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Title

Chant a capella.

Author

Judson Poets' Theater.

Publication

[New York : Judson Poets' Theater], 1977.

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Additional Authors

• Adorno, Olga.
• Anderson, Laurie, 1947-
• Cherry, Don.
• Dupuy, Jean, 1925-2021.
• Filliou, Robert.
• Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998.
• Levine, Les, 1935-
• Mascatello, Tony.
• Palestine, Charlemagne.

Description

[1] p.; 28 cm.

Subject

• Avant-garde (Music) > New York (State) > New York
• Experimental poetry
• Performance art > United States
• Broadsides

Note

• Caption title.
• At top of page: "Judson Poets' Theater presents."
• Offset-printed broadside from autograph.
• The broadside advertises a three-day event at Judson Memorial Church (55 Washington Square South, Greenwich Village), Nov. 18, 19, & 20 at 8:00 p.m.; the event was conceived by the French-born conceptual and performance artist Jean Dupuy, who also performed.
• The 19 artists who performed, all of whose names are listed on the flyer, are a representative sampling of New York Fluxus and avant-garde musicians, poets, and performance artists.
• The French-born Robert Filliou's (1926-1987) piece would be released as an LP entitled "Greetings From L, We are All Green" The title referred to Dupuy's misspelling Filliou's name on the flyer, removing an "L." Because Filliou was returning to Europe the night of the performance, he had Olga Adorno narrate his piece, which was a meditation on the view from above and the letter his name had lost. He later said that he sang the piece as his plane passed over lower Manhattan. That the content of the performance was a reaction to the physical fact of the flyer itself--of printed ephemera affecting performance content--is a prime example of the improvisational spirit of New York's Downtown avant-gardism in the 1970s.
• Charlemagne Palestine, born Charles Martin or Chaim Moshe Tzadik Palestine (b. August 15, 1945, or 1947, in Brooklyn) is an American minimalist composer, performer, and visual artist.

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Call Number

Berg Coll+ Judson Poets' Theater C43 1977

OCLC

779630696

Author

Judson Poets' Theater.

Title

Chant a capella.

Imprint

[New York : Judson Poets' Theater], 1977.

Access

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Local Note

Berg Collection copy addressed (blue stamp) on verso to Robert Wilson and folded three times for mailing, with small staple holes from mailing. Wilson was the proprietor of the Phoenix Book Shop, which was a legendary Greenwich Village meeting place for writers and artists from the 1960s to the 1980s.

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Added Author

Adorno, Olga. Contributor

Anderson, Laurie, 1947- Contributor

Cherry, Don. Contributor

Dupuy, Jean, 1925-2021. Contributor

Filliou, Robert. Contributor

Higgins, Dick, 1938-1998. Contributor

Levine, Les, 1935- Contributor

Mascatello, Tony. Contributor

Palestine, Charlemagne. Contributor

Wilson, Robert A. (Robert Alfred), 1922-2016. Former owner

Research Call Number

Berg Coll+ Judson Poets' Theater C43 1977