New Music America: 57 minutes
When a handful of composers and musicians staged a week-long festival in New York in 1979, they had little idea how large an audience "new music" would attract. Thousands of people stood in line for hours for a chance to crowd into performances, and since that time, New Music America traveled the United States, settling in a different city each year. Featured in the video, shot in Houston in 1986, are members of an internationally recognized music community, including John Cage, R.I.P. Hayman, and Pat Oleszko.

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