The question of form is key in the music of Earle Brown, one of the foremost American composers of the past fifty years. It was a certain amount of serendipity and a shared interest in the liberation of musical form which brought Brown together, circa 1951, with John Cage, Morton Feldman, Christian Wolff, and David Tudor, in what was for a time called the New York School... There was a close identification between these composers and painters at this time, and Feldman and Brown, especially, took vital inspriation from the philosophies and techniques of artists like, respectively, Rothko and Pollock. - Art Lange
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