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Nixon in China Works & Process at the Guggenheim

Title
Nixon in China [electronic resource] : Works & Process at the Guggenheim / performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson ; performance series co-producer, Tom Roush ; video produced by David Gordon ; video directed by Scott Fraser ; performance directed by Peter Sellars; music by John Adams; libretto by Alice Goodman.
Publication
1986.

Available Online

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Sellars, Peter.
  • Adams, John, 1947-
  • Goodman, Alice.
  • DeMain, John.
  • Feinberg, Alan.
  • Maddalena, James.
  • Sylvan, Sanford.
  • Duykers, John.
  • Cronson, Mary Sharp.
  • Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Description
1 streaming video file (28 min.) : sd., col.
Summary
Excerpts from the opera Nixon in China are interspersed with comments from the creators, who discuss the origin and development of the work; the historical events on which it is based (President Nixon's 1972 trip to China); their artistic goals and views on accessability vs. obscurity in art. Excerpts from the opera include act 1, scene 1 ("handshake aria") and act I, scene 2.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.
Series Statement
Works & Process at the Guggenheim Collection ; 011
Uniform Title
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Subjects
Genre/Form
  • Music.
  • Video.
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Event (note)
  • Recorded as part of the Works & Process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Nov. 2 and 3, 1986.
Funding (note)
  • With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York digitized and authored the DVDs of the video archive of Works & Process at the Guggenheim.
Call Number
*MGZIDF 2851
OCLC
NYPG06-F634
Title
Nixon in China [electronic resource] : Works & Process at the Guggenheim / performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson ; performance series co-producer, Tom Roush ; video produced by David Gordon ; video directed by Scott Fraser ; performance directed by Peter Sellars; music by John Adams; libretto by Alice Goodman.
Imprint
1986.
Country of Producing Entity
U.S.
Series
Works & Process at the Guggenheim Collection ; 011
Works and process at the Guggenheim.
Performer
Interviewees: Peter Sellars, John Adams, Alice Goodman, John DeMain. Excerpts from Nixon in China performed by James Maddalena (Nixon), Sanford Sylvan (Chou En Lai), John Duykers (Mao Tse Tung), James Ramlet (Henry Kissinger). Pianist: Alan Feinberg.
Event
Recorded as part of the Works & Process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on Nov. 2 and 3, 1986.
Funding
With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center, The City University of New York digitized and authored the DVDs of the video archive of Works & Process at the Guggenheim.
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online only at the Library for the Performing Arts.
Local Note
Former call number: *MGZIDVD 5-1011
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Added Author
Sellars, Peter. Director
Sellars, Peter. Interviewee
Adams, John, 1947- composer.
Adams, John, 1947- interviewee.
Adams, John, 1947- Nixon in China.
Goodman, Alice. Librettist
Goodman, Alice. Interviewee
DeMain, John. Conductor
DeMain, John. Interviewee
Feinberg, Alan. Instrumentalist
Maddalena, James. voc
Sylvan, Sanford. voc
Duykers, John. voc
Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 2851
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