- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (27 minutes) : digital, mono
- Summary
- (0:00-8:09) Cut 1: David Vaughan speaks with radio announcer Ralph Lowenstein on March 20, 1973 for WNCN FM radio, about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's upcoming performances [March 22-25, 1973] of Events, numbers 65, 66, 67, and 68, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; briefly, Merce Cunningham's choreographic approach to Events, including his use of excerpts from the Company repertory; the circumstances of the original "museum event" in 1964; examples of subsequent performances of the Events; Cunningham's incorporation of each specific performance site for an Event; the dancer's job to quickly assemble the choreography from separate works for Events; briefly, the live music, composers and musicians, for the Events to be performed at BAM; Cunningham's working methods, especially his separation of dance from a musical score or from a storyline; Lowenstein makes a final announcement about the performances.
- (8:13-17:17) Cut 2: David Vaughan speaks with radio announcer Ralph Lowenstein on March 21, 1973 for WNCN FM radio, about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's upcoming performances [March 22-25, 1973] of Events, numbers 65, 66, 67, and 68, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; the unique, assemblage type nature of the Events, including examples of the new choreography by Cunningham in the Events; the Company's residency and relationship with BAM; the Company's touring and performance plans for after the BAM performances; changes of personnel in the Company, especially Carolyn Brown's recent retirement from the Company; briefly lists others who had left the Company, especially those that pursued their own choreography; Cunningham's interest in using no storyline and the possibility for an audience's open interpretation of his choreography; briefly, the discipline and technique of modern dance, especially in Cunningham's classes and choreography; Cunningham's separation of choreography from musical interpretation and the Company's use of live music in performances; Vaughan lists the musicians in the upcoming performances; Lowenstein makes a final announcement about the performances.
- (17:21-27:16) Cut 3: David Vaughan speaks with radio announcer Ralph Lowenstein on March 22, 1973 for WNCN FM radio, about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's upcoming performances [March 22-25, 1973] of Events, numbers 65, 66, 67, and 68, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music; a brief description of the original "museum event" in 1964 at the Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna [Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts]; the use of excerpts from the Company's repertory to comprise Events; Events as a choreographic solution to the unknown circumstances that arise during the Company's tours; the origin of the title for Cunningham's dance Canfield; briefly, more on how Cunningham names his works; briefly, Cunningham's use of chance methods in choreography; briefly, how the Company's dancers learn without music and memorize large amounts of choreography; the Company dancers' mental concentration in order to assemble and reorder sections of the repertory for Events; briefly, Cunningham's use of a stopwatch for sections of his choreography in rehearsal, and agreed upon time limits with the musicians for the work as a whole; Lowenstein makes a final announcement about the performances.
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Radio interviews.
- Radio public service announcements.
- Note
- Title provided by cataloger based on audition and typed note on original container.
- Three interviews with David Vaughan conducted by Ralph Lowenstein of WNCN Radio station about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's performances on March 22-25, 1973, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
- Typed note on original container: "David Vaughan (For Merce Cunningham) with Ralph Lowenstein ; Cut 1: 6:05PM, Tues., 3/20, 8' 10" ; Cut 2: 1:05PM, Wed., 3/21, 9:00 ; Cut 3: 6:45PM, Thurs., 3/22, 9:53".
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LT-7-A 2352
- OCLC
- 880674515
- Author
Vaughan, David, 1924- interviewee.
- Title
David Vaughan speaks about the Merce Cunningham Dance Company on WNCN radio.
- Production
1973.
- Playing Time
002717
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Broadcast on WNCN Radio station, New York, New York, 1973 March 20, 21, 22
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (33 minutes) : analog, half track, mono ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2352.
- 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 16, 2014. To create the streaming file, the sound engineers edited out the recording silences in the preservation file, thus the discrepancies in length between the preservation file and the streaming file.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Lowenstein, Ralph, interviewer.
Brooklyn Academy of Music.
WNCN (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
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 2352