Word: walke
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Manhattan's Kaufmann Concert Hall, where the studious audiences are frequently shell-shocked by modern scores, last week resounded to the bombastic New York premiere of Music Walk with Dancer by avant-garde U.S. Composer John Cage. Composer Cage's electronic nightmare lasted ten minutes and required the services of Cage himself, Pianist David Tudor and Dancer Jill Johnston. Occasionally reading directions from slips of paper, they scurried from one short-wave radio to another, twiddling dials and assaulting the audience with a drumfire of rattles, bangs, pops and nonsense syllables roared into a microphone. Occasionally they turned...
...picture on its small-mirror screen will not ordinarily come from a TV studio but from a closed-circuit TV camera that may be peering at something near by, around the corner, or miles away. The captain of an aircraft carrier, for instance, could walk the bridge of his ship while simultaneously watching by Electrocular a below-decks chart recording the progress of a distant air battle...
Composer Cage, a real person as Zak was not, works in much the same way. Before Music Walk began, he had no idea how it would sound, had determined only that it would last ten minutes, involve certain props and three performers doing more or less as they pleased. It was a prime sample of what students of the avant-garde call "indeterminate" music, i.e., music that is based on almost pure chance...
...Rossi, a sophomore, struck out six while allowing only one walk. He used a variety of pitches, including a consistently effective change-of-pace, to hold the heavily outclassed Jumbos to seven hits, all of them singles...
Tufts finally got its only run in the bottom half of the fifth. Jumbo third baseman Hess, the benificiary of Del Rossi's only walk, advanced to third when Appleton lined a single to right. Hess scored on an error by Crimson shortstop Dave Morse...