- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (55 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- August pace (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- RainForest (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Title, date, and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original DAT container and audit.
- Handwritten note on original DAT cassette and container: "Rainforest ; New Delhi Nov 3/90 ; 2nd perf[ormance] ; BEST ever".
- Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's RainForest (1968) and August pace (1989).
- Sound quality is mostly good; the recording volume is slightly low overall and there is audience applause following each work.
- Donor's inventory number: D016.
- 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.
- Contents
- Streaming file 1: Introduction to the performance by unidentified speaker (0:00-1:20) -- RainForest [Rainforest no. 1 / Tudor] (1:30-21:44) -- Audience applause and intermission announcement (21:44-22:46) -- Brief commentary by same unidentified speaker on interpreting Merce Cunningham's choreography, and its relationship to the music (22:47-24:07) -- Introduction to August pace (24:10-24:51) -- August pace, incomplete [Peace talks / Michael Pugliese] (25:05-26:05)
- Streaming file 2: Same commentary and introduction of August pace as at the end of streaming file 1 (0:00-2:01) -- August pace [Peace talks / Michael Pugliese] (2:20-29:21)
- Call Number
- *LTD-A 664
- OCLC
- 884522137
- Title
RainForest, and, August pace : performance in New Delhi, 1990-11-3.
- Production
November 3, 1990.
- Playing Time
002605 002921
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded in performance in, New Delhi, India, 1990 November 3.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio DAT cassette (55 minutes) : digital, .3209 ips, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, two track, stereo) in *LTD-A 664.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original DAT cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; two preservation files were created based on content: D016a, and, D016b.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Container of (work): Pugliese, Michael. Peace talks.
Container of (work): Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Rainforest, no. 1.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : August pace (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music for (work) : RainForest (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTD-A 664