This letter from George Brecht to David Tudor shows that once Brecht’s scores were typed out and able to be copied, they quickly began to circulate beyond the artist’s oversight. He is referring to Incidental Music, which Tudor performed to warm reception at the 1961 Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik. Brecht’s mention of “Three Chair Events” at Martha Jackson Gallery references the May–June 1961 group exhibition Environments, Situations, Spaces, in which Brecht’s Three Chair Events score was presented as a takeaway score and realized in the form of three chairs positioned throughout the gallery property, including one in the bathroom and one on the sidewalk outside.
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