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Music and dance, and chance operations a forum discussion with Merce Cunningham.

Title: Music and dance, and chance operations [sound recording] : a forum discussion with Merce Cunningham.
Author: Cunningham, Merce
Publication: 1970.

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1 sound disc (59 min.) : digital; (4 3/4 in.)

Summary

[Begins abruptly; introductory remarks by an unidentified male announcer.] Anita Page, as moderator of a panel discussion about Merce Cunningham's choreographic methods, introduces Cunningham and the panelists Robert Stern, and Marianne Simon; in response to questions and comments from Page and the other panelists, Cunningham speaks about the impact of electronic music or sounds on his conception of the relationship of dance and music; the world's increasingly multilinear approach to sight and sound as a second important influence; his use of chance operations as a choreographic method, as illustrated in his works Canfield and Tread; the type of works in which he does not use chance operations; reasons he does not supress dancers' individualism; collaborating with the composer David Tudor on Rainforest; the relationship of the music and the movement including his choreographing independently of the music [short gap]; the nature of rhythm and its ubiquity in everyday movement; the use of electronic music; audience reaction to his work Winterbranch, in particular the perception of violence; timing, including his use of a stop watch and his work Canfield; interaction among the dancers, including alternative options and the use of sound cues; the story behind John Cage's composition Cheap imitation, for Cunningham's work Second hand; his collaboration with artist Robert Rauschenberg, including in connection with his work Story; Cage's accompaniment to Cunningham's work How to pass, kick, fall and run; the skills and training of his dancers; setting Summerspace on the New York City Ballet; the difference in the reception of his work between student and non-student audiences; his thoughts on the work of other contemporary choreographers such as Deborah Hay and Yvonne Rainer [closing remarks and announcements by an unidentified male announcer followed by an excerpt of John Cage's Fontana mix].

Uniform Title

Five college forum (Radio program)

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Note

Panel discussion moderated by Anita Page with Merce Cunningham, Robert Stern, composer, and Marianne Simon, former dancer with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company; recorded and broadcast on Feb. 16,1970 by radio station WFCR, Amherst, Massachusetts, on its series, Five college forum.
Sound quality is excellent.

Funding (note)

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.

System Details (note)

Transferred from 2 sound tape reels (ca. 59 min.; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 7 in.; half-track, acetate; originally recorded in 1970) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Source (note)

Gift of Anita Page.

Call Number

*MGZTL 4-122

OCLC

81402112

Author

Cunningham, Merce, interviewee.

Title

Music and dance, and chance operations [sound recording] : a forum discussion with Merce Cunningham.

Imprint

1970.

Funding

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010.

System Details

Transferred from 2 sound tape reels (ca. 59 min.; 7 1/2 in. per sec.; 7 in.; half-track, acetate; originally recorded in 1970) to wav file and compact disc formats in 2010.

Local Note

Former call number: *MGZTC 3-934

Archive original: *MGZTO 7-122 reels 1-2

Added Author

Page, Anita. Moderator

Stern, Robert, 1934-2018. Speaker

Preger-Simon, Marianne, 1929- Speaker

Anita Page. Donor

Oral history archive.

Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, 2009-2010

Added Title

Five college forum (Radio program)

Research Call Number

*MGZTL 4-122

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