Ed Wallace had the benefit of having already read outraged reviews of David Tudor’s first recital at the Living Theatre, and here he aspires to make Tudor’s work better understood by his readers. Notably, he reproduces Sylvano Bussotti’s notation, a gesture that would give the piece’s visual artistry vastly further reach than it would see in the hands of a publisher or Tudor himself.
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| Title | “War on the Keys: Above Ground Test Deactivates Piano,” New York World-Telegram and Sun |
| Maker | Ed Wallace |
| Date | 5 April 1960 |
| Type | press clipping |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 63, folder 1 |
Cite
Wallace, Ed. “War on the Keys: Above Ground Test
Deactivates Piano,” New York World-Telegram and Sun, 5 April 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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