Title provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on the original container, reel hub, and tape leader.
Handwritten note on the original container: "Walkaround time ; special 60/50 Hz ; Ladies: 1 & 3 Bev & Carolyn ; 2 & 4 Meg & Sandy". Handwritten note on the original reel hub: "WAT 60/50". Handwritten note on the original tape leader: "David Behrman: "...for nearly an hour..." ; 1) niagara 2) cars 3) litanies 4) bev & carolyn ; QTRTRK STEREO 7.5 ips".
Contains music for Merce Cunningham's Walkaround time (1968).
Donor's inventory number: R075.
Access (note)
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Event (note)
Recorded in an unidentified location for use in performances of Walkaround time.
Source (note)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
Linking entry (note)
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Author
Behrman, David, composer.
Title
For nearly an hour : music for Walkaround time / music by David Behrman.
Production
[probably 1968]
Playing time
002451
Type of content
performed music
Type of medium
audio
Type of carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
Digital file characteristics
audio file
Performer
Carolyn Brown, Beverly Emmons, Meg Harper, Sandra Neels, vocalists.
Event
Recorded in an unidentified location for use in performances of Walkaround time.
Original version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (25 minutes) : analog, 6 1/4 ips, quarter track and four track, stereo ; 5 in. rewound onto an archival 7 in. reel) in *LT-7-A 2424.
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 August 26 and October 2, 2014.
The archival original recording was produced at a non standard speed, 16.66% faster than 7.5 ips, for the purpose of being played in locations where the playback equipment uses a 50 Hz standard in order to compensate for pitch. The deck used by NYPL in the transfer did not have variable speed control thus the 4-track section, Ladies, was transferred at 7.5 ips for the preservation master and the pitch was lowered digitally to approximate 6.25 ips in the edit master file.