Septet, and, Pictures: performance at the Joyce Theater, 1988-03-16
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Title
Septet, and, Pictures: performance at the Joyce Theater, 1988-03-16
Collection
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials
Names
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- (Instrumentalist)
Kubera, Joseph (Instrumentalist)
Pugliese, Michael (Instrumentalist)
Vigeland, Nils (Instrumentalist)
Miller, Rob (Robert E.) (Recording engineer)
Behrman, David (Composer)
Satie, Erik, 1866-1925 (Composer)
Joyce Theater (New York, N.Y.) (Host)
Date / Origin
Date Created: 1988-03-16
Table Of Contents
Streaming file 1: Septet ["Morceaux en forme de poire"] / Erik Satie [(Joseph Kubera, Nils Vigeland)] |||| Streaming file 2: Pictures ["Interspecies smalltalk" / David Behrman (Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese)]
Library Location
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTC-A 1281
Subjects
Aleatory music
Computer music
Piano music (4 hands)
Modern dance music
Genres
Notes
Content: Title, date, performers, and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original cassette and original performance program.
Content: Handwritten note on original cassette, side a: "Septet - E. Satie ; 3/16/88 ; Recorded by R. Miller". Handwritten note on original cassette, side b: "Pictures 3/16/88 ; System only".
Content: Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Septet (1953), and, the computer music part for Pictures (1984).
Numbering: Donor's inventory number: C184.
Performers: [Joseph Kubera, Nils Vigeland, Takehisa Kosugi, Michael Pugliese], musicians.
Venue: Recorded in performance at the Joyce Theater, New York, New York, 1988 March 16.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Source Identifier: Re-transferred from original analog cassette, (due to the poor sound quality), by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on April 24, 2015; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides: myh_ltca1281_v01f01_pm, and, myh_ltca1281_v01f02_pm.
Physical Description
Extent: 1 audiocassette (46 minutes) : analog
Sound quality is mostly good; there is a slight recording hiss in streaming file 1.
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 913796384
NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b20730901
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): c9cf59a0-b8ce-0133-8788-60f81dd2b63c
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Septet, and, Pictures: performance at the Joyce Theater, 1988-03-16" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1988. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c9cf59a0-b8ce-0133-8788-60f81dd2b63c
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1988). Septet, and, Pictures: performance at the Joyce Theater, 1988-03-16 Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c9cf59a0-b8ce-0133-8788-60f81dd2b63c
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Septet, and, Pictures: performance at the Joyce Theater, 1988-03-16" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 12, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/c9cf59a0-b8ce-0133-8788-60f81dd2b63c
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