This program for an untitled concert at New York’s Living Theatre was one of two such events in early 1962 organized to raise funds for the publication of An Anthology. The program shows the varied perspectives on experimentalism that characterized the downtown scene. Beginning with some of George Brecht’s events, the evening included Earle Brown’s groundbreaking graphic score December 1952, John Cage’s lecture-like 45′ for a Speaker (read by La Monte Young), an improvised mashup of twelve-bar blues and Ornette Coleman–inspired extended techniques performed by Young and Henry Flynt, interactive sculptures by Walter De Maria (set in the lobby), and other compositions by Yoko Ono, Dick Higgins, and Toshi Ichiyanagi.
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Prefatory notes for December 1952,
published in Folio and 4 Systems (1952)
Corey Fogel and Luisa Muhr performing Earle
Brown’s December 1952 (1952) on
vibraphone as part of
Meaningless Work, Get to Work, curated
by Sarah Cooper and Tashi Wada (4 December 2021)
Celia Hollander performing Earle Brown’s
December 1952 (1952) with laptop and
other electronics as part of
Meaningless Work, Get to Work, curated
by Sarah Cooper and Tashi Wada (4 December 2021)
Program from a fundraising concert for
An Anthology of Chance Operations at
the Living Theatre, New York, NY (5 February
1962)
Score for December 1952 from
Folio and 4 Systems inscribed “for
David Tudor” (1952)
A Realization of Earle Brown’s
December 1952 (1950s)
AN ANTHOLOGY of chance operations, concept
art anti-art indeterminacy improvisation
meaningless work natural disasters plans of
action stories diagrams music poetry essays
dance constructions mathematics
compositions
(1962)
Flyer advertising
An Anthology of Chance Operations
(1962)
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| Title | Program from a fundraising concert for An Anthology of Chance Operations at the Living Theatre, New York, NY |
| Date | 8 January 1962 |
| Type | programs and flyers |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 55, folder 31 |
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Program from a fundraising concert for
An Anthology of Chance Operations at the
Living Theatre, New York, NY, 8 January 1962. Getty
Research Institute, Jean Brown Papers, 890164, box 55,
folder 31. 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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