Wolf Vostell
, with a letter from Wolf Vostell
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
April 1960
X for Henry Flynt
La Monte Young (American, b. 1935)
April 1960
Program for a recital by David Tudor at the Living Theatre, New York, NY
4 April 1960
“War on the Keys: Above Ground Test Deactivates Piano,”
New York World-Telegram and Sun
Ed Wallace
5 April 1960
“What Is Offered by Electronic Age?,”
New York Herald Tribune
, 6
Paul Henry Lang
10 April 1960
Program for a recital by David Tudor and Toshi Ichiyanagi at the Living Theatre, New York, NY
11 April 1960
Program for
A Program of Happenings ! Events ? & Situations !
, Pratt Institute, New York
2 May 1960
“New School’s ‘Happenings’ Proves to be ‘Hellzapoppin’-Beatnik Style,”
New York World-Telegram and The Sun
, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 5 (Cologne: Walther König, 1998), 89
Diane de Bonneval
3 May 1960
Program for a concert by David Tudor and John Cage at Ann Arbor High School, Michigan, sponsored by the Dramatic Arts Center
16 May 1960
Letter from John Cage to George Brecht, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 5 (Cologne: Walther König, 1998), 114
John Cage (American, 1912–92)
27 May 1960
“The Far-Out Pianist,”
Harper’s Magazine
, 49–54
Harold C. Schonberg
June 1960
Announcement for a David Tudor concert at Mary Bauermeister’s atelier, Cologne, Germany
15 June 1960
Benjamin Patterson, Hans G. Helms, Ursula Kagel, Khris Helms, David Tudor, and others performing George Brecht’s
Card-Piece for Voice
(1959) as part of the “Contre-Festival,” organized during the IGNM-Weltmusikfestes, Atelier Mary Bauermeister, Cologne, Germany
Manfred Leve (German, 1936–2012)
15 June 1960
David Tudor performing with gloves as part of the “Contre-Festival,” organized during the IGNM-Weltmusikfestes, Atelier Mary Bauermeister, Cologne, Germany
Manfred Leve (German, 1936–2012)
15 June 1960
Notes for a realization of Toshi Ichiyanagi’s
Music for Piano No. 4 (for David Tudor)
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. late 1960
Letter from David Tudor to George Brecht, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 5 (Cologne: Walther König, 1998), 183
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
27 July 1960
Draft program titled “The Living Theatre presents NEW MUSIC performed by the Audio Visual Group”
1 August 1960
Kaiki for Koto for John Cage
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
October 1960
“David Tudor presenta un programa de musica experimental: Jean Martinon dirige La Nacional,” 21
Enrique Franco
12 November 1960
Music for Piano No. 4 (for David Tudor)
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
December 1960
Music for Piano No. 5 (for David Tudor)
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
December 1960
Letter from Benjamin Patterson to David Tudor
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
14 December 1960
“Music to Hear—and Unhear,”
Minneapolis Star
John K. Sherman
1961
Artist index cards
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1961–64
Assorted text scores
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1961–62
Chart of artistic movements and media including optic, acoustic, kinetic, and semantic/symbolic arts, mailed by George Maciunas to Jackson Mac Low
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
ca. 1961–62
Concert flyer for “Mvsica Antiqva et Nova Presents Evenings at AG,” sent to David Tudor from unknown sender
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1961
Diagram of Sylvano Bussotti’s
Pièces de chair II
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
1961
Duo for Voice and a String Instrument
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1961
Music for Piano No. 6 (for Terry Riley)
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
January 1961
Notebook sketches for
Three Satie Spoons
and
Satie for Two
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
1961–62
Notes related to
Three Satie Spoons
,
The Bells
, and
Ordinary Dance
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
1961–62
Pages from
Kulchur
magazine, no. 3, 1961, edited by Marc Schleifer
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
Variations for Double-Bass
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1961, rev. 1962
Flyer for “Music by Toshi Ichiyanagi,” part of the concert series organized by La Monte Young at Yoko Ono’s studio, 112 Chambers Street, New York, NY
7–8 January 1961
Program for “Music by Toshi Ichiyanagi,” part of the concert series organized by La Monte Young at Yoko Ono’s studio, 112 Chambers Street, New York, NY
7–8 January 1961
Promotional collage of clippings and scores for a concert at the First Unitarian Society, Minneapolis, MN, printed in
The Potboiler
(January and February 1962)
22 January 1961
Three Chair Events
, event score sent to David Tudor
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
