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Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet: performances at City Center, 1990-03

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Title
Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet: performances at City Center, 1990-03
Additional title: Cargo X (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Additional title: Field and figures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Additional title: Quartet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Names
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Miller, Rob (Robert E.) (Recording engineer)
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968 (Creator)
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- (Composer)
Tcherepnin, Ivan (Composer)
Tudor, David, 1926-1996 (Composer)
City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.) (Event place)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1990-03-21 - 1990-03-24 (Questionable)
Table of Contents
Streaming file 1, side a: Field and figures "Creative act" / [Ivan Tcherepnin] (0:00-29:01) -- Audience applause (29:02-30:18) |||| Streaming file 2, side b: Cargo X ["Spectra" / Takehisa Kosugi] (0:00-21:05) -- Audience applause (20:05-21:47) |||| Streaming file 3, side b: Quartet ["Sextet for seven" / David Tudor] (0:00-18:15) -- Audience applause (18:16-20:12)
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTC-A 1236
Topics
Aleatory music
Electronic music
Modern dance music
Percussion music
Vocalises
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. Works. Selections
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- Spectra
Tcherepnin, Ivan. Creative act
Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Sextet for seven
Genres
Music
Live sound recordings
Notes
Content: Title, dates and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original cassette, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
Content: Handwritten note on original cassette, side A: "Creative Act, City Center 1990 ; Rec. by RM [Rob Miller]". Handwritten note on original cassette, side B: "Cargo X, Quartet".
Content: Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Field and figures (1989), Cargo X (1989), and, Quartet (1982).
Content: The music for Field and figures, Ivan Tcherepnin's Creative act: Electronically Varied Heterothonies on a Text by Marcel Duchamp, contains spoken short phrases of text by Marcel Duchamp in English.
Numbering: Donor's inventory number: C036.
Venue: Recorded in performances at City Center, New York, New York, 1990 [March 21 and 24th?].
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Physical Description
Audiocassette
Extent: 1 audio cassette (72 minutes) : analog
Sound quality is mostly good; audience applause overlaps the end of Spectra, and the recording volume in the beginning of Sextet for seven is slightly low.
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 904255609
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20539368
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a772d1b0-b889-0133-6479-60f81dd2b63c
Rights Statement
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  • 1990: Created (Approximate)
  • 2024: Found by you!
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1990 - 1990. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab709ba0-b889-0133-d0e8-60f81dd2b63c

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 20, 2024. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab709ba0-b889-0133-d0e8-60f81dd2b63c

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1990 - 1990). Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/ab709ba0-b889-0133-d0e8-60f81dd2b63c

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Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet