- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (159 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Interscape (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Interscape (2000) consisting of John Cage's cello solo, One⁸, that can also be played with Cage's orchestral music, 108. These performances are of the cello solo only.
- Title, dates, location, performer, and speakers provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original DAT containers and audition.
- Handwritten note on original DAT container no. 1: "Kennedy Center ; 4-6-00 ; 108 (Interscape) ; 108 [One⁸] - cello, Loren Dempster ; Also Merce + Bob R [Robert Rauschenberg] post-show chat w/out moderator". Handwritten note on original DAT container no. 2: "Kennedy Center ; 4-7 +4-8-00 ; Interscape 108 [One⁸] ; cello - Loren Dempster ; 2 performances".
- Sound quality is mostly good; at times, Rauschenberg speaks away from the microphone but he is still audible.
- Donor's inventory numbers: D316, and, D317.
- 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, Apr. 6: Interscape [One⁸ / John Cage] (Loren Dempster) (0:19-43:59) -- Audience applause and recording silence (44:00-47:43) -- Begins abruptly, Andrea Snyder of Dance/USA introduces post-performance talk (47:44-48:57) -- Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg speak about their collaboration on Antic meet (1958), including meeting in 1958 at Connecticut College School of Dance; brief anecdotes of [Merce Cunningham Dance] Company tours in the early 1960's; more anecdotes from touring the United States in Cunningham's VW bus (49:07-59:02) -- Andrea Snyder introduces David Vaughan, and the audience question and answer session (59:28-1:00:11) -- Unidentified audience member asks question [nearly inaudible] and Snyder re-states the question (1:00:12-1:01:40) -- David Vaughan responds with an anecdote from Morton Feldman, ends abruptly (1:01:41-1:02:28) -- Recording silence (1:02:29-1:03:38)
- Streaming file 2, Apr. 7 and Apr. 8: Interscape [One⁸ / John Cage] (Loren Dempster) (0:00-38:30) -- Recording silence (38:31-48:24) -- Interscape [One⁸ / John Cage] (Loren Dempster) (48:25-1:33:51)
- Call Number
- *LTD-A 875
- OCLC
- 897513777
- Author
Cage, John, composer.
- Title
One⁸ : performances of Interscape, and, post-performance talk by Merce Cunningham and Robert Rauschenberg at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., 2000-04-06/08 / music by John Cage.
- Production
April 6-8, 2000.
- Playing Time
010338 013449
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Performer
Loren Dempster, cello.
- Event
Recorded in performances at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in, Washington, District of Columbia, 2000 April 6-8.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (2 audio DAT cassettes (159 minutes total) : digital, .3209 ips, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, two track, stereo) in *LTD-A 875.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from two original DAT cassettes by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Cunningham, Merce, speaker.
Dempster, Loren, instrumentalist.
Rauschenberg, Robert, 1925-2008, speaker.
Snyder, Andrea, moderator.
Vaughan, David, 1924- speaker.
Container of (work): Cage, John. One⁸.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (U.S.)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Interscape (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTD-A 875