August pace, Neighbors, Breakers, Quartet, and excerpt of Five stone wind: performances at City Center and other unidentified locations, 1991-03-14

Item data

Title

August pace, Neighbors, Breakers, Quartet, and excerpt of Five stone wind: performances at City Center and other unidentified locations, 1991-03-14

Collection

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Names

Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Miller, Rob (Robert E.) (Recording engineer)
Driscoll, John, 1947- (Composer)
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- (Composer)
Pugliese, Michael (Composer)
Tudor, David, 1926-1996 (Composer)
Cage, John (Composer)
City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.) (Host)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1991-03-14 (Questionable)

Table Of Contents

Streaming file 1: [August pace "Peace talks" / Michael Pugliese] (0:00-26:43) -- [Neighbors "Streams" / Takehisa Kosugi] (27:24-51:27) -- [Breakers "Cybermesa" / John Driscoll] (52:28-1:16:39) -- Audience applause; brief recording cut (1:16:35-1:17:44) -- Quartet ["Sextet for seven" / David Tudor] (1:17:45-1:37:39) -- Audience applause (1:37:39-1:39:24) -- Begins abruptly, [Five stone wind "Five stone wind"], excerpt / John Cage and David Tudor] (1:39:25-1:55:05)

Library Location

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTD-A 626

Subjects

Aleatory music
Electronic and violin music
Electronic music
Modern dance music
Musique concrète
Percussion music
Vocalises
Driscoll, John, 1947- Cybermesa
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- Streams
Pugliese, Michael. Peace talks
Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Sextet for seven
Cage, John. Five stone wind

Genres

Music
Live Sound Recordings

Notes

Content: Title provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original DAT cassette, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust. Date provided by cataloger based on the DAT recording timecode; some recordings are likely to have been recorded after the initial recording date as the works captured were created several years later.
Content: Handwritten note on original DAT cassette: "Quartet - CD poss. Rec. by R. Miller". Sticker affixed to original DAT cassette: "Original Master".
Content: Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's August pace (1989), Neighbors (1991), Breakers (1994), Quartet (1982), and excerpts of the music for Cunningham's Five stone wind (1988).
Venue: Recorded in performance at [City Center], New York, New York, [March 14, 1991].
Venue: Recorded in performance at unidentified locations.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.

Physical Description

Extent: 1 audio DAT cassette (115 minutes) : digital, .3209 ips, 44.1 kHz, 16 bit, two track, stereo
Sound quality is mostly good; there is audience applause at the ends of the works and the volume is slightly low overall.

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: 911141635
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20643011
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 9a4442a0-b8c6-0133-cd13-60f81dd2b63c

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Type Of Resource

Sound Recording

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