spring 1961
Three Telephone Events
, from
Water Yam
(1963)
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
spring 1961
“David Tudor Plays Piano at Social Research School,” review of a recital by David Tudor of works by Richard Maxfield, John Cage, Hans Otto, and Roland Kayn at the New School for Social Research, New York, NY,
New York Tribune
Francis D. Perkins
24 March 1961
Program for a piano recital by David Tudor at the New School for Social Research, New York, NY
24 March 1961
Letter from Jackson Mac Low to David Tudor
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
30 March 1961
Program for a concert of “Contemporary Japanese Music & Poetry” by Toshiro Mayuzumi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and Yoko Ono, performed by Mayazumi, Ichiyanagi, Ono, John Cage, La Monte Young, Simone Forti, David Tudor, and others at the Village Gate, New York, NY
3 April 1961
“Music: Far Out Program; Contemporary Japanese Offering at the Village Gate Proves Unusual Fare,” review of a concert of “Contemporary Japanese Music & Poetry” by Toshiro Mayuzumi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and Yoko Ono, performed by Mayazumi, Ichiyanagi, Ono, John Cage, La Monte Young, Simone Forti, David Tudor, and others at the Village Gate, New York, NY,
New York Times
Ross Parmenter
4 April 1961
Program for
Poetry, Music, and Theatre Works: Jackson Mac Low
, the fifth concert in the series organized by La Monte Young at Yoko Ono’s studio, 112 Chambers Street, New York, NY
8–9 April 1961
Program for a Composers’ Showcase concert featuring the music of John Cage performed by Cage, David Tudor, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and Kenji Kobayashi, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
20 April 1961
Program from a Wesleyan University piano recital
24 April 1961
Flyer for “Three Evenings of Picnic and Electronic Music by Richard Maxfield,” part of the concert series organized by La Monte Young at Yoko Ono’s studio, 112 Chambers Street, New York, NY
28–30 April 1961
Flyer for “Compositions by La Monte Young,” part of the concert series organized by Young at Yoko Ono’s studio, 112 Chambers Street, New York, NY
19–20 May 1961
Program for “Compositions by La Monte Young,” part of the concert series organized by Young at Yoko Ono’s studio, 112 Chambers Street, New York, NY
19–20 May 1961
Incidental Music
, event score sent to David Tudor
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
summer 1961
Mallard Milk
, event score sent to David Tudor
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
summer 1961
Three Aqueous Events
, event score sent to David Tudor
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
summer 1961
Letter from Toshi Ichiyanagi to George Brecht, reprinted in
George Brecht—Notebooks
, ed. Dieter Daniels and Hermann Braun, vol. 7 (Cologne: Walther König, 2005), 26–27
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
2 July 1961
Letter from George Brecht to David Tudor
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
11 July 1961
“Musikken der fik TV-Seerne til at Storme Radiohuset: Er den gale musik kun skruptosset?,”
Politiken
, 13
30 July 1961
Score plus related notes for
Duet for Piano and String Instrument
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
August 1961
Audio recording of a performance of George Brecht’s
Incidental Music
(summer 1961) at the Kongresssaal Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany, as part of the 1961 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
6 September 1961
Letter from Toshi Ichiyanagi to David Tudor
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
25 September 1961
Letter from George Maciunas to Jackson Mac Low on
An Anthology of Chance Operations
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1 December 1961
“EVENTS: scores and other occurrences,” typescript, sent to Jill Johnston
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
28 December 1961
Alison Knowles performing
#2—Proposition (October, 1962) (Make a Salad)
, at Festival of Misfits, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933)
1962
AN ANTHOLOGY of chance operations, concept art anti-art indeterminacy improvisation meaningless work natural disasters plans of action stories diagrams music poetry essays dance constructions mathematics compositions
La Monte Young (American, b. 1935), Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004), George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1962
Flyer advertising
An Anthology of Chance Operations
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1962
Handwritten and typed transcriptions of George Brecht event scores
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
ca. 1962–63
John Cage and David Tudor in the Tôkei-ji Temple Garden (Kanazawa, Japan)
1962
Letter from George Maciunas to La Monte Young on
