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December 1952 (1952)

from Earle Brown by Earle Brown

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Anybody who has consulted or even casually flicked through a survey of modern music will have come across the spare geometric graphics of Earle Brown’s score "December 1952". It has become a classic visual image, an example, perhaps the example, of a radical break that occurred in the 1950s between the causality of the sonic event and score. It has also been considered as perhaps the first serious invitation to the classical musician to improvise rather than “read” in the conventional sense. Much has been made of Earle Brown’s early experiences with jazz in connection with this, as well as the impact of the visual artists Jackson Pollock and Alexander Calder on such scores.

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from Earle Brown, released February 4, 1974
David Tudor, piano

Recorded by David Hancock; Digitally mastered by Dawn Frank, engineer, at Sony Music Studios, NYC

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Anthology of Recorded Music, Inc., which records under the label New World Records, was founded in 1975.

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