- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 6 streaming audio files (22 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Tango (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Note
- Contains cassette recordings of vocals to be played as components of John Cage's music for Merce Cunningham's Tango (1978).
- Title and vocalist provided by cataloger based on typed notes on original cassettes and containers, audition, and information provided by the John Cage Trust.
- Typed note on original cassette and container no. 1: "Letter to E. S.... ; start 3:27 ; Tango 1- dub set one 8/83". Typed note on original cassette and container no. 2: "Letter to E. S.... ; start at 3:32 ; Tango 2- dub set one 8/83". Typed note on original cassette and container no. 3: "Letter to E. S.... ; start 0:45 ; Tango 3- dub set one 8/83". Typed note on original cassette and container no. 4: "Letter to E. S.... ; start 2:49 ; Tango 4- dub set one 8/83". Typed note on original cassette and container no. 5: "Letter to E. S.... ; start 0:22 ; Tango 5a- dub set one 8/83". Typed note on original cassette and container no. 6: "Letter to E. S.... ; start 0:22 ; Tango 5b- dub set one 8/83".
- Sound quality is mostly good.
- Donor's inventory numbers: C217 -- C222.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Indexed In (note)
- John Cage Trust website, accessed July 15, 2015
- Event (note)
- Dubbed from unidentified original recordings.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LTC-A 1667
- OCLC
- 913834539
- Title
Letter to Erik Satie : dub set of voice recordings used in the music for Tango, 1983-08.
- Production
August, 1983.
- Playing Time
000113 000132 000602 000240 000354 000544
- Type of Content
performed music
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Indexed In:
John Cage Trust website, accessed July 15, 2015, Database of works: Letter to Erik Satie, http://johncage.org/pp/John-Cage-Work-Detail.cfm?work_ID=280
- Performer
[John Cage, vocalist].
- Event
Dubbed from unidentified original recordings.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival originals : (6 audio cassettes (22 minutes total) : analog) in *LTC-A 1667.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from six original analog cassettes by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Related to (work): Cage, John. Letter to Erik Satie.
Cage, John, singer.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Related to (work) : Tango (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1667