Research Catalog
Merce Cunningham at 75 with comments by Kimberly Bartosik : on NPR's Weekend edition (Radio program)
- Title
- Merce Cunningham at 75 with comments by Kimberly Bartosik : on NPR's Weekend edition (Radio program), 1994 / hosted by Liane Hansen and reported by Karen Michel.
- Publication
- [April 17, 1994].
Available Online
Details
- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (15 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Side a: Begins abruptly, Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky's At the ball [Spred' shumnogo bala], performed by an unidentified singer as part of Concerts at the Frick Collection, ca. 0:00-3:01; program host "Manya" gives program credits, ca. 3:02-3:55; [recording break, ca. 4:03]; Try again tomorrow, ca. 4:11-6:45.
- Side b: Program host [Liane Hansen] introduces Merce Cunningham; Karen Michel reports on Cunningham's career, as a dancer and choreographer; includes interview excerpts of Cunningham as well as of Kimberly Bartosik, dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; other topics include: John Cage, Cunningham's collaborator and life partner, the independence of music and choreography in his works, Cunningham's Ocean (1994), movement charcteristics in Cunningham's choreography, his use of [LifeForms] computer software to choreograph, briefly, the 75th birthday tributes to Cunningham at the Museum of Modern Art and Lincoln Center; ends abruptly.
- Uniform Title
- Weekend edition Sunday (Radio program)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographical radio programs.
- Classical music radio programs.
- Note
- Contains a segment on Merce Cunningham for the Weekend Edition (Radio program) broadcast on NPR.
- Title, date and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten note affixed to original container and audition.
- Handwritten note affixed to original container: "NPR - side B".
- Sound quality is good.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Source (note)
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
- Linking Entry (note)
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Call Number
- *LTC-A 1419
- OCLC
- 913892294
- Title
- Merce Cunningham at 75 with comments by Kimberly Bartosik : on NPR's Weekend edition (Radio program), 1994 / hosted by Liane Hansen and reported by Karen Michel.
- Publisher
- [April 17, 1994].
- Playing Time
- 000645 000810
- Type of Content
- performed musicspoken word
- Type of Medium
- audio
- Type of Carrier
- audiocassetteonline resource
- Digital File Characteristics
- audio file
- Event
- Broadcast on WNYC FM, New York, NY, [1994 April 17].
- Restricted Access
- Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
- Archival original: (1 audio cassette (15 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1419.
- Linking Entry
- Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
- Transferred from original analog cassette by George Blood Audio on March 25, 2015; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides.
- Source
- Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Bartosik, Kimberly, commentator.Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.Hansen, Liane, host.Michel, Karen, radio reporter.Container of (work): Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Romansy. Op. 38, Sredʹ shumnogo bala.National Public Radio (U.S.), radio producer.WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.), broadcaster.Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
- Weekend edition Sunday (Radio program)Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
- *LTC-A 1419