An Anthology of Chance Operations
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
ca. 1962
Materials list for
An Anthology of Chance Operations
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1962
Methods and Processes
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1962
Pages from miniature mock-up for
An Anthology of Chance Operations
with handwritten notes, probably by Jackson Mac Low, George Maciunas, and La Monte Young
ca. 1962
Notes on arms, hands, legs, and feet, from Yvonne Rainer’s dance scripts notebook
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
ca. 1962
Pages from Jackson Mac Low’s contribution to a unique copy of
An Anthology of Chance Operations
(New York: George Maciunas and Jackson Mac Low, 1962)
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
1962
Photos of the Neo-Dada in der Musik festival, Kammerspiele, Düsseldorf
1962
Plans for Fluxus publications and a new music festival
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
ca. 1962
Pond
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1962
Portrait of Benjamin Patterson
Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933)
Score for
Satie for Two
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
1962
Year
(New York: Dead Language, 1962)
Angus MacLise (American, 1938–79)
1962
Program from a fundraising concert for
An Anthology of Chance Operations
at the Living Theatre, New York, NY
8 January 1962
Letters from George Maciunas to Dick Higgins
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
18 January 1962 and February 1963
Program from a fundraising concert for
An Anthology of Chance Operations
at the Living Theatre, New York, NY
5 February 1962
Letter from George Maciunas to Jackson Mac Low on
An Anthology of Chance Operations
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
20 February 1962
Letter from Toshi Ichiyanagi to David Tudor
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
10 March 1962
Letter from Toshi Ichiyanagi to David Tudor
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
17 April 1962
Letter from George Maciunas to Jackson Mac Low on
An Anthology of Chance Operations
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
13 May 1962
Benjamin Patterson performing
Variations for Double-Bass
at
Kleinen Sommerfest: Après John Cage
, Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, West Germany
possibly Rolf Jährling
9 June 1962
Invitation and program sent to David Tudor for the exhibition
Kleinen Sommerfest: Après John Cage
, organized by George Maciunas and Benjamin Patterson at Galerie Parnass, Wuppertal, West Germany
9 June 1962
Lantern Extract
, envelope and seventeen scores sent to M. C. Richards
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008), Robert Watts (American, 1923–88)
late 1962
Letter from George Maciunas to Jackson Mac Low on
An Anthology of Chance Operations
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
August 1962
Letter from George Maciunas to Jackson Mac Low on
An Anthology of Chance Operations
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
22 August 1962
Interview with Benjamin Patterson in Emmett Williams’s “Way Way Way Out,” in
The Stars and Stripes
, 11
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016), Emmett Williams (American, 1925–2007)
30 August 1962
Flyer for Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Städtisches Museum, Wiesbaden, West Germany
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1–23 September 1962
Letter from Toshi Ichiyanagi to David Tudor
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
September, ca. 1962
Archival film-to-video transfer of a 1962 German newsreel reporting on Fluxus Internationale Festspiele Neuester Musik, Wiesbaden, West Germany, Hessenschau television news program (broadcast by Hessischer Rundfunk)
11 September 1962
“Cage’s Electronic Music Amazes and Amuses,”
Seattle Times
Louis R. Guzzo
27 September 1962
Letter from George Maciunas to Jackson Mac Low on
An Anthology of Chance Operations
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
October 1962
John Cage’s
Music Walk
(1958), performed by John Cage, David Tudor, Yoko Ono, and Mayuzumi Toshirō, at Tokyo Bunka Kaikan Hall, Tokyo, Japan
Matsuzaki Kunitoshi
9 October 1962
Letter from Toshi Ichiyanagi to David Tudor
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
20 November 1962
Dick Higgins performing George Brecht’s
Drip Music (Drip Event)
(1959–62) at Fluxus–Musik og Anti Musik det Instrumentale Teater, Nikolai Kirke, Copenhagen, Denmark
23 November 1962
Event (Pulse Start, Pulse Stop)
, event score sent to David Tudor
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
December 1962
Eight Piano Transcriptions (for David Tudor)
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
1963
Ekstra Bladet/Politiken
, 1992 reprint by Edition Hundertmark
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
