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Art failures : music and audio tracks

Title
Art failures : music and audio tracks, 1983.
Author
Epstein, Robin (Playwright)
Publication
1983.

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Additional Authors
  • Schulman, Sarah, 1958-
  • Russell, Mark, 1954-
  • Epstein, Robin (Playwright)
  • Epstein, Florence
  • Willthorp, Marianne
  • Kottke, Leo
  • Bryant, Jimmy (Singer)
  • Nixon, Marni
  • Brocksmith, Roy, 1945-2001
  • Kottke, Leo.
  • Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990.
  • Williams, John, 1932-
  • Conti, Bill.
  • Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950.
  • Container of (work): Rolling Stones. Some girls. Shattered. Selections.
  • Container of (work): Bee Gees. Saturday night fever. Stayin' alive.
  • Rolling Stones, performer.
  • Bee Gees, performer.
  • Kinks (Musical group), performer.
  • London Symphony Orchestra, performer.
Found In
More Fire! Productions records, 1980-2006.
Description
1 audio disc (13:36) : digital, mono; 4 3/4 in.
Summary
This is the audio from the 1983 play "Art failures", written by Robin Epstein and Sarah Schulman.
Uniform Title
  • Art failures. Selections
  • West Side story (Motion picture)
  • Saturday night fever (Motion picture)
  • Star wars (Motion picture)
  • Rocky (Motion picture)
Alternative Title
  • Art failures.
  • Staying alive.
  • More Fire! Productions records.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Demo recordings.
Source (note)
  • Robin Epstein;
Linking Entry (note)
  • Separated from the More Fire! Productions records; for papers, see the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, *T-Mss 2008-003; for videocassettes and DVD transfers ("Art failures" (NCOV 3734), see the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Contents
Track 1. [Excerpt] Shattered (from 1978 album "Some girls") / Rolling Stones (0:02-0:40) -- Jerry D. Angelis's best used car ad (Mark Russell, voice) (0:44-1:00) -- Diner sound effects (1:01-1:17) -- [Excerpt] The cradle to the grave (from the 1972 album "Greenhouse") / L. Kottke -- Robin's telephone answering machine (Robin Epstein, voice) ; [Excerpt] Somewhere (from the 1961 musical film "West Side Story") (Jimmy Bryant and Marni Nixon, vocals) / L. Bernstein ; Mom's phone message (Florence Epstein, voice) (2:01-3:24) -- [Excerpt] Stayin' alive (part 1) / Bee Gees (3:25-4:01) ; Artistic associate no. 1 commentary ("I love your work and I'd love to change it. Don't you have any European gay men in your group?") (Marianne Willthorp, voice) (4:02-4:08) ; [Excerpt] Stayin' alive (part 2) / Bee Gees (4:10-4:31) ; Artistic associate no. 2 commentary (...I'm sorry, but you are not suitably right for our space") (Mark Russell, voice) (4:32-4:38) ; [Excerpt to end] Stayin' alive (part 3) / Bee Gees (4:38-7:59) -- [Excerpt] Rats (from 1970 album "Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, part one") / The Kinks (8:00-8:40) -- "A new art revolution" report (Marianne Willthorp, voice) (8:46-8:53) -- Star wars main theme (from the 1977 motion picture "Star wars") / J. Williams (8:54-10:13) --Start of "Firing line" show (Mark Russell, voice) (10:14-10:43) -- [Excerpt] Gonna fly now (Theme from Rocky) (from the 1976 film "Rocky") / B. Conti (10:44-11:44) -- Ballad of Mack the Knife: Reprise (from the 1976 Public Theater musical revival "The Threepenny Opera") / K. Weill (11:52-13:36).
Call Number
*LDC 52656
OCLC
872588133
Author
Epstein, Robin (Playwright), author.
Title
Art failures : music and audio tracks, 1983.
Production
1983.
Playing Time
001336
Type of Content
performed music
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
audio disc
Performer
Mark Russell (Jerry D. Angelis, Artistic associate no. 2, and "Firing line" host) (2nd, 6th and 10th works), Marianne Willthorp (Artistic associate no. 1, Reporter) (6th and 8th works), Robin Epstein (Phone message) (5th work), and Florence Epstein (Robin's Mom on phone message) (5th work), taped voices ; The Rolling Stones, (1st work) ; Leo Kottke, vocals and guitar (4th work) ; Jimmy Bryant and Marni Nixon, vocals (5th work) ; The Bee Gees (1977's Saturday Night fever: "Stayin' alive") (6th work) ; The Kinks (7th work) ; London Symphony Orchestra (9th work) ; Bill Conti's Orchestra (?) (10th work) ; Roy Brocksmith (Ballad Singer), vocals (11th work) ; with unidentified orchestras and sounds.
Event
Demo recording New York, N. Y. 1983.
Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette : analog, mono) in *LTC-A 999.
Linking Entry
Separated from the More Fire! Productions records; for papers, see the Billy Rose Theatre Collection, *T-Mss 2008-003; for videocassettes and DVD transfers ("Art failures" (NCOV 3734), see the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive.
Local Note
Preservation file: (1 audio file : digital, WAV file, 96 kHz, 24 bit), in long term storage, Digital Library Processing server [myh_ltca999_f01_pm.WAV].
Additional information of the play comes from Robin Epstein's website (http://www.robinepstein.com/Art_Failures.html).
"More Fire! also commented on lesbian invisibility in the burgeoning arts scene ... In "Art failures', Robin and Sarah shop around their play, a lesbian take-off on Harvey Fierstein's Tony-award-winning play 'Torch song trilogy', to downtown theaters that foster new work, including La MaMa and The Public. The work is well-received, but the artistic associates are uninterested in producing a lesbian play. One artistic associate declares, 'I love your work and I'd love to change it. Don't you have any European gay men in your group?'"--Sloan, Lisa. More Fire!: Robin Epstein and Dorothy Cantwell and the lesbian theatre scene in the East Village in the 80s and 90s. Newsletter of the UCLA Center for the Study of Women (Winter 2014), p. 14.
Source
Gift; Robin Epstein; *T-Mss 2008-003; 2008.
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Added Author
Schulman, Sarah, 1958- author.
Russell, Mark, 1954- actor.
Epstein, Robin (Playwright), actor.
Epstein, Florence, actor.
Willthorp, Marianne, actor.
Kottke, Leo, performer.
Bryant, Jimmy (Singer), performer.
Nixon, Marni, performer.
Brocksmith, Roy, 1945-2001, performer.
Container of (work): Kottke, Leo. Greenhouse. From the cradle to the grave. Selections.
Container of (work): Bernstein, Leonard, 1918-1990. West Side story. Somewhere. Selections.
Container of (work): Williams, John, 1932- Star wars. Main title.
Container of (work): Conti, Bill. Rocky. Gonna fly now. Selections.
Container of (work): Weill, Kurt, 1900-1950. Dreigroschenoper. Selections. English.
Container of (work): Rolling Stones. Some girls. Shattered. Selections.
Container of (work): Bee Gees. Saturday night fever. Stayin' alive.
Rolling Stones, performer.
Bee Gees, performer.
Kinks (Musical group), performer.
London Symphony Orchestra, performer.
Epstein, Robin, (Playwright), donor.
Added Title
West Side story (Motion picture)
Saturday night fever (Motion picture)
Star wars (Motion picture)
Rocky (Motion picture)
Staying alive.
More Fire! Productions records.
Found In:
More Fire! Productions records, 1980-2006.
Research Call Number
*LDC 52656
*LTC-A 999
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