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Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet : performances at City Center

Title
Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet : performances at City Center, 1990-03.
Publication
[March 21 and 24th?], 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Miller, Rob (Robert E.)
  • Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
  • Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938-
  • Tcherepnin, Ivan
  • Tudor, David, 1926-1996.
  • City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.)
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Company
  • Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor
Found In
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Description
3 streaming audio files (72 minutes total) : digital, stereo
Uniform Title
  • Cargo X (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
  • Field and figures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
  • Quartet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Alternative Title
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Live sound recordings.
Note
  • Title, dates and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten notes on original cassette, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
  • Handwritten note on original cassette, side A: "Creative Act, City Center 1990 ; Rec. by RM [Rob Miller]". Handwritten note on original cassette, side B: "Cargo X, Quartet".
  • Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Field and figures (1989), Cargo X (1989), and, Quartet (1982).
  • The music for Field and figures, Ivan Tcherepnin's Creative act: Electronically Varied Heterothonies on a Text by Marcel Duchamp, contains spoken short phrases of text by Marcel Duchamp in English.
  • Sound quality is mostly good; audience applause overlaps the end of Spectra, and the recording volume in the beginning of Sextet for seven is slightly low.
  • Donor's inventory number: C036.
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.
Contents
  • Streaming file 1, side a: Field and figures "Creative act" / [Ivan Tcherepnin] (0:00-29:01) -- Audience applause (29:02-30:18)
  • Streaming file 2, side b: Cargo X ["Spectra" / Takehisa Kosugi] (0:00-21:05) -- Audience applause (20:05-21:47)
  • Streaming file 3, side b: Quartet ["Sextet for seven" / David Tudor] (0:00-18:15) -- Audience applause (18:16-20:12)
Call Number
*LTC-A 1236
OCLC
904255609
Title
Field and figures, Cargo X, and, Quartet : performances at City Center, 1990-03.
Production
[March 21 and 24th?], 1990.
Playing Time
003018 002147 002012
Type of Content
performed music
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Event
Recorded in performances at City Center, New York, New York, 1990 [March 21 and 24th?].
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (72 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1236.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; three preservation files were created based on content and cassette sides: C036a -- C036c.
Source
Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Connect to:
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Added Author
Miller, Rob (Robert E.), recording engineer.
Container of (work): Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968. Works. Selections.
Container of (work): Kosugi, Takehisa, 1938- Spectra.
Container of (work): Tcherepnin, Ivan. Creative act.
Container of (work): Tudor, David, 1926-1996. Sextet for seven.
City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company.
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, donor.
Added Title
Music for (work) : Cargo X (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music for (work) : Field and figures (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music for (work) : Quartet (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials.
Found In:
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Research Call Number
*LTC-A 1236
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