About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items News report on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company premiere of Field and figures

News report on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company premiere of Field and figures: and the 15th anniversary of host Bob Edwards, on Morning edition, National Public Radio. 1989-02-17, No. 890217, 1989-02-17

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound

  • Lincoln Center 25th anniversary
  • Piney woods money mama
  • Polish music history
  • Kamernyĭ Orkestr Akademicheskogo Teatra opery i baleta goroda Kazani
  • On the picket line
  • Signature
  • Wynton Marsalis
  • Leonard Bernstein in Salzau, 1987
  • Lewis Archibald interviews Ingrid Bergman, 1973
  • M'loch
  • Me and Juliet
  • Edison white wax "Perfected" era cylinders
  • The Mapleson Cylinders
  • Leida Snow reports on New York City Salutes Theater Week
  • Arthur Bell interviews Rosalind Russell, 1974-09-23
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

This Item

News report on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company premiere of Field and figures

View this item elsewhere:

Title
News report on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company premiere of Field and figures: and the 15th anniversary of host Bob Edwards, on Morning edition, National Public Radio. 1989-02-17, No. 890217, 1989-02-17
Additional title: Morning edition
Names
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Cunningham, Merce (Interviewee)
Edwards, Bob, 1947- (Host)
Friedman, Martin, 1925-2016 (Commentator)
Kerr, Euan (Reporter)
Lent, Patricia (Commentator)
Stamberg, Susan, 1938- (Host)
Minnesota Public Radio (Broadcaster)
National Public Radio (U.S.) (Broadcaster)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1989-02-17
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTC-A 1417
Topics
Cunningham, Merce
Edwards, Bob, 1947-
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Field and figures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
RainForest (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Genres
spoken word
Radio programs
Notes
Content: Title, date and location provided by cataloger based on typed note on original cassette and container, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
Content: Typed note on original container and cassette: "NPR- Morning Edition: Merce Cunningham ; #890217 ; ℗ 1989 ; National Public Radio".
Venue: Recorded for and broadcast on NPR in, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1989 [February 17].
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Physical Description
Audiocassette
Extent: 1 audiocassette (8 minutes) : analog
Sound quality is good.
Description
Program host, Bob Edwards, introduces Merce Cunningham and the premiere of Field and figures (1989) in Minneapolis by his [Merce Cunningham Dance] Company; Euan Kerr reports from a Company rehearsal; Kerr speaks briefly about Cunningham's career, choreography, and the commission from the Walker Arts Center to create his Fabrications (1987), and, Field and figures; Martin Friedman of the Walker Arts Center speaks about Cunningham's use of technique in his choreography; more on the choreography of Field and figures; Patricia Lent speaks about the rhythm of the dance phrases in Field and figures; Cunningham speaks briefly about the reconstruction of his RainForest (1968); Susan Stamberg wishes Bob Edwards a happy 15th anniversary with National Public Radio and briefly reviews his career, including a clip of Edwards' in an aircheck from his early career; program announcements.
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 913890791
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20732297
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a6dead40-b8f3-0133-d0ed-60f81dd2b63c
Rights Statement
This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).

Item timeline of events

  • 1989: Created
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "News report on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company premiere of Field and figures" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1989. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab6a1e00-b8f3-0133-6b2c-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "News report on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company premiere of Field and figures" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 16, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab6a1e00-b8f3-0133-6b2c-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1989). News report on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company premiere of Field and figures Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab6a1e00-b8f3-0133-6b2c-60f81dd2b63c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab6a1e00-b8f3-0133-6b2c-60f81dd2b63c | title= (sound recording) News report on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company premiere of Field and figures, (1989)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=April 16, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

News report on the Merce Cunningham Dance Company premiere of Field and figures