Institutions, technology and economics. Cage, Cunningham, and collaborators: the odyssey of Variations V
@article{Miller2001InstitutionsTA, title={Institutions, technology and economics. Cage, Cunningham, and collaborators: the odyssey of Variations V}, author={Leonard S. Miller}, journal={The Musical Quarterly}, year={2001} }
Lincoln Center, New York, 23 July 1965. The New York Philharmonic's highly publicized, lavishly funded, and well-attended French-American Festival was slightly past its midpoint when it offered an innovative and grandiose spectacle. The ninth performance of the series opened with works by some of the best-known French and American composers of the time-Edgard Varese's Hyperprism (1922-23), Pierre Boulez's Improvisation sur Mallarme II (1957), and Elliott Carter's Second String Quartet (1959…
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