This review of a concert in New York makes clear that John Cage’s reputation as a New York experimentalist was well established by 1956; he was already playing to a packed house that contained recognizable modernist painters. Alongside performances by David Tudor, the concert featured the spectacle of Cage’s Radio Music (1956) for eight performers on radios following a chance-derived score, a nontraditional performance layout with audience members seated on stage, and works featuring up to four pianos spread out in unusual locations.
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| Title | “John Cage Offers Stereophonic Concert Including Eight Radios and Four Pianos,” New York Times |
| Maker | R. P. |
| Date | 31 May 1956 |
| Type | press clipping |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 62, folder 9 |
Cite
R. P. “John Cage Offers Stereophonic Concert Including
Eight Radios and Four Pianos,”
New York Times, 31 May 1956. Getty Research
Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 62, folder
9. 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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