- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (28 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Myles Dungan interviews Merce Cunningham [recording gap, 0:15-0:36]; topics include: the inspiration for Roaratorio (1983), especially John Cage's composition [of the same title] that included live Irish musicians, Summerspace (1958) and collaborating with Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol's pillows for RainForest (1968), creating Biped (1999) with the use of computers, Cunningham's use of LifeForms choreographic software, collaborating with Rauschenberg on Interscape (2000), Cunningham's continued curiosity of dance, learning tap dance as a child and his ongoing connection to Vaudeville dancing, his being a dancer in the Martha Graham Dance Company, Cunningham's first shared performance with Cage in New York and Cage's influence; program concludes, ca. 24:31; radio commercials, ca. 24:52-27:27.
- Uniform Title
- Rattlebag (Radio program)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Radio interviews.
- Note
- Contains a radio interview of Merce Cunningham with host Myles Dungan on Rattlebag, RTÉ Radio; correlating to the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performances at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin for the Dublin Dance Festival, May 8-11, 2002.
- Title, date and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original container and cassette, and audition.
- Handwritten notes on original container and cassette: "Merce Cunningham interviewed by Myles Dungan ; Rattlebag RTÉ ; 8th May '02 - Broadcast ; International Dance Festival Ireland May 8/26".
- Sound quality is mostly good; the speakers are clear but the recording was taken at a high volume which occasionally distorts the voices.
- 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 1436
- OCLC
- 913898862
- Author
Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.
- Title
Interview with Merce Cunningham on Rattlebag (Radio program), RTÉ Radio, 2002-05-08.
- Publisher
May 8, 2002.
- Playing Time
002727
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Broadcast in, Dublin, Ireland, 2002 May 8.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (28 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1436.
- 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.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Dungan, Myles, interviewer.
Raidió Teilifís Éireann, broadcaster.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Rattlebag (Radio program)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1436