- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (32 minutes) : digital, mono
- Summary
- (0:00-32:05) Begins abruptly with unidentified speakers in a rehearsal for an unidentified theater production on May 2nd; a female director and the actors negotiate and rehearse aspects of the play; ends abruptly.
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Note
- Title provided by cataloger based on audition and handwritten notes on original container. The recording location and year are provided by the cataloger based on similarities to a separate recording in the collection with the classmark *LT-7-A 2350.
- Handwritten notes on original container: "May 2nd, Rehearsal Room, Reel #1 [front] ; Backwards (use section betw 1st + 2nd papers) [back]".
- A rehearsal on April 26, 1966 for the same unidentified theater production on a separate recording, with the classmark *LT-7-A 2350, is available for separate streaming at http://link.nypl.org/TKeXiPguRTqfW1LZxK6lbAO.
- Sound quality is uneven with fluctuating volume levels. At times, the speakers are inaudible, due to the distance of the speakers from the microphone.
- Donor's inventory number: R113.
- 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
- *LT-7-A 2354
- OCLC
- 880675016
- Title
Rehearsal for an unidentified theater production : May 2nd rehearsal room.
- Production
May 2, [1966?]
- Playing Time
003158
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiotape reel
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded at the Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1966 May 2, [The handwritten note on the front of the original container that supplies the date of May 2nd, does not include the year, however based on the recording and collection context, it was likely recorded in 1966].
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audiotape reel (32 minutes) : analog, 7 1/2 ips, half track, mono ; 7 in.) in *LT-7-A 2354.
- 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 January 22, 2014.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Young Men's and Young Women's Hebrew Association of Philadelphia.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
- Added Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Research Call Number
*LT-7-A 2354