early 1963; reprinted in 1992
Letter from Alison Knowles to [Oscar] Emmett Williams
Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933)
ca. 1963
Letter from Alison Knowles to [Oscar] Emmett Williams
Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933)
ca. 1963
Letter from George Maciunas to Benjamin Patterson
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
January 1963
Letter from George Maciunas to George Brecht
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
ca. January 1963
Letter from George Maciunas to Jackson Mac Low on
An Anthology of Chance Operations
, written on the back of
Fluxus News leter [sic] No. 5
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
January 1963
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
ca. 1963
Letters from George Brecht to Jill Johnston
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
ca. 1963
Notebook sketches related to
We Shall Run
(1963)
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
ca. 1963
Piece for Violins, Violas, and Sopranino Saxophone
Terry Jennings (American, 1940–81)
January 1963
Untitled notebook pages on performer versus audience
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
ca. 1963
Water Yam
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
1963
Water Yam
Cards
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
1963
Ensemble performance of George Brecht’s
Drip Music (Drip Event)
(1959–62), directed by George Maciunas at
Festum Fluxorum
, at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2 February 1963
George Maciunas performing George Brecht’s
Drip Music (Drip Event)
(1959–62) at
Festum Fluxorum
, at Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2 February 1963
Letter from Toshi Ichiyanagi to David Tudor
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
15 February 1963
Interactive map of locations relevant to the creation and distribution of Jackson Mac Low’s postcard scores
spring 1963
Letter from Alison Knowles to [Oscar] Emmett Williams
Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933)
April ca. 1963
Postcards sent by Jackson Mac Low to Benjamin Patterson with various scores composed in 1963, including
Social Projects 1–3
,
Architecture (for GB)
,
Schedule (for George Brecht)
, and
Light Rhythms for Henry Flynt
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
April 1963
Concert program for
Happenings, Events, and Advanced Musics
, at Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, sent by Dick Higgins to David Tudor
6 April 1963
Fluxus News–Policy Letter, no. 6
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
6 April 1963
George Brecht performing
Three Aqueous Events/Drip Music (Drip Event)
(1959–62) at the concert
Happenings, Events, and Advanced Musics
, at Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
6 April 1963
Postcard from George Brecht to Benjamin Patterson
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
22 April 1963
Open letter from Jackson Mac Low to George Maciunas in response to
Fluxus News—Policy Letter, no. 6
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
25 April 1963
Postcards from Jackson Mac Low to Daniel Spoerri, Emmett Williams, and Robert Filliou, with scores for
Social Projects 1–3
Jackson Mac Low (American, 1922–2004)
29 April 1963
Fluxus News—Policy Letter, no. 7
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1 May 1963
“Yvonne Rainer: I” and “Yvonne Rainer: II,”
The Village Voice
Jill Johnston (American, 1929–2010)
23 May 1963 and 6 June 1963
Benjamin Patterson and Oscar van Alphen performing
Paper Piece
at the Fluxus Festival, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam
23 June 1963
Performance of Benjamin Patterson’s
Paper Piece
at the Fluxus Festival, Hypokriterion Theater, Amsterdam
23 June 1963
Letter from George Brecht to M. C. Richards
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
July 1963
“Some Thoughts on Improvisation (for the Painter James [Lee] Byars)”
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
December 1963
Letter from Toshi Ichiyanagi to David Tudor
Toshi Ichiyanagi (Japanese, b. 1933)
19 December 1963
Animation of David Tudor’s realization of graph J of the
Solo for Piano
John Cage (American, 1912–92), David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1964
Live performance of the first realization of John Cage’s
Concert for Piano and Orchestra
at Mills College
David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
1964
Performance of
Paper Piece
in Nice, France
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1964
Score for
Soap
in the form of a poster
Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
1964–65
Letter from Warner Jepson to David Tudor that includes a copy of Terry Riley’s
In C
(1964)
Warner Jepson (1930–2011)
1964
Sculptural realization of George Brecht’s
Drip Music (Drip Event)
(1959–62) at the New York Fluxhall/Fluxshop, New York, NY
