1966
January. San Francisco Tape Music Center. San Francisco, CA. Planned but unconfirmed and likely impossible due to European travels. See Murph: 33-34. January 28. Moderna Museet. Stockholm, Sweden. Presented by Fylkingen - New Music and Intermedia Art. Solo. Work(s): John Cage, FMF (1958/1966); Morton Feldman, The King of Denmark; Sylvano Bussotti, Couer-Positively Yes; Philip Corner, Beforehand, C Major Chord and Afterwards; James Tenney, Maximusic; Robert Moran, Ceremony. *** February. Consolidated Edison Power Station. 14th Street and Ave. D, NYC. Work(s): LISTEN. March 27. Home-Coming Leave-Taking Nice Way to Spend a Sunday Afternoon Concert of Traveled and Traveling Music. Avenue D and East 14th Street. NYC. Solo. Work(s): MN, Listen (1966) and unknown works by John Cage, Sylvano Bussotti, Morton Feldman, Philip Corner, James Tenney. *** June. Spoleto Festival. Spoleto, Italy. Work(s): Unknown. September 9. 4th Annual Avant Garde Festival. Central Park on the Mall. NYC. Collective performance. Work(s): American Can. Source: Fondazione Bonotto, “4th Annual Avant Garde Festival – Poster” and “4th... Card” (FXC1656). Note: American Can was scheduled for “at some opportune moment,” along with situation/event-based works by Robert Ashley, Al Hansen, Bici Hendricks, Shigeko Kubota, Larry Loonin, Barbara and Peter Moore, Gordon Mumma, Nam June Paik, Lil Picard, Raddaele, Ely Raman, Carolee Schneemann. September 13. Town Hall, NYC. Work(s): MN, Byproduct (1966); unknown works by Jackson Mac Low and James Tenney. October 8. WBAI-FM. NYC. Work(s): Public Supply November 7. Sonic Arts Group. Lincoln Center Performing Arts Library. NYC. Work(s): Alvin Lucier, Music for Solo Performer (1965) and others by MN, Takehisa Kosugi, Ben Pattterson and Takahiki Iimura. See Dewar, 2009. December 1. Hartt Chamber Players. Carnegie Recital Hall, NYC. Ensemble and solo recital. Ensemble: Nancy Turetzky (alto flute); Abraham Mishkind (violin); Judith Glyde (violoncello); Charles Gigliotti (piano); MN (percussion). Ensemble work(s): Charles Ives, A Set of Three Short Pieces (1907-1909); Morton Feldman, Durations I (1960); John Cage, Dream (1948) (performed by Morton Feldman); Netty Simons, Facets II (1961), Time Groups II (1964); Earle Brown, Four Systems (1954). Solo work(s): Morton Feldman, King of Denmark (1965); John Cage, FMF (1966). N.B. This version of FMF released on Max Neuhaus, Fontana Mix-Feed (Mass Art, Inc., 1966). ** December 31. Central Park Mall, NYC. Solo recital. Work(s): John Cage, Fontana Mix Feed (1966). N.B. “Mixed-media helicopter” happening or “Hovering” by Kaprow, Oldenburg, Gerd Stern and Ken Dewey flew over the Central Park Mall after midnight. See NYC Department of Parks Press Release (12/29/1966). 1966-67. Midsummer. East Hampton, NY. Solo. Work(s): Unknown works by John Cage, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Morton Feldman. N.B. Midsummer was a multi-year series of Happenings by Christophe de Menil (a friend of Neuhaus) beginning in 1963. MN likely performed FMF, Zyklus and the King of Denmark. Other artists listed on an extant but undated two-page folio poster with an image of a moon are: Twyla Tharp, Sara Rudner, Theresa Dickinson, Margery Tupling. Films by Tony Conrad, Robert Breer and Robert Whitman. Terry Riley “presents Poppy Nogood.” The date range listed here is cross-referenced by the CV of Whitman who participated in 1966 and 1967. Poster suggests Midsummer dates were August 25-September 2.