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Jon Bowie

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Typewritten letter from a member of the Sonic Arts Group (also known as the Sonic Arts Union) to Jon Bowie, dated March 22, 1967. The letter describes the Sonic Arts Group's upcoming performance at the Spring Arts Festival, contains a list of equipment for the performance, and includes biographies for the members of the group: David Behrman, Robert Ashley, Gordon Mumma, and Alvin Lucier. Drawn on the back of the first page (page 2 of the PDF) is an unidentified diagram. Handwritten at the top of the second page of the letter (page 3 of the PDF): "Return to Bowie," and other marginalia on the page indicates which equipment RPI needs to acquire and which they already have. Handwritten on the back of the second page (page 4 in PDF): "1.

Personal Name Subject

Ashley, Robert, 1930-2014; Mumma, Gordon, 1935-; Behrman, David; Lucier, Alvin

Corporate Name Subject

Richmond Professional Institute; Sonic Arts Union (Musical group)

Topical Subject

Arts festivals; Performing arts festivals; Art, American -- 20th century -- History; Composers; Music--Performance

City/Location

Richmond (Va.)

Genre

correspondence

Local Genre

text

Type

Text

Digital Format

application/pdf

Language

eng

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This material is protected by copyright, and copyright is held by VCU. You are permitted to use this material in any way that is permitted by copyright. In addition, this material is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Acknowledgment of Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is required.

Collection

Bang Arts Festival, Richmond Professional Institute, 1964-1967

Source

Letter from the Sonic Arts Group to Jon Bowie, 1967 March 22, Richard Carlyon Papers, Accession 2016.07.150, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University.

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M442_b01_i082.pdf

Letter from the Sonic Arts Group to Jon Bowie, 1967 March 22

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