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Merce Cunningham at 75 with comments by Kimberly Bartosik : on NPR's Weekend edition (Radio program)

Title
Merce Cunningham at 75 with comments by Kimberly Bartosik : on NPR's Weekend edition (Radio program), 1994 / hosted by Liane Hansen and reported by Karen Michel.
Publication
[April 17, 1994].

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Bartosik, Kimberly
  • Cunningham, Merce
  • Hansen, Liane
  • Michel, Karen
  • Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893.
  • National Public Radio (U.S.), radio producer.
  • WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.), broadcaster.
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Found In
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Description
2 streaming audio files (15 minutes total) : digital, stereo
Summary
  • Side a: Begins abruptly, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's At the ball [Spred' shumnogo bala], performed by an unidentified singer as part of Concerts at the Frick Collection, ca. 0:00-3:01; program host "Manya" gives program credits, ca. 3:02-3:55; [recording break, ca. 4:03]; Try again tomorrow, ca. 4:11-6:45.
  • Side b: Program host [Liane Hansen] introduces Merce Cunningham; Karen Michel reports on Cunningham's career, as a dancer and choreographer; includes interview excerpts of Cunningham as well as of Kimberly Bartosik, dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; other topics include: John Cage, Cunningham's collaborator and life partner, the independence of music and choreography in his works, Cunningham's Ocean (1994), movement charcteristics in Cunningham's choreography, his use of [LifeForms] computer software to choreograph, briefly, the 75th birthday tributes to Cunningham at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center; ends abruptly.
Uniform Title
Weekend edition Sunday (Radio program)
Alternative Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Biographical radio programs.
  • Classical music radio programs.
Note
  • Contains a segment on Merce Cunningham for the Weekend Edition (Radio program) broadcast on NPR.
  • Title, date and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten note affixed to original container and audition.
  • Handwritten note affixed to original container: "NPR - side B".
  • Sound quality is good.
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 1419
OCLC
913892294
Title
Merce Cunningham at 75 with comments by Kimberly Bartosik : on NPR's Weekend edition (Radio program), 1994 / hosted by Liane Hansen and reported by Karen Michel.
Publisher
[April 17, 1994].
Playing Time
000645 000810
Type of Content
performed music
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Event
Broadcast on WNYC FM, New York, NY, [1994 April 17].
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (15 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1419.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by George Blood Audio on March 25, 2015; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides.
Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Connect to:
NYPL Digital Collections
Added Author
Bartosik, Kimberly, commentator.
Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.
Hansen, Liane, host.
Michel, Karen, radio reporter.
Container of (work): Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Romansy. Op. 38, Sredʹ shumnogo bala.
National Public Radio (U.S.), radio producer.
WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.), broadcaster.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Added Title
Weekend edition Sunday (Radio program)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1419
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