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October 22 NMA birthdays: 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg; 1943 - Ursula Dudziak; 1947 - Neil Rolnick; 1949 - Loren Mazzacane Connors
New Music America: The Secret History of Music of the Eighties

October 22 NMA birthdays: 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg; 1943 - Ursula Dudziak; 1947 - Neil Rolnick; 1949 - Loren Mazzacane Connors

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October 22 NMA birthdays: 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg; 1943 - Ursula Dudziak; 1947 - Neil Rolnick; 1949 - Loren Mazzacane Connors
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Robert Rauschenberg, 1968 Wiki commons photo by Jack de Nijs

Robert Rauschenberg, 1925 Port Arthur, Texas

I completed the NMA Washington 1983 festival a few days ago, but today I was reminded that I had no information about the collaboration between Laurie Anderson, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg which was a performance held after the festival, on November 3 and 4, 1983. So I looked elsewhere, and found:

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It turns out that Laurie Anderson had contributed to the Rauchenberg Foundation’s oral history project and she does get around to talking about it, and she did provide a clip of that longer oral history that is provided free to download at https://www.rauschenbergfoundation.org/sites/default/files/ANDERSON_Laurie_FINAL.pdf

Q: So the collaboration for Set and Reset [1983] with Trisha Brown and Rauschenberg was accidental, was part of …

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