- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Description
- 1 streaming audio file (9 minutes) : digital, stereo
- Summary
- James P. Sherman of WBAI radio introduces the upcoming Merce Cunningham [Dance Company] season in New York and the opening of an installation at the Whitney; Jeanette Vuocolo, Whitney curator, announces the screening of Beach birds for camera on March 1, 1995, featuring the music, John Cage's Four³, played live by [Merce Cunningham Dance Company] musicians; Sherman asks John D.S. Adams and D'Arcy Gray several short questions about this live performance of Cage's Four³; Adams and Gray respond, including how they relate to dancers in performance and how the venue space impacts their performances.
- Alternative Title
- Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Radio interviews.
- Note
- Title, speakers, dates and locations provided by cataloger based on audition, handwritten notes on original container and cassette, and typed paper inserts.
- James P. Sherman gives a brief report on WBAI radio on the Beach birds for camera screening on March 1, 1995, with live musical accompaniment, at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris.
- Handwritten note on original container: "Beachbirds interview ; James Sherman ; Feb. 95". Handwritten note on original cassette: "'Beachbirds for Camera' interview ; James P Sherman ; 2/28/95". Printed label affixed to original cassette: "WBAI 99.5 fm pacifica".
- Sound quality is fair, at times the speakers are muffled and difficult to hear.
- Donor's inventory number: C353.
- Accompanying insert no. 1 is a typed program description, on 3x5 paper, containing a handwritten note: "3/1/95 BRDCST". Accompanying insert no. 2 is a press release, on Cunningham Dance Foundation letterhead, for the Beach Birds for Camera video installation screening.
- 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 1189
- OCLC
- 902683580
- Title
Radio report on the screening of Beach birds for camera at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, 1995-02-28/1995-03-01 / reported by James P. Sherman.
- Production
February 28, 1995.
- Publisher
March 1, 1995.
- Playing Time
000847
- Type of Content
spoken word
- Type of Medium
audio
- Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
audio file
- Event
Recorded at the Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in, New York, New York, 1995 February 28.
Broadcast on WBAI radio station, New York, New York, 1995 March 1.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
- Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (9 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1189.
- Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
- Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
- Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Adams, John D. S., 1966- commentator.
Gray, D'Arcy, commentator.
Sherman, James P., interviewer.
Vuocolo, Jeanette, commentator.
WBAI Radio (New York, N.Y.), broadcaster.
Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, 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 1189