- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 2 streaming audio files (63 minutes total) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- Streaming file 1, side 1: Unidentified speaker introduces Norman O. Brown, ca. 0:00-0:25; Norman O. Brown speaks about John Cage; parallels between civilization, music, and social movements; Cage's use of noise and James Joyce's Finnegans wake; experimental music, history, nihilism, and religion; he quotes from Cage's writings over the years and interprets these, and Cage's compositions, through the "Dionysian" and "Apollonian" dichotomy; more about Finnegan's wake; ends abruptly.
- Streaming file 2, side 2: Begins abruptly, Norman O. Brown continues to speak about the "Dionysian" and "Apollonian" dichotomy in John Cage's music, especially in chance operations; he speaks about Cage's Writing for the second time through Finnegans wake; more about chance operations; he quotes from Cage's Silence; more about "Dionysian" and "Apollonian" aspects of Cage's work; he reads and interprets an excerpt from Henry David Thoreau's journal entry on the fire in the woods; he refers to the biblical story of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the "fiery furnace"; [brief audience applause].
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Lectures.
- Note
- Contains Norman O. Brown's lecture at Wesleyan University as part of the Cage Symposium celebrating John Cage's 75th birthday.
- Title, speaker, date, and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten and typed notes on original container and cassette, and audition.
- Handwritten note on original container: "Cage Symposium ; Norman O. Brown". Typed note on original cassette: "Cage Symposium 2/23/88 ; Lecture - Norman O. Brown ; Wesleyan University ; Middletown, CT ; COPY".
- 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 1660
- OCLC
- 933582900
- Author
Brown, Norman Oliver, 1913-2002, speaker.
- Title
Norman O. Brown lecture at the Cage Symposium at Wesleyan University, 1988-02-23.
- Production
February 23, 1988.
- Playing Time
003718 002546
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded at Wesleyan University in, Middletown, Connecticut, 1988 February 23.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (63 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1660.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by George Blood Audio on March 26, 2015; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Wesleyan University (Middletown, Conn.), host institution.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1660