Charlotte Moorman; Topless Cellist Performed at Carnegie Hall

Charlotte Moorman, 58, topless cellist who was called the “Jeanne d’Arc of New Music.” She was arrested in 1967 and convicted of partial nudity for her topless performance of “Opera Sextronique” in a Manhattan nightclub. Ten years later, she repeated the performance in New York’s Carnegie Hall, retitling the work “From Jail to Jungle.” She was nude from the waist up except for a mask resembling a portable television set. On Friday in New York of cancer.