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Merce Cunningham at 75 with comments by Kimberly Bartosik : on NPR's Weekend edition (Radio program)

Title
  1. 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.
Published by
  1. [April 17, 1994].

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Details

Additional authors
  1. Bartosik, Kimberly
  2. Cunningham, Merce
  3. Hansen, Liane
  4. Michel, Karen
  5. Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893.
  6. National Public Radio (U.S.), radio producer
  7. WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.), broadcaster
  8. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor
Found in
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Description
  1. 2 streaming audio files (15 minutes total) : digital, stereo
Summary
  1. 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.
  2. 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
  1. Weekend edition Sunday (Radio program)
Alternative title
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Subject
  1. Cunningham, Merce > Ocean
  2. Classical music radio programs
  3. Biographical radio programs
  4. Songs (High voice) with piano
  5. Choreography
  6. Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  7. Cunningham, Merce, > choreographer
  8. Cage, John, > composer
Genre/Form
  1. Biographical radio programs.
  2. Classical music radio programs.
Call number
  1. *LTC-A 1419
Note
  1. Contains a segment on Merce Cunningham for the Weekend Edition (Radio program) broadcast on NPR.
  2. Title, date and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten note affixed to original container and audition.
  3. Handwritten note affixed to original container: "NPR - side B".
  4. Sound quality is good.
Access (note)
  1. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Source (note)
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation
Linking entry (note)
  1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Title
  1. 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
  1. [April 17, 1994].
Playing time
  1. 000645 000810
Type of content
  1. performed music
  2. spoken word
Type of medium
  1. audio
Type of carrier
  1. audiocassette
  2. online resource
Digital file characteristics
  1. audio file
Event
  1. Broadcast on WNYC FM, New York, NY, [1994 April 17].
Restricted access
  1. Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Original version
  1. Archival original: (1 audio cassette (15 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1419.
Linking entry
  1. Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Local note
  1. Transferred from original analog cassette by George Blood Audio on March 25, 2015; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides.
Source
  1. Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Connect to:
  1. NYPL Digital Collections
Added author
  1. Bartosik, Kimberly, commentator.
  2. Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.
  3. Hansen, Liane, host.
  4. Michel, Karen, radio reporter.
  5. Container of (work): Tchaikovsky, Peter Ilich, 1840-1893. Romansy. Op. 38, Sredʹ shumnogo bala.
  6. National Public Radio (U.S.), radio producer.
  7. WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.), broadcaster.
  8. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Added title
  1. Weekend edition Sunday (Radio program)
  2. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Found in:
  1. Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Research call number
  1. *LTC-A 1419
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