Max Neuhaus

1965
Spoleto Festival of Two Worlds, June 26 through July 2, 1965

Fifteen solo recitals in major European cities and the Spoleto Festival.

In the summer of 1965, percussionist Max Neuhaus participated in the Festival dei Due Mondi in Spoleto.

One other event involving Pound was Max Neuhaus’s account on another day of Morton Feldman’s percussion piece “The King of Denmark.” As required, Max performed this extremely sotto voce Feldman composition in the theater lobby with a small group of listeners standing in semicircle around him and his elaborate setup of bells, gongs, pipes, triangles, cymbals and so on. Pound, the only one sitting, placed himself a little forward from the rest and watched intently every one of Max’s moves, taking in the delicate and widely spaced sounds for the duration of the work, about seven minutes all told.

Press: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/2016/09/15/spoleto-65/