This is a review of David Tudor’s 1954 avant-garde piano recital at Carl Fischer Hall. The critic praises Tudor’s performance, though their attitude towards the repertoire itself is muted. They note that the avant-garde qualities of the works presented by Stefan Wolpe, Pierre Boulez, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, and John Cage should be heard as a continuation of the Futurists and the ultra-modernists of the 1920s, which, in the critic’s view, represented an unpalatable stylistic trend.
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| Title | “Musical Events: Old Horizons,” New Yorker, 125–33 |
| Date | 8 May 1954 |
| Type | press clipping |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 62, folder 7 |
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“Musical Events: Old Horizons,” New Yorker, 125–33, 8 May 1954. Getty Research Institute, David
Tudor Papers, 980039, box 62, 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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