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Celebrating John Ashbery works & process at the Guggenheim

Title: Celebrating John Ashbery [videorecording] : works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].
Publication: 2001.

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Description

1 videodisc (NTSC) (76 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

For this program, five composers were commissioned to set music for one vocalist and one instrumentalist to a John Ashbery poem. A panel discussion with Ashbery and the composers is interspersed with performances of the musical pieces and readings by the poet. Ashbery discusses the influence of music by John Cage, Elliott Carter, and other modern composers on his work, and also the affinity he feels for certain visual artists, including outsider artist Henry Darger, whose work inspired his book Girls on the run. The composers discuss their individual approaches to Ashbery's poems, with Zorn providing more of a musical response than a traditional setting to his chosen section of Girls on the run.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of Works & process at the Guggenheim, Mary Sharp Cronson, producer.

Series Statement

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 162

Uniform Title

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Video.
Music.
Readings.

Credits (note)

Poems by John Ashbery.

Event (note)

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on May 13 and 14, 2001. (Viewer copy is May 13, 2001.)

Funding (note)

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Contents

X, from Girls on the run / music by John Zorn ; performed by Elizabeth Farnum (soprano) and Thomas Kolor (percussion) -- Posture of unease, from Forgiveness / setting by Peter Lieberson ; performed by Chris Pedro Trakas (baritone) and Fred Sherry (cello) -- At North Farm, from A wave / setting by Lee Hyla ; performed by Mary Nessinger (mezzo-soprano) and Tim Smith (bass clarinet) -- Stanzas before time, from Your name here / setting by Charles Wuorinen ; performed by Neil Farrell (tenor) and June Han (harp) -- A poem of unrest, from Can you hear, bird / setting by Ricky Ian Gordon ; performed by Ricky Ian Gordon.

Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1166

OCLC

85456024

Title

Celebrating John Ashbery [videorecording] : works & process at the Guggenheim / [performance series producer, Mary Sharp Cronson].

Imprint

2001.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Series

Works & process at the Guggenheim collection ; 162

Works and process at the Guggenheim.

Credits

Poems by John Ashbery.

Performer

Musical settings performed by vocalists Elizabeth Farnum, Chris Pedro Trakas, Mary Nessinger, Neil Farrell, and Ricky Ian Gordon, and by instrumentalists Thomas Kolor, Fred Sherry, Tim Smith, June Han, and Ricky Ian Gordon. Readings: John Ashbery. Panelists: John Ashbery, John Zorn, Peter Lieberson, Lee Hyla, Charles Wuorinen, and Ricky Ian Gordon. Moderator: Sarah Rothenberg.

Event

Recorded as part of the Works & process performance series at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, on May 13 and 14, 2001. (Viewer copy is May 13, 2001.)

Funding

With support from The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation, digitization and DVD authoring of the Works & process at the Guggenheim video archive was done by StreamingCulture at the Graduate Center of The City University of New York.

Added Author

Zorn, John, 1953- composer (expression)

Farnum, Elizabeth, vocalist.

Kolor, Thomas, instrumentalist.

Lieberson, Peter, 1946-2011, composer (expression)

Trakas, Chris Pedro, vocalist.

Sherry, Fred, instrumentalist.

Hyla, Lee, 1952-2014, composer (expression)

Nessinger, Mary, vocalist.

Smith, Tim, clarinetist, instrumentalist.

Wuorinen, Charles, composer (expression)

Farrell, Neil, vocalist.

Han, June, instrumentalist.

Gordon, Ricky Ian, composer (expression)

Gordon, Ricky Ian, performer.

Ashbery, John, 1927-2017, interviewee.

Zorn, John, 1953- interviewee.

Lieberson, Peter, 1946-2011, interviewee.

Hyla, Lee, 1952-2014, interviewee.

Wuorinen, Charles, interviewee.

Gordon, Ricky Ian, interviewee.

Rothenberg, Sarah, moderator.

Cronson, Mary Sharp, film producer.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Research Call Number

*MGZIDVD 5-1166

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