- Additional Authors
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (30 minutes) : digital, mono
- Summary
- Merce Cunningham speaks in short statements (recorded in separate takes) about dance and his choreography, including the spoken introduction for upcoming performances and short anecdotes from his [Merce Cunningham Dance] Company's tours; (ca. 20:00) more on his choreography and his compositional use of chance methods; use of music and sound in his works.
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Lectures.
- Note
- This recording seems to be a rehearsal of a lecture by Merce Cunningham about his choreography, to be given at an unspecified date and location.
- Title and date provided by cataloger based on audition and handwritten note affixed to the original reel hub; based on the speaker's references to specific tour locations and the premiere of Winterbranch, this reel was likely recorded in early (March) 1964.
- Handwritten note on original container: "L/Dem ; I/77".
- Sound quality is poor; at times, Merce Cunningham's voice is inaudible and begins and ends abruptly. There are ongoing background noises that occasionally consist of a recording of Cunningham's voice at a very low volume level. There are occasional recording gaps.
- Donor's inventory number: R017.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Event (note)
- Recording location is unidentified.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 2361
- OCLC
- 880588797
- Author
Cunningham, Merce, speaker.
- Title
Merce Cunningham speaks about his choreography.
- Production
[March, 1964?]
- Playing Time
003025
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recording location is unidentified.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (31 minutes) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, mono ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2361.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original open tape reel by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on January 22, 2014.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2361