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Book of days

Title: Book of days [videorecording] / produced by Tatge/Lasseur Productions, Inc., The House Foundation for the Arts, and La Sept in association with Alive from Off Center ; produced by Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lasseur ; conceived and directed by Meredith Monk ; music by Meredith Monk.
Publication: c1988.

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Description

1 streaming video file (57 min., 20 sec.) : sd., col. and b&w; 3/4 in.
1 videocassette (U-matic, NTSC) (57 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ;

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Meredith Monk.

Genre/Form

Motion pictures.
Dance.
Music.
Video.

Note

Television version. For the full version, which is 74 min. long, see *MGZIC 9-4145 Book of days.

Access (note)

Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Credits (note)

Director of photography, Jerry Pantzer ; art direction and costumes, Yoshio Yabara ; editing, Girish Bhargava ; production design, Jean Vincent Puzos ; dramaturgy, Tone Blevins.

Performer (note)

Jewish community: Toby Newman (young girl), Pablo Vela (grandfather), Lanny Harrison (mother), Daniel Ira Sverdlik (father), Andrea Goodman (aunt), Joshua Sippen (uncle), Karin Levitas (eldest daughter), Hannah Pearl Walcott (youngest daughter), Gerd Wameling (traveling storyteller) ; Christian community: Gail Turner (farm woman), Mieke van Hoek (merchant and mourning woman), Rob McBrien (merchant), Robert Een (soldier), Lucas Hoving (physician), Greger Hansen (traveling monk), Wayne Hankin (traveling musician), Stéphane Quemerais (musician's son), Ruth Füglistaller (plague victim), Susan Podd, Frederieke Taylor, Micki Wesson (villagers), Meredith Monk (madwoman) ; McBrien (dance of death) ; Nicky Paraiso (man in diner) ; Around the world 1349: Naaz Hosseini (Persian woman); Ching Gonzalez (Inca); Pura Le Fund, Nikya Kuan, Leland Kuan (Native Americans); Yoshio Yabara (Japanese man); Ronald Dabney, Allison Easter, Donna Fields (Africans).
Voices of interviewers: Sara Fishko, Steve Post ; other voices: Leah Foster, Roger Babb, Bob Rosen, Beatrice Roth, Louise Smith.

Call Number

*MGZIDF 8167

OCLC

26778459
NYPY97-F622

Title

Book of days [videorecording] / produced by Tatge/Lasseur Productions, Inc., The House Foundation for the Arts, and La Sept in association with Alive from Off Center ; produced by Catherine Tatge and Dominique Lasseur ; conceived and directed by Meredith Monk ; music by Meredith Monk.

Imprint

c1988.

Cast

Jewish community: Toby Newman (young girl), Pablo Vela (grandfather), Lanny Harrison (mother), Daniel Ira Sverdlik (father), Andrea Goodman (aunt), Joshua Sippen (uncle), Karin Levitas (eldest daughter), Hannah Pearl Walcott (youngest daughter), Gerd Wameling (traveling storyteller) ; Christian community: Gail Turner (farm woman), Mieke van Hoek (merchant and mourning woman), Rob McBrien (merchant), Robert Een (soldier), Lucas Hoving (physician), Greger Hansen (traveling monk), Wayne Hankin (traveling musician), Stéphane Quemerais (musician's son), Ruth Füglistaller (plague victim), Susan Podd, Frederieke Taylor, Micki Wesson (villagers), Meredith Monk (madwoman) ; McBrien (dance of death) ; Nicky Paraiso (man in diner) ; Around the world 1349: Naaz Hosseini (Persian woman); Ching Gonzalez (Inca); Pura Le Fund, Nikya Kuan, Leland Kuan (Native Americans); Yoshio Yabara (Japanese man); Ronald Dabney, Allison Easter, Donna Fields (Africans).

Voices of interviewers: Sara Fishko, Steve Post ; other voices: Leah Foster, Roger Babb, Bob Rosen, Beatrice Roth, Louise Smith.

Performer

Music performed by Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble: Robert Een, John Eppler, Ching Gonzalez, Andrea Goodman, Wayne Hankin, Naaz Hosseini, Meredith Monk, Nicky Paraiso, Nurit Tilles, and Johanna Arnold, Joan Barber, Timothy Sawyer ; conductor, Wayne Hankin.

Credits

Director of photography, Jerry Pantzer ; art direction and costumes, Yoshio Yabara ; editing, Girish Bhargava ; production design, Jean Vincent Puzos ; dramaturgy, Tone Blevins.

Restricted Access

Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZIC 9-5266

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Local Subject

Motion pictures. Book of days.

Added Author

Monk, Meredith, conceptor.

Monk, Meredith, director.

Monk, Meredith, composer.

Monk, Meredith, performer.

Yabara, Yoshio. Designer. Costume designer. Performer

Newman, Toby. Performer

Vela, Pablo. Performer

Harrison, Lanny. Performer

Sverdlik, Daniel. Performer

Goodman, Andrea, 1953-. Performer

Sippen, Joshua. Performer

Levitas, Karin. Performer

Walcott, Hannah Pearl. Performer

Wameling, Gerd. Performer

Turner, Gail. Performer

Hoek, Mieke van. Performer

McBrien, Rob. Performer

Een, Robert. Performer

Hoving, Lucas. Performer

Hansen, Greger. Performer

Hankin, Wayne. Conductor

Hankin, Wayne. Performer

Quemerais, Stéphane. Performer

Füglistaller, Ruth. Performer

Wesson, Micki. Performer

Paraiso, Nicky. Performer

Hosseini, Naaz. Performer

Gonzalez, Ching. Performer

Dabney, Ronald. Performer

Easter, Allison. Performer

Babb, Roger. Performer

Rosen, Robert. Performer

Smith, Louise, 1955- Performer

Tilles, Nurit. Performer

Puzos, Jean Vincent. Designer

Blevins, Tone.

Lasseur, Dominique. Producer

Tatge, Catherine. Producer

Pantzer, Jerry, director of photography.

Bhargava, Girish. Film editor

Tatge/Lasseur Productions.

House Foundation for the Arts.

SEPT (Television station : France)

DHCA.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDF 8167

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