- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (165 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Event (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Title, dates, location and speakers provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original DAT cassettes, audition and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
- Handwritten note on original DAT cassette no. 1: "Paris Event ; 8-13-02". Handwritten note on original DAT cassette no. 2: "Paris Event ; 8-13-02".
- Contains the music and accompaniment for two of Merce Cunningham's Events; includes John Cage, Merce Cunningham and David Vaughan reading selections from John Cage's Silence: lectures and writings (Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press, 1961), and A year from Monday: new lectures and writings (Middletown, Conn., Wesleyan University Press, 1967). These readings are the original accompaniment for Merce Cunningham's How to pass, kick, fall and run (1965).
- Sound quality is good.
- Donor's inventory numbers: D402, and, D343.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Language (note)
- Speakers read aloud mostly in English, with some of the readings in French.
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Contents
- Streaming file 1, Aug. 13: Event [no. 695] (0:00-1:20:21) -- [Readings to accompany excerpt from How to pass, kick, fall and run] (57:21-1:20:21) -- Recording silence (1:20:22-1:22:37)
- Streaming file 2, Aug. 14: Event [no. 696] (0:00-1:22:18) -- [Readings to accompany excerpt from How to pass, kick, fall and run] (59:08-1:22:18)
- Call Number
- *LTD-A 883
- OCLC
- 897514133
- Title
Event no. 695, and, no. 696 : performances at the [Théâtre du Palais-Royale] in Paris, 2002-08-13/14.
- Production
August 13 and 14, 2002.
- Playing Time
012237 012218
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Performer
[John Cage, Merce Cunningham, and David Vaughan], speakers.
- Event
Recorded in performances at the [Théâtre du Palais-Royale] in, Paris, France, 2002 August 13 and 14.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (2 audio DAT cassettes (165 minutes total) : digital, .3209 ips, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, two track, stereo) in *LTD-A 883.
- Language
Speakers read aloud mostly in English, with some of the readings in French.
- 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
Cage, John, author.
Cage, John, speaker.
Cunningham, Merce, speaker.
Vaughan, David, 1924- speaker.
Théâtre du Palais-Royal (Paris, France)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Event (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTD-A 883