Cage, John. (1912–1992) & Tudor, David. (1926–1996)
Signed Program
1 page. 8vo. Cage is credited with "Composition (intermediate)" [an apparent misspelling/misunderstanding of "indeterminate"!] and Tudor with "Sound System." Inscribed to Guillermo Espinosa, founder of an orchestral group in Bogota, Colombia, and director of the music department of the Pan American Union, to whom printed thanks are extended. Slightly creased at folds.Cage is considered "one of the leading figures of the postwar avant garde. The influence of his compositions, writings and personality has been felt by a wide range of composers around the world. He has had a greater impact on music in the 20th century than any other American composer." Tudor (1926-1996), well-known as both a pianist and as a pioneer in the performance of new music, was a frequent collaborator with Cage. "Yet it may have been inevitable that the freedoms entrusted him by composers, his own extensions of the use of sonic materials in his realizations, and his sense of a decrease in the challenge he saw as essential to the composer-performer relationship, gradually led Tudor away from piano-playing almost entirely and into the field of live electronics. Here, too, he was a pioneer, as well as a guiding spirit for a new generation of composers and performers: designing his own sources of sound production, transforming conventional sound-transmitters (such as loudspeakers) into sound-generators, programming feedback as a component of the composition and mixing both input and output matrices." (8601)
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