Finding Aid for the La Monte Young Collection 1965-1975
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Descriptive Summary
Title: La Monte Young Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1965-1975
Collection number: 100
Creator: Young, La
Monte
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library.
Performing Arts Special Collections
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: The collection consists selected writings, catalogs,
lectures and correspondence relating to musical programs and other performance
events of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela, many signed and given to Robert
Stevenson or John Vincent.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], La Monte Young Collection, 100, Performing Arts Special Collections, University of California, Los
Angeles.
Biography
Young was born on Oct. 14, 1935 in Bern, ID; grew up in Los Angeles and Utah;
attended LA City College (1953-55), LA State College (1956-57), Univ. of CA, LA
(1957-58), and Univ. of CA, Berkeley (1958-60); studied with William Green and
Leonard Stein in LA, Karlheinz Stockhausen in Darmstadt, and with Richard
Maxfield at the New School for Social Research in New York (1960-61); since 1960
Young has been a freelance composer, performer, lecturer, and teacher; became
music editor of the bimonthly S.M.S.; in 1962 he founded a workshop, The theatre
of eternal music, with which he has developed and performed his music; published
works include Selected writings (1970); musical compositions include The second
dream of the high-tension line stepdown transformer, Trio for strings, and The
tortoise, his dreams and journeys.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of 10 items, including selected writings, catalogs,
lectures and correspondence relating to musical programs and other performance
events of La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela.
The collection is organized into the following series:
- Series 1. Compositions
- Series 2. Correspondence
- Series 3. Publicity and Press Kits
- Series 4. Writings of Young and Zazeela
- Series 5. Books and Articles about Young and Zazeela
- Series 6. Recordings and Video
Container List
Box 1, Folder 1
The Two Systems of Eleven Categories / 1:07:40 AM 3 X 67 - First
Revision of "2-3 PM 12 XI 66 - 3:43 AM 28 XII 66 for John Cage" from "Vertical
Hearing or Hearing in the Present Tense"
1967
Physical Description: typescript, photocopy
11 p.
Box 1, Folder 11
Study 1 for Piano.
1959
Physical Description: ozalid reproduction
11 p.
Note
See Box 1, Folder 10.
Box 1, Folder 12
Vision
1959
Physical Description: 14 p. typescript, 20 cards, 11 strips of music notation
Note
See Box 1, Folder 10.
Box 1, Folder 3
2 Letters from Young and Zazeela to Robert Stevenson.
1971 January 29, 1973 May 20
Physical Description: typescript
3 p.
Note
Signed, with holograph postscripts.
Box 1, Folder 10
Handwritten letter to Gordon Stone, Performing Arts Special Collections, 23 December,
1959.
1959
Physical Description: 2 pages
Scope and Content Note
Concerns a concert at UC Berkeley and a donation of two scores to the Music
Library: Vision, and Study I for Piano. See Box 1, Folders 11 and 12. Includes
mimeographed program notes.
Box 2, Folder 5
1 typed letter. To Robert Stevenson from La Monte and
Marian.
August 28, 2006.
Physical Description: 1 typed page
Series 3.
Publicity and Press Kits
Box 1, Folder 2
Galerie Heiner Friedrich München. [sale catalog]
1970 March
Physical Description: 2 p.
Note
Catalog of Young and Zazeela works for sale.
Box 1, Folder 4
Performance advertisement? Composition 1960 #13. Performance 10 20
62.
Physical Description: 1 p.
Note
Holograph signatures, Young and Zazeela.
Box 1, Folder 5
Press Kit for Young and Zazeela.
1964-1972
Physical Description: Vita, press clippings, program notes.
c. 125 p.
Box 1, Folder 13
Publicity flyers, posters, press clippings.
1965-1968
Scope and Content Note
For events at The American Theatre for Poets, UCLA, Asia House Gallery, The
Pocket Theatre, and the East End Theatre; including The Second Dream of the
High-Tension Line., The Tortoise recalling the Drone.., and the Theatre of
Eternal Music.
Series 4.
Writings of Young and Zazeela
Box 1, Folder 6
Selected Writings.
1969
Physical Description: c. 100 p.
Note
Robert Stevenon's copy.
Box 1, Folder 8
Lecture 1960. La Monte Young, from Tulane Drama Review, vol. 10, no.
2, 1965.
1965
Physical Description: 10 p., photocopy
Box 1, Folder 9
An Anthology of Chance Operations. (Bronx, N.Y. : L. Young & J.
Mac Low, 1963)
1963
Physical Description: c. 200 p.
Note
Robert Stevenson's copy.
Box 2, Folder 6
Celebrating MELA's 20th Year and La Monte Young's 70th. Collection of
programs and program notes of concerts and events.
2005
Physical Description: 4 program booklets
Box 2, Folder 7
On the Concept of Time and Eternity in our Work. La Monte Young.
Marian Zazeela. 1987-2004.
2004
Physical Description: 18 p.
Series 5.
Books and Articles about Young and Zazeela
Box 1, Folder 7
La Monte Young, from Kostelanetz, Richard. The theatre of mixed
means; an introduction to happenings, kinetic environments, and other
mixed-means performances. (New York : Dial Press, 1968.)
1968
Physical Description: photocopy
40 p.
Box 2, Folder 4
Sound and Light: La Monte Young. Marian Zazeela. Edited by William
Duckworth and Richard Fleming.
1996
Parts: 231 p.
Physical Description: 1 book
Series 6.
Recordings and Video
Box 2
Test Recording
1987 February 18
Physical Description: 1 sound cassette
Scope and Content Note
Unidentified.
Box 2, Folder 1
Pandit Pran Nath. Midnight. Raga Malkauns. 4 VII 71 SF. 21 VIII 76
NYC.
2002
Physical Description: 1 CD with booklet
Box 2, Folder 2
La Monte Young. Marian Zazeela. The Tamburas of Pandit Pran Nath. An
Homage.
1999
Physical Description: 1 CD with booklet
Box 2, Folder 3
The Well Tuned Piano in the Magenta Lights. 81 V 10 6:43:00 PM - 81
VI II 1:07:45 AM NYC.
2000
Physical Description: 1 DVD (401 minutes), 1 program booklet (38 p.)
