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Article: Obituary: David Tudor
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 14, 1996
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It will be hard for anyone who is used to watching the Merce
Cunningham Dance Company to imagine it without the musician David
Tudor. Though he had a career before and apart from the formation
of the Cunningham company, he was not only, in 1953, one of the
founding fathers of this, one of the most absorbingly radical
artistic endeavours of the century, he was one of its leading
practitioners right up to 1994. Ill-health obliged him to retire
late in that year.
Born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1926, he began his career
as an organist. Before long, however, he became a pianist, and
became known as one of America's foremost performers of the
contemporary repertory. He gave the first ...