Harvey Milk Works & Process at the Guggenheim
- Title
- Harvey Milk [videorecording] : Works & Process at the Guggenheim / performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson ; music by Stewart Wallace ; libretto by Michael Korie.
- Published by
- 1995.
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Status Available by appointment at Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance | FormatMoving image | AccessUse in library | Call number*MGZIDVD 5-1060 | Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Dance |
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- Description
- 1 videodisc (NTSC) (74 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Excerpts from the opera Harvey Milk, based on the life and assassination of politician and gay rights acitivist Harvey Milk, are interspersed with commentary from the general director of the New York City Opera, Christopher Keene, and the composer, librettist, and director of the opera. The panelists discuss the genre of "docu-opera" and the nature of American opera, and the research and writing of Harvey Milk.
- Donor/Sponsor
- Gift of Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.
- Series statement
- Works & Process at the Guggenheim Collection ; 060
- Uniform title
- Works and process at the Guggenheim.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Music.
- Video.
- Call number
- *MGZIDVD 5-1060
- Event (note)
- Recorded as part of the Works & Process performance series at the Auditorium at the Equitable Center, New York City, on Mar. 19, 1995.
- 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.
- Title
- Harvey Milk [videorecording] : Works & Process at the Guggenheim / performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson ; music by Stewart Wallace ; libretto by Michael Korie.
- Imprint
- 1995.
- Country of producing entity
- U.S.
- Series
- Works & Process at the Guggenheim Collection ; 060
- Works and process at the Guggenheim.
- Performer
- Opera excerpts directed by Christopher Alden and performed by Robert Orth (Milk), Bradley Williams (Scott Smith), Gidon Saks (Mayor Moscone), Juliana Gondek (Senator Diane Feinstein). Panelists: Stewart Wallace, Michael Korie, Christopher Alden. Moderator: Christopher Keene.
- Event
- Recorded as part of the Works & Process performance series at the Auditorium at the Equitable Center, New York City, on Mar. 19, 1995.
- 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.
- Added author
- Wallace, Stewart. Composer
- Wallace, Stewart, panelist.
- Korie, Michael, librettist.
- Korie, Michael, panelist.
- Alden, Chris. Director
- Alden, Chris, panelist.
- Orth, Robert (Baritone)
- Williams, Bradley. voc
- Saks, Gidon. voc
- Gondek, Juliana. voc
- Keene, Christopher, 1946-1995. Moderator
- Cronson, Mary Sharp. Producer
- New York City Opera.
- Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
- Research call number
- *MGZIDVD 5-1060