A concert hall for the New York Philharmonic Symphony Society by Keselica, Michael

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The institutionalisation of “Uptown”: Contemporary orchestral music practices in New York City 1960–1975 by Lucy Abrams-Husso

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The making of an American orchestra: U.C. Hill and the Philharmonic in New York, 1815-1848 by Haws, BB

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Návrat Jana Nováka do USA by Martin Flašar

“…Dido was finally performed by the New York Philharmonic in 1986, two years after Jan Novák's death; but he was never to return either to the USA or to the country of his birth for the recognition that was his due.…”
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Variations V: "Escaping Stagnation" Through Movement of Signification by Elizabeth Hoover

“…Variations V, a collaborative event by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and composer John Cage, premiered on July 23,1965 at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts as part of the New York Philharmonic's French-American Festival. Following Edgard Varese's Hyperprism, Pierre Boulez's Improvisation sur Mallarme II, and Elliot Carter's Second String Quartet, Variations V contrasted greatly in composition and media with the pieces of the first half of the Philharmonic's program. …”
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Review of Benjamin Piekut. 2011. Experimentalism Otherwise: The New York Avant-Garde and Its Limits. Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London: University of California Press by Thomas Fogg

“…Four chapters tell stories of avant-garde music making, each loosely connected by time and place: a performance of John Cage’s Atlas Eclipticalisby the New York Philharmonic; Henry Flynt’s encounter with Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Originale; the establishment of the Jazz Composers Guild; Charlotte Moorman’s performance of Cage’s 26′ 1.1499″ for a String Player. …”
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