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Title Letter from George Maciunas to Benjamin Patterson
Maker George Maciunas (Lithuanian American, 1931–78)
Date January 1963
Type correspondence
Location Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 39, folder 29

In this letter, George Maciunas describes a performance of Paper Piece and tells Benjamin Patterson that he has purchased a double bass (along with its associated auxiliary percussion and objects), with the intention of performing Variations for Double-Bass (1961, rev. 1962).

Courtesy of Billie Maciunas.

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Maciunas, George. Letter from George Maciunas to Benjamin Patterson, January 1963. Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 39, folder 29. 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/225/.

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