Expo 58
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From 17-19th October 1958,[1] Delia wnet with Jonathan Harvey to Expo 58 in Brussels, where they heard the world première of Varese's "Poème Eléctronique"[2] at its world première, performed on 425 speakers.[3]
File:Group photo of electronic musical luminaries at Expo 58.jpg
Group photo at l'Exposition Internationale et Universelle. From left to right, first row: Mauricio Kagel, Earl Brown, Luciano Berio, Karlheinz Stockhausen; second row: Henk Badings, André Boucourechliev, Bruno Maderna, Henri Pousseur, Marina Scriabine, Luc Ferrari, Pierre Schaeffer; Lying down: John Cage.
Tristam Cary and Daphne Oram were also there, though presumably she didn't know them at that point, as were most of the electronic musical luminaries of the time.
References
- ↑ Expo 58 on wikipedia.org
- ↑ Personal communication from Jonathan Harvey's daughter, May 2017.
- ↑ Professor Chou Wen-chung, musical executor of the Varese estate, on Edgard Varese's "Poem Electronique" on furious.com
