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Concert for Piano and Orchestra
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The Score
Commentary
Michael Gallope and Nancy Perloff
John Cage’s Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957-58) (hereafter the Concert) is unique among his output in its association not only with Cage the composer, but also with David Tudor’s extensive role in realizing and performing the Concert’s “Solo for Piano” part. What, might we ask, is so unusual and unprecedented about the Concert’s Solo for Piano, and how do we understand its great appeal for Tudor? To begin, the Solo for Piano represented, at the time, Cage’s most elaborate and complex use of indeterminacy in performance. As he put it in his “Indeterminacy” lecture, the second of three delivered under the title “Composition as Process” (Darmstadt, Germany, September 1958):
A performance of a composition which is indeterminate of its performance is necessarily unique. It cannot be repeated. When performed a second time, the outcome is other than it was. Nothing is accomplished by such a performance, since that performance cannot be grasped as an object in time.
Playback
Archive
John Cage, Flyers, programs, liner notes
John Cage’s 25-Year Retrospective Concert at Town Hall
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Program for Performance at Village Vanguard
Program for 1958 Antic Meet Performance
Program for Cologne Performance
Program for Ann Arbor Performance
Program for 1959 Antic Meet Performance
Program for Vienna Performance
Flyer for Minneapolis Performance
Press Coverage
Press: Town Hall Premiere [May 15, 1958]
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Press: Antic Meet / American Dance Festival [Aug 14, 1958]
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Press: Cologne / Musik der Zeit [Sep 19, 1958]
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Press: Vienna [Nov 19, 1959]
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Press: Antic Meet / American Dance Festival [Aug 13, 1959]
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Press: Antic Meet, Pheonix Theater, NYC [Feb 16, 1960]
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Press: Minneapolis [Jan 22, 1961]
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Press: Album Reviews of Town Hall Retrospective and Indeterminacy
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Press: Other Performances / Feature Articles
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1st Realization Graph Sketches & Tables
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Graph B
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Unidentified Sketches
1st Realization Graph Sketches & Tables
David Tudor. Graph Sequence for the Town Hall Rehearsal and Premiere of Cage’s Solo for Piano May 15, 1958
David Tudor. Reverse Sequence of Cage’s Solo for Piano May 15, 1958
David Tudor. Graph Sequence for the Village Vanguard Performance of Cage’s Solo for Piano May 25, 1958
David Tudor. Graph Sequence for the Antic Meet Performance of Cage’s Solo for Piano August 14, 1958
David Tudor. Graph Sequences for the Cologne Performance of Cage’s Solo for Piano 1958
David Tudor. Graph Sequence for the Antic Meet Performance of Cage’s Solo for Piano 1959
David Tudor. Graph Sequence for the Vienna Performance of Cage’s Solo for Piano 1959
David Tudor. Graph Sequence for the Antic Meet Performance of Cage’s Solo for Piano February 16, 1960
David Tudor. Index of Graphs and Pages from Cage’s Solo for Piano
David Tudor. Map of Graphs for Cage’s Solo for Piano
David Tudor. Unidentified Sequence Sketch for Cage’s Solo for Piano
David Tudor. Notes for Tape B for Cage’s Solo for Piano
David Tudor. Auxillary Sound Inventory for Cage’s Solo for Piano
David Tudor. Grids and Templates for Cage’s Solo for Piano
Correspondence and Other Documents
Letter from Cage (Jan 29, 1958) about orchestra parts
M.C. Richard’s Lecture on Artaud for Black Mountain College/LIVING THEATER