One problem for indeterminate scores is the issue of how the audience comes to understand the process involved in realizing the work. There were varied solutions to this problem: exhibiting scores beforehand (as in the Stable Gallery exhibition prior to John Cage’s Town Hall performance in 1958), displays of scores during the performance (as with Cage’s Water Music in posterboard form), and descriptions and reproductions of scores in newspapers and magazine reviews and previews. For this 1953 recital at the University of Illinois, the concert program includes a description of the score.
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| Title | Program for a concert featuring David Tudor at the Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois School of Music |
| Date | 22 March 1953 |
| Type | programs and flyers |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 70, folder 7 |
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Program for a concert featuring David Tudor at the
Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois
School of Music, 22 March 1953. Getty Research
Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 70, folder
7. In
The Scores Project: Experimental Notation in Music,
Art, Poetry, and Dance, 1950–1975, ed. Michael Gallope, Natilee Harren, and John
Hicks. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute, 2025.
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