The New York Times critic Ross Parmenter reviewed this concert, using the sixties slang term “far out” to characterize the new music and poetry of Japanese composers Toshiro Mayuzumi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and Yoko Ono. The concert evidenced the international reach of John Cage’s music and ideas. It was also remarkable for being among the first public presentations in the United States of Ono’s compositions that would be collected in Grapefruit (1964), her now-famous compendium of poems, scores, and other writings.
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| Title | Program for a concert of “Contemporary Japanese Music & Poetry” by Toshiro Mayuzumi, Toshi Ichiyanagi, and Yoko Ono, performed by Mayazumi, Ichiyanagi, Ono, John Cage, La Monte Young, Simone Forti, David Tudor, and others at the Village Gate, New York, NY |
| Date | 3 April 1961 |
| Type | programs and flyers |
| Location | Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers, 980039, box 73, folder 1 |
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Program for a concert of “Contemporary Japanese Music
& Poetry” by Toshiro Mayuzumi, Toshi Ichiyanagi,
and Yoko Ono, performed by Mayazumi, Ichiyanagi, Ono,
John Cage, La Monte Young, Simone Forti, David Tudor,
and others at the Village Gate, New York, NY, 3 April
1961. Getty Research Institute, David Tudor Papers,
980039, box 73, 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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