- Additional Authors
- Miller, Rob (Robert E.)
- Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
- Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-
- Tcherepnin, Ivan.
- Tudor, David, 1926-1996.
- City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 3 streaming audio files (72 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Cargo X (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Field and figures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Quartet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Live sound recordings.
- Note
- Title, dates and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original cassette, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
- Handwritten note on original cassette, side A: "Creative Act, City Center 1990 ; Rec. by RM [Rob Miller]". Handwritten note on original cassette, side B: "Cargo X, Quartet".
- Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Field and figures (1989), Cargo X (1989), and, Quartet (1982).
- The music for Field and figures, Ivan Tcherepnin's Creative act: Electronically Varied Heterothonies on a Text by Marcel Duchamp, contains spoken short phrases of text by Marcel Duchamp in English.
- Sound quality is mostly good; audience applause overlaps the end of Spectra, and the recording volume in the beginning of Sextet for seven is slightly low.
- Donor's inventory number: C036.
- 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, side a: Field and figures "Creative act" / [Ivan Tcherepnin] (0:00-29:01) -- Audience applause (29:02-30:18)
- Streaming file 2, side b: Cargo X ["Spectra" / Takehisa Kosugi] (0:00-21:05) -- Audience applause (20:05-21:47)
- Streaming file 3, side b: Quartet ["Sextet for seven" / David Tudor] (0:00-18:15) -- Audience applause (18:16-20:12)
- Call Number
- *LTC-A 1236
- OCLC
- 904255609
- Title
Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet : performances at City Center, 1990-03.
- Production
[March 21 and 24th?], 1990.
- Playing Time
003018 002147 002012
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded in performances at City Center, New York, New York, 1990 [March 21 and 24th?].
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (72 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1236.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; three preservation files were created based on content and cassette sides: C036a -- C036c.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Miller, Rob (Robert E.), recording engineer.
Container of (work): Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. Works. Selections.
Container of (work): Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- Spectra.
Container of (work): Tcherepnin, Ivan. Creative act.
Container of (work): Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Sextet for seven.
City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Music for (work) : Cargo X (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music for (work) : Field and figures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music for (work) : Quartet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1236