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074

Title Animation of David Tudor’s realization of graph J of the Solo for Piano
Maker John Cage (American, 1912–92); David Tudor (American, 1926–96)
Date 1964
Type digital feature

In this 1964 performance of the Concert for Piano and Orchestra at Mills College, Tudor performs from his 1958 realization of Graph J, but at a far slower and more deliberate tempo. Tudor’s willingness to revisit a realization that is six years old with a very different set of timings reflects his increasingly open-ended and improvisational perofrmance practice during the 1960s.

Solo for Piano by John Cage © 1960 by Henmar Press Inc. Permission by C.F. Peters Corporation. All rights reserved. Animated score developed by Michael Gallope and produced by Greg Albers.

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Cage, John, and David Tudor. Animation of David Tudor’s realization of graph J of the Solo for Piano, 1964. . 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. https://www.getty.edu/publications/scores/object-index/074/.