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CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE OF NEW MUSIC. 1967.

paul robertson — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 08:49:28 +0000

NYC: Kenneth Werner/Weinstein Student Government, 1967 Three stapled sheets (all 1pp) 30 x 21cm, the event programme for a seven hour continuous performance of mostly new music with works and performances by Nam June Paik, John Cage, Dick Higgins, Earle Brouwn, Tomas Schmit, Jackson Mac Low, Robert Sheff, Philip Corner, Alison Knowles, Alvin Lucier, Edward Zajda, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Takahiko Iimura, Charlotte Moorman, Yoko Ono, Kenneth Werner, Gordon Mumma, Ben Patterson, Malcolm Goldstein, Robert Ashley, and Philip Krumm. The programme lists all the works in order and the musicians. Experiments in Art & Technology are thanked for their help in making the concert possible. VG++. Very scarce.

FESTIVAL GRUPPO ’70. 1965.

paul robertson — Sat, 31 Oct 2020 13:07:46 +0000

Firenze: Galleria Numero, n.d. (1965)

36 x 25cm, black on yellow offset poster for an early performance Festival with contributions by Moorman, Brecht, Sylvano Bussotti, Chiari, and Antonio Infantino who perform works by Brecht-Tenny, Earle Brown, Dick Higgins, John Cage, Nam June Paik, and others. VG+. Rare Fluxus related poster.

YAM FESTIVAL. 1963.

paul robertson — Tue, 06 Oct 2020 13:37:16 +0000

NYC: Yam Festival, 1963 27.9 x 21.6cm, 1pp mimeograph (aniline purple) leaflet for the all-night concert held at the Hardware Poet's Playhouse, NYC, on May 11, 1963 as part of the month-long Yam Festival The festival was conceived by George Brecht and Robert Watts, who invited Charlotte Moorman to organise a concert of new and experimental music as part of a continuous performance on May 11-12 ('YamDay') featuring about 140 works by 37 artists. The flyer lists the concert performers (as well as Moorman, they included Earl eBrown, Joseph Byrd, Max Neuhaus, and the dancer, Yvonne Rainer), and the compositions she chose (work by John Cage, Morton Feldman, Joseph Byrd, Christian Wolff, Edgard Varèse, and Luciano Berio).

COMPOSERS’ NOTES FOR VERTICAL THOUGHTS AND OTHER WORKS. 1963.

paul robertson — Mon, 29 Jun 2020 15:21:53 +0000

N.p. (NYC): n.p. (Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts), n.d. (1963) 23.5 x 16cm, 2pp. Black on cream “composer’s notes for various new music works including the premier of Feldman’s Vertical Thoughts, The Straits of Magellan, For Franz Kline, The Swallows of Salangan all by Feldman and Brown’s December 1952, Pentathis, Available Forms I and the premier of From Here - all written by the composers. On October 11, 1963, the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts held its first publicly sponsored event. The performance, “Music of Orchestra and Chorus by Morton Feldman and Earle Brown," was conceived of by Foundation co-founder John Cage as an opportunity for Feldman and Brown to present four works for a large ensemble. This is a scarce documentation for the event and has a contemporaneous pencil note “Wxxxx (unreadable) at slow tempi and with long rests & durations” in an unknown hand. Previously folded and some sun damage to left of the front but a wealth of information about this event and rare.

2 RECITALS BY DAVID TUDOR, PIANIST. 1952. FIRST DOCUMENTATION OF 4’ 33” – SECOND EVER PERFORMANCE

paul robertson — Thu, 26 Dec 2019 15:12:36 +0000

NYC: Carl Fischer Concert Hall, n.d. (1952) 9.9 x 21.2cm, 1pp. Announcement card (typographic, b/w) for this concert by Tudor. The card notes that the first programme will included works by Earle Brouwn, John Cage and Christian Wolff and the second programme by Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen, Morton Feldman and Stefan Wolfe. The card notes “many first New York performances on both programmes”. Importantly this concert marked only the second ever performance of John Cage’s 4’33” - preceded only by a prior outing in Woodstock on August 29, 1952 - this performance being only 8 months later. 4’33” is a key moment in the history of new music - challenging the very notion of what music is. This is the first and only documentation available for this historic moment - there was no publicity material for the Woodstock concert. Fine condition. Clearly very rare.

MIXED MEDIA – OPERA NAM JUNE PAIK – CHARLOTTE MOORMAN. 1968.

paul robertson — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:41:28 +0000

Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati, 1968

21 x 15cm, 4pp. Mimeograph. The programme / handout for a performance of the Mixed~Media Opera which took place during the touring Intermedia '68 events. A potted biography on Paik and Moorman is followed by the programme listings of works by George Brecht, Giuseppe Chiari, Earle Brouwn, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Jud Yalkut, Paik, Henning Christiansen, Kosugi and Beuys. Added to this performance is Paik's 'One for violin', and 'Simple'. Johan Mekas is noted as a 'guest performer' and Yud Yalkut was the film technician for the performance. Fine. Very scarce.

125 uk pounds

MIXED MEDIA – OPERA CHARLOTTE MOORMAN NAM JUNE PAIK AVANT-GARDE MUSIC EXPERIENCE AND AN UNDERGROUND FILM BY NORMAN BERG. 1967.

paul robertson — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:39:09 +0000

USA: Intermedia '68/ Rochester Arts Center, 1967

21 x 15cm, 4pp , B/w offset. The programme / handout for a performance of the Mixed~Media Opera which took place during the touring Intermedia '68 events. Internally lists the works by George Brecht, Giuseppe Chiari, Earle Brouwn, John Cage, Yoko Ono, Jud Yalkut, Paik, Henning Christiansen, Kosugi and Beuys. Added to this individual performance is Paik's 'A la Maniere de Phillip Corner', Norman Berg's 'An underground film' and 'Sensitivo by Sylvano Bossatti'. Fine. Very scarce.

INTERMEDIA ’68 PRESENTS MIXED MEDIA OPERA WITH NAM JUNE PAIK AND CHARLOTTE MOORMAN. 1968.

paul robertson — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:34:59 +0000

USA: Intermedia '68, 1968

30 x 21cm, 2pp (printed recto only), Mimeograph - blue-purple on white. Stapled top left. The programme / handout for a performance of the Mixed~Media Opera which took place during the touring Intermedia '68 events. The first sheet details in brief works by George Brecht and James Tenney, Giuseppe Chiari, Earle Brouwn, John Cage, Yoko Ono (Cut Piece), Jud Yalkut, Paik, Henning Christiansen, Kosugi and Beuys (Cello Sonata) all to be performed by Paik and Moorman. The other sheet is dedicated to a biography of Paik. Fine. Very scarce.