About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Search Browse About
Search only public domain materials
Items Collections Divisions
Digital Collections Using Images Using Data
Items Rainforest no. 1

Rainforest no. 1: performance of RainForest at City Center, 1989-03

More Details Cite This Item

Library division & collection with this item:

LIBRARY DIVISION
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound

  • Lincoln Center 25th anniversary
  • Piney woods money mama
  • Polish music history
  • Kamernyĭ Orkestr Akademicheskogo Teatra opery i baleta goroda Kazani
  • On the picket line
  • Signature
  • Wynton Marsalis
  • Leonard Bernstein in Salzau, 1987
  • Lewis Archibald interviews Ingrid Bergman, 1973
  • M'loch
  • Me and Juliet
  • Edison white wax "Perfected" era cylinders
  • The Mapleson Cylinders
  • Leida Snow reports on New York City Salutes Theater Week
  • Arthur Bell interviews Rosalind Russell, 1974-09-23
Previous Next

COLLECTION
Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

This Item

Rainforest no. 1

View this item elsewhere:

Title
Rainforest no. 1: performance of RainForest at City Center, 1989-03
Additional title: RainForest (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Names
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Tudor, David, 1926-1996 (Composer)
Miller, Rob (Robert E.) (Recording engineer)
City Center of Music and Drama (New York, N. Y.) (Host)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1989-03
Table of Contents
RainForest ["Rainforest no. 1" / David Tudor] (0:00-21:04) -- Audience applause and intermission sounds (21:05-28:40) -- Unidentified electronic music (28:41-31:53)
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTC-A 1279
Topics
Aleatory music
Electronic music
Modern dance music
Genres
Music
Live sound recordings
Notes
Statement of responsibility: music by David Tudor.
Content: Title, date and location provided by cataloger based on handwritten note on original cassette, audition, and information provided by the Merce Cunningham Trust.
Content: Handwritten note on original cassette, side a: "Rainforest, City Center 3/89 ; Rec. by Rob [Miller]". Handwritten note on original container: "Rainforest, NYC City Center ; Kennedy Center ; Good Perspectives! 11/27/89".
Content: Contains the music for Merce Cunningham's RainForest (1968).
Numbering: Donor's inventory number: C201.
Venue: Recorded in performance at City Center, New York, New York, 1989 [March].
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Physical Description
Audiocassette
Extent: 1 audio cassette (32 minutes) : analog
Sound quality is good; there is audience applause following RainForest.
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 904456157
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20547414
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 27876980-b8b1-0133-dad0-60f81dd2b63c
Rights Statement
This item is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use this Item in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).

Item timeline of events

  • 1989: Created
  • 2024: Found by you!
  • 2025

MLA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Rainforest no. 1" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1989. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2b886950-b8b1-0133-98ca-60f81dd2b63c

Chicago/Turabian Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Rainforest no. 1" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed November 26, 2024. https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2b886950-b8b1-0133-98ca-60f81dd2b63c

APA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1989). Rainforest no. 1 Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2b886950-b8b1-0133-98ca-60f81dd2b63c

Wikipedia Citation

<ref name=NYPL>{{cite web | url=https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/2b886950-b8b1-0133-98ca-60f81dd2b63c | title= (sound recording) Rainforest no. 1, (1989)|author=Digital Collections, The New York Public Library |accessdate=November 26, 2024 |publisher=The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox, and Tilden Foundations}}</ref>

Rainforest no. 1