1964
Performance of
Paper Piece
in Nice, France
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016)
1964–72
Postcard from George Brecht to Benjamin Patterson
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
21 January 1964
“Far-Out at the Philharmonic,”
Time
, 79–80
14 February 1964
Direction Music for Fingers
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
September 1964
Mieko Shiomi performing
Direction Music for Fingers
at Washington Square Gallery, New York, NY
30 October 1964
Three differently formatted scores for
Soap
Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
December 1964
“Conditions for Performing Fluxus Published Compositions, Films & Tapes”
George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
ca. 1965
Allan Kaprow’s clipping of Clyde Burnett, “History of Photography Is Reviewed,” likely printed in the
Sarasota Herald-Tribune
1965
Bean Rolls from Fluxkit
Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933)
1965
Communists Must Give Revolutionary Leadership in Culture
Henry Flynt (American, b. 1940), George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1965
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
ca. 1965
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
ca. 1965
Letter from Robert Carter, a graduate student in painting at Florida State University, to Allan Kaprow
ca. 1965
Notes related to
The Mind Is a Muscle
, including
Trio A
and
Trio B
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
1965–66
Notice of cancelation of Allan Kaprow’s
Soap
1965
Object edition of
Spatial Poem No. 1 (Word Event)
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938), George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1965
Partial score for
Parts of Some Sextets
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
1965
Program for a performance by the group Theatre of Eternal Music, with La Monte Young, John Cale, Marian Zazeela, and Tony Conrad
ca. 1965
Score for
#2—Proposition (October, 1962) (Make a Salad)
, in
By Alison Knowles
, A Great Bear Pamphlet (New York: Something Else Press, 1965), 2
Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933)
1965
Score for
Spatial Poem No. 2 (Direction Event)
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
1965
Star/Steer
Ian Hamilton Finlay (Scottish, 1925–2006)
1965
Postcard from Sylvano Bussotti to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
6 January 1965
Photograph of Jackson Mac Low
25 January 1965
Clipping of a tidal chart of waves at Sarasota Bay, from
Soap
1 February 1965
Notes to Soap
Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
February 1965
Program for Florida State University’s Eighteenth Annual Symposium, which included Kaprow’s
Soap
Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
1–4 February 1965
Yvonne Rainer’s
We Shall Run
(1963), performed at the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
7 March 1965
Postcard from George Brecht to Benjamin Patterson
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
7 April 1965
Letter from Sylvano Bussotti to David Tudor
Sylvano Bussotti (Italian, 1931–2021)
25 April 1965
Written documentation by Alison Knowles of her performance of Benjamin Patterson’s
Final Exam
Benjamin Patterson (American, 1934–2016), Alison Knowles (American, b. 1933)
1 June 1965
Event Score
George Brecht (American, 1926–2008)
August 1965
Handwritten page of notes for
Soap
Allan Kaprow (American, 1927–2006)
fall 1965
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
fall 1965
Graphic scores related to
Film
, from
The Mind Is a Muscle
(1966–68)
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
ca. 1966–68
Graphic scores related to
Trio B
, from
The Mind is a Muscle
(1966–68)
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
ca. 1966–68
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
1966
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
ca. 1966
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
1966
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
ca. 1966
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
ca. 1966
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
ca. 1966
Letter from Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi to George Maciunas, with annotations by Maciunas
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938)
ca. 1966
List of the Judson Dance Theater’s dance concerts, 1961–66
ca. 1966
Notes, draft program, and cue sheets related to
The Mind Is a Muscle
(1966–68), including
Trio A
,
Trio B
, and
Mat
Yvonne Rainer (American, b. 1934)
ca. 1966–68
Object edition of
Spatial Poem No. 2 (Direction Event)
Mieko (Chieko) Shiomi (Japanese, b. 1938), George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
1966
Judson Dance Theater concert program for “A Dance Concert of Old and New Works by: David Gordon, Yvonne Rainer, Steve Paxton”
10–12 January 1966