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Title “John Cage in Story Hour for Some Friends,” New York Times
Maker Eric Salzman
Date 26 January 1960
Type press clipping
Location Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 63, folder 2

Not all the performances of John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra were spectacles. In this intimate performance at the Living Theatre, David Tudor performed his second, relatively sparse realization of the Solo for Piano as Cage delivered the stories compiled in his Indeterminacy lectures. Blurring the lines between lecture, narrative, instruction, and theater, Cage embedded instructions to the audience to participate in the work by getting a cup of coffee.

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Salzman, Eric. “John Cage in Story Hour for Some Friends,” New York Times, 26 January 1960. Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 63, folder 2. 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/116/.