Paul Henry Lang, typically critical of the avant-garde, leans into his own exasperation in a way that was likely entertaining to middlebrow readers, noting, with some sense of humor, the extreme anxiety induced by David Tudor’s performances: “Now I must go home, take some barbiturates, and turn on the vaporizer.”
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| Title | “Long-Hair Critic Reviews a Glove-Wearing Pianist,” New York Herald Tribune |
| Maker | Paul Henry Lang |
| Date | 29 March 1960 |
| Type | press clipping |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 63, folder 1 |
Cite
Lang, Paul Henry. “Long-Hair Critic Reviews a
Glove-Wearing Pianist,” New York Herald Tribune, 29 March 1960. Getty Research Institute, David
Tudor Papers, 980039, box 63, folder 1. 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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