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Prairie home companion (Radio program) episode: and, All things considered (Radio program) episode, and, Interview with Marianne Preger, continuation, 1983-03-15/27

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Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

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Title
Prairie home companion (Radio program) episode: and, All things considered (Radio program) episode, and, Interview with Marianne Preger, continuation, 1983-03-15/27
Additional title: Prairie home companion (Radio program)
Names
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Jowitt, Deborah (Commentator)
Keillor, Garrison (Host)
Preger-Simon, Marianne (Interviewee)
Vaughan, David, 1924- (Interviewer)
WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.) (Broadcaster)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 1983-03-15
Date Created: 1983-03-27
Date Created: 1983 (Questionable)
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTC-A 1195
Topics
Cunningham, Merce
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Dime a dance (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Choreography
Music and dance
Genres
Radio programs
Interviews
Notes
Content: Title provided by cataloger based on audition and handwritten notes on original cassette.
Content: Handwritten notes on original cassette, Side A: "PHC [Prairie Home Companion]". Side B: "All things considered: 15 March 1983 ; Continuation of Marianne Preger Interview 27 March 1983".
Content: Part 1 of David Vaughan's Interview with Marianne Preger[-Simon] can be accessed through the staff classmark *LTC-A 1468, and by streaming audio at: http://link.nyp.org/ .
Numbering: Donor's inventory number: C372.
Venue: Prairie home companion recorded in live performance at the [Fitzgerald] Theater, Saint Paul, Minnesota, [probably 1983?].
Venue: All things considered broadcast by radio station WNYC, New York, New York, 1983 March 15.
Venue: Interview with Marianne Preger recorded in an unidentified location, likely, New York, New York, 1983 March 27.
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Physical Description
Audiocassette
Extent: 1 audio cassette (64 minutes) : analog
Sound quality is good.
Description
Streaming file 1, Side a: Begins abruptly, episode of Prairie home companion from an unidentified date. Streaming file 2, Side b: Begins abruptly, clip from an episode of All things considered on March 15, 1983, 0:00-6:21; unidentified host [Brooke Gladstone?] introduces the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and its 30th anniversary season; Deborah Jowitt speaks about Merce Cunningham's choreography, dancers, and movement characteristics; clip of John Cage and Merce Cunningham speaking about the independence of music and dance in their collaboration; Jowitt speaks about Cunningham's use of dance on camera in live performance; Jowitt speaks about the audience experience of Cunningham's performances; begins abruptly ca. 6:22, Marianne Preger[-Simon] continues to speak with David Vaughan on March 27, 1983 about Cunningham's use of music including the times when John Cage would join rehearsals; briefly, her admiration of David Tudor as a piano accompanist; Vaughan asks about the music for Dime a dance (1953) and they discuss the relationship of music and dance in Cunningham's early works; more about the movements in Dime a dance; Preger[-Simon] tells an anecdote about her entrance and role in Dime a dance; Preger[-Simon] comments on the similarities of the early Cunningham dances to his "current" works, including the vocabularies; they continue to compare Cunningham's early works and movements to the current day Company and choreography; Preger[-Simon] comments on the shift that occurred when Cunningham removed himself from performing in his own work; Cunningham as a performer, ends abruptly; ca. 15:37, continuation of a Prairie home companion episode, ends abruptly.
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 900290553
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20516331
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): e1fb1c80-b82c-0133-1d55-60f81dd2b63c
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1983). Prairie home companion (Radio program) episode Retrieved from https://qa-digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e65b8cd0-b82c-0133-1242-60f81dd2b63c

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Prairie home companion (Radio program) episode