Bill Obrecht

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Title

Bill Obrecht

Collection

Dance Theater Workshop Video Archive

Names

Obrecht, Bill (Composer)
Elson, Steve (Musician)
Grossman, Kory (Musician)
Ruyle, Bill (Musician)
Trigg, William (Musician)
Elderkin, Antoinette (Lighting designer)
Manhattan Marimba Quartet (Performer)
Dance Theater Workshop (Presenter)
Video D Studios (Videographer)
Obrecht, Bill (Instrumentalist)

Date / Origin

Date Created: 1991-04-15

Table Of Contents

1. Subway (premiere) (ca. 12 min.) / work for reeds, brass, percussion ; includes b film. |||| Ghost notes (premiere) (ca. 19 min.) / performed by Bill Obrecht (wind controller), Bill Cammarota (piano). |||| 2. Suite for marimba quartet (1988) (ca. 17 min.) / erroneously dated April 12 on frame ; performed by Manhattan Marimba Quartet: Kory Grossman, James Preiss, Bill Ruyle, William Trigg. |||| March Hare club for men (premiere) (ca. 5 min.) / work for piano, reeds, brass, percussion.

Library Location

Jerome Robbins Dance Division
Shelf locator: *MGZIDF 8421

Subjects

Dance Theater Workshop
Music -- United States -- 20th century

Genres

Filmed Performances
Music

Notes

Content: Program title on accompanying house program: Ghost notes.
Creation/Production Credits: Lighting, Antoinette Elderkin.
Performers: Musicians: Bill Obrecht with Bill Cammarota (piano), Vincent Chancey (French horn), Steve Elson (saxophone), Pam Fleming (trumpet), Aaron Heich (oboe, saxophone), Dan Levine (trombone).
Venue: Videotaped in performance at Dance Theater Workshop's Bessie Schönberg Theater, New York, as part of the Bands on the Run series, on April 15, 1991, by Video D Studios.

Physical Description

Extent: 2 videocassettes (U-matic) (53 min. total) : sound, color with black and white sequence ; 3/4 in.

Abstract

Concert of instrumental music ; no dance content.

Languages

English

Identifiers

RLIN/OCLC: NYPY99-F530
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14430528
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): b10b2990-a742-0138-2535-025147d9add0

Rights

The copyright and related rights status of this item has been reviewed by The New York Public Library, but we were unable to make a conclusive determination as to the copyright status of the item. 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.

Type Of Resource

Moving Image

Cite this item

MLA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Bill Obrecht" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1991. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b10b2990-a742-0138-2535-025147d9add0

APA format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. (1991). Bill Obrecht Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b10b2990-a742-0138-2535-025147d9add0

Chicago/Turabian Format

Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library. "Bill Obrecht" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/b10b2990-a742-0138-2535-025147d9add0

Wikipedia citation

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