ABSTRACT

Music Walk was composed in Stockholm, and completed on September 24, 1958 (Cage 1958b). It was first performed by John Cage, Cornelius Cardew, and David Tudor at Galerie 22 in Duesseldorf on October 14, 1958. Cage and Tudor later performed Music Walk five times in the spring of 1960. In the fall of 1960, Music Walk with Dancers was performed seven times in Italy and Germany with Cage, Tudor, and the dancers Merce Cunningham and Carolyn Brown (Dunn 1962, 42). It was again performed by Cage and Tudor in New York as Music Walk with Dancer with Jill Johnston on April 4, 1962.