- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 8 streaming audio files (19 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Uniform Title
- Taiping guangji. Selections.
- Taiping yulan. Selections.
- Roadrunners (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subject
- Note
- Contains John Cage reading texts from the Taiping yulan [Chinese encyclopedia, ca. 983 A.D.], and Taiping guangji [compilation of Chinese stories, ca. 978 A.D.], as components intended for use in Yasunao Tone's Geography and music, the music for Merce Cunningham's Roadrunners (1979).
- Title, date and speaker provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original cassettes, and audition.
- Handwritten note on original cassette no. 1: "Introduction ; RR [Roadrunners] ; JC [John Cage] ; 3/14/86". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 2: "Yumin ; RR [Roadrunners] ; JC [John Cage] ; 3/14/86". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 3: "Yumin". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 4: "Ruo-Tou People ; RR [Roadrunners] ; JC [John Cage] ; 3/14/86". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 5: "Ocean Men ; RR [Roadrunners] ; JC [John Cage] ; 3/14/86". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 6: "Country of Shaman ; RR [Roadrunners] ; JC [John Cage] ; 3/14/86". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 7: "Country of Chian [Jian] Fu ; RR [Roadrunners] ; JC [John Cage] ; 3/14/86". Handwritten note on original cassette no. 8: "Land of White People ; RR [Roadrunners] ; JC [John Cage] ; 3/14/86".
- 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 1499
- OCLC
- Title
John Cage reads text from the Taiping yulan and Taiping guangji, 1986-03-14.
- Production
March 14, 1986.
- Playing Time
000142 000204 000214 000226 000253 000224 000228 000152
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival originals: (8 audio cassettes (19 minutes total) : analog) in *LTC-A 1499.
- Summary
Streaming file 1: John Cage reads an "Introduction".
Streaming file 2: John Cage reads "Yumin People".
Streaming file 3: John Cage reads "Yumin People".
Streaming file 4: John Cage reads "Ruo-Tou People".
Streaming file 5: John Cage reads "Ocean Men".
Streaming file 6: John Cage reads "Country of Shaman".
Streaming file 7: John Cage reads "Country of [Jian] Fu".
Streaming file 8: John Cage reads "Land of White People".
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from eight original analog cassettes by George Blood Audio on March 26, 2015.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Cage, John, narrator.
Related to (work): Tone, Yasunao. Geography and music.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Container of (work) : Taiping guangji. Selections.
Container of (work) : Taiping yulan. Selections.
Related to (work) : Roadrunners (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1499