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Cosmopolitan greetings: [stage A workshop 1987-10-29 and 1987-10-30]

Title: Cosmopolitan greetings: [stage A workshop 1987-10-29 and 1987-10-30] [videorecording]/ von Allen Ginsberg, George Gruntz, Rolf Liebermann und Robert Wilson ; Hamburgische Staatsoper in der Kampnagelfabrik.
Publication: Hamburg, 1987.

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Description

1 videodisc (DVD) (60 min.) : sd., col.; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

Robert Wilson directs a workshop rehearsal for the 1988 production of the collaborative "jazz opera," Cosmopolitan greetings. Wilson directs and choreographs dancers to jazz music score. Strictly a choreography/movement rehearsal. Recording includes date stamp.

Donor/Sponsor

Gift of the Byrd Hoffman Water Mill Foundation.

Series Statement

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection

Subjects

Genre/Form

Opera.

Note

Donor's inventory number: COS WK 05.
Title constructed from source recording label and Hamburgische Staatsoper program ; credits translated from program.
Portions of the material for Cosmopolitan greetings were suggested by the life of blues singer Bessie Smith (1898-1937) -- program.
For performance recordings of Cosmopolitan greetings, see NCOV 3039 and NCOV 3156 ; for additional workshop recordings, see NCOV 3157 thru NCOV 3162 ; for rehearsals, see NCOV 3163 thru NCOV 3178.
Additional music provided by the NDR-Bigband and soloists of the Philharmonischen Staatsorchesters [Hamburg].

Access (note)

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits (note)

Production stage manager, Nicola Panzer.

Performer (note)

Dancers: Carolyn Carlson, Sheryl Sutton, Lutz Förster.
Jazz musicians: George Gruntz, Don Cherry, Howard Johnson, Larry Schneider, Mike Richmond, Adam Nussbaum.

Event (note)

Recorded at the Hamburg Staatsoper on October 29 and 30, 1987.

Linking Entry (note)

Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

Call Number

NCOV 3160

OCLC

NYPG03-F378

Title

Cosmopolitan greetings: [stage A workshop 1987-10-29 and 1987-10-30] [videorecording]/ von Allen Ginsberg, George Gruntz, Rolf Liebermann und Robert Wilson ