This is one of the more negative of reviews David Tudor and John Cage received in the 1950s. Here, one finds the Artaudian aesthetic of sonic violence so admired by Morton Feldman echoed in the critic’s sense of scandal and even outrage: “I vow that in all of my life—a major part of it devoted to contemporary music—I have never heard piano scores so aggressively unattractive, so utterly hideous, so insistently repellent.”
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| Title | “New Music Concert Given at the Carl Fischer Hall,” New York Herald Tribune, 15 |
| Maker | Jay S. Harrison |
| Date | 31 May 1956 |
| Type | press clipping |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 62, folder 9 |
Cite
Harrison, Jay S. “New Music Concert Given at the Carl
Fischer Hall,” New York Herald Tribune, 15,
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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