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Quartet, and, Field and figures : performance at City Center

Title
Quartet, and, Field and figures : performance at City Center, 1990-03.
Publication
[March], 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors
  • Miller, Rob (Robert E.)
  • Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968.
  • 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
2 streaming audio files (52 minutes total) : digital, stereo
Uniform Title
  • 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, date and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original cassette, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
  • Handwritten note on original cassette, side a: "Quartet, City Center 1990". Side b: "Creative act ; Rec. by RM [Rob Miller]". Handwritten note on original container: "Quartet/Field + Figures, Creative Act".
  • Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's Quartet (1982), and, Field and figures (1989).
  • The music for Field and figures, Ivan Tcherepnin's Creative act: Electronically Varied Heterothonies on a Text by Marcel Duchamp, contains electronically altered short phrases of text by Marcel Duchamp, spoken in English by John Cage.
  • Sound quality is fair to mostly good; the recording volume for Sextet for seven is low and audience applause overlaps the ends of both performances.
  • Donor's inventory number: C194.
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: Quartet ["Sextet for seven" / David Tudor] (1:20-18:45) -- Audience applause (18:45-20:57)
  • Streaming file 2: Field and figures "Creative act" / [Ivan Tcherepnin] (0:00-29:13) -- Audience applause (29:13-31:16)
Call Number
*LTC-A 1276
OCLC
906187133
Title
Quartet, and, Field and figures : performance at City Center, 1990-03.
Production
[March], 1990.
Playing Time
002057 003116
Type of Content
performed music
Type of Medium
audio
Type of Carrier
audiocassette
online resource
Digital File Characteristics
audio file
Event
Recorded in performance at City Center, New York, New York, 1990 [March].
Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming audio only on site at NYPL Research Libraries.
Original Version
Archival original: (1 audio cassette (52 minutes) : analog) in *LTC-A 1276.
Linking Entry
Forms part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection.
Local Note
Transferred from original analog cassette by the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; two preservation files were created based on cassette sides: C194a NEW, and, C194b NEW.
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): 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) : 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 1276
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