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Radio advertisement for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company : with Tread excerpt.

Title
Radio advertisement for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company : with Tread excerpt.
Publication
[probably 1971]

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Wolff, Christian, 1934-
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Found In
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Description
1 streaming audio file (2 minutes) : digital, mono
Summary
Radio advertisement clips for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company performances at Zellerbach Hall (Berkeley, C.A.) in July, 1971.
Uniform Title
Tread (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Alternative Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Radio commercials.
Note
  • Title and date provided by cataloger based on audition, handwritten notes on original container, and information obtained from the Merce Cunningham Trust.
  • Handwritten note on original container: "From: Gordon Mumma c/o Kirck [private address], Berkeley, Calif[ornia] ; To: Jean Rigg, Cunningham Dance Co. [private address], Brooklyn, N[ew] Y[ork]". Original container is a Robins Tape Mailer with a torn bottom half of an illegible postal stamp.
  • Contains an excerpt of For 1, 2 or 3 people, music by Christian Wolff for Merce Cunningham's Tread (1970).
Access (note)
  • Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Event (note)
  • Recording location and broadcast dates are unidentified.
Source (note)
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
Linking Entry (note)
  • Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Call Number
*LT-7-A 2370
OCLC
890142483
Title
Radio advertisement for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company : with Tread excerpt.
Production
[probably 1971]
Playing Time
000147
Type of Content
spoken word
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Event
Recording location and broadcast dates are unidentified.
Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (2 minutes) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, two track, mono ; 3 in. rewound onto an archival 7 in. reel) in *LT-7-A 2370.
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Local Note
Transferred from original open tape reel by the New York Public Library's Audio and Moving Image Preservation (PAMI) sound engineering staff at the Library for the Performing Arts on June 30, 2014.
Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
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Added Author
Container of (work): Wolff, Christian, 1934- For 1, 2, or 3 people. Selections.
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Added Title
Music for (work) : Tread (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2370
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