- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (17 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Begins abruptly, unidentified speaker introduces the ceremony and Merce Cunningham, ca. 0:00-1:09 ; [recording silence 1:10-1:55] ; speaker continues, ca. 1:56-2:09 ; [applause, recording silence (possible dance demonstration), applause, ca. 2:10-3:43] ; speaker continues, ca. 4:24-5:20 ; [applause and recording silence, ca. 5:21-5:53] ; unidentified speaker awards Merce Cunningham, ca. 5:54-9:50 [low volume due to the speaker's distance from the microphone] ; Merce Cunningham's acceptance speech (in French), ca. 10:23-12:47 ; [applause and background audience sounds, ca. 12:48-17:10].
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Speeches.
- Note
- Contains the Legion d'Honneur award ceremony for Merce Cunningham conducted in French.
- Title, date, and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original cassette and container.
- Handwritten note on original cassette, side a: "Cargo X **** Arles ; Theatre Antique ; July 23, 1989". Handwritten note on original cassette, side b: "Award ceremony MCDC". Handwritten note on original cassette container: "Cargo X ; Theatre Antique ; Arles ; 1988 ; Cargo - Excellent! 11/27/89".
- Sound quality is fair; at times the speakers are difficult to hear (but mostly audible) due to their distance from the recording microphone, and there are long recording silences throughout the recording.
- Side a of the archival original cassette contains a performance recording of Merce Cunningham's Cargo X (1989), and can be streamed at: http://link.nypl.org/C0S-vhnERCKcTuwXRwBL_wX
- Donor's inventory number: C034.
- 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
- *LTC-A 1234
- OCLC
- 904256594
- Author
Légion d'honneur (France)
- Title
Legion d'Honneur award ceremony for Merce Cunningham : including his acceptance speech, at the Festival d'Arles, 1989-07-23.
- Production
July 23, 1989.
- Playing Time
001710
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded in, Arles, France, 1989 July 23.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (38 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1234.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides: C034a, and, C034b.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Cunningham, Merce, speaker.
Théâtre Antique (Arles, France)
Festival d'Arles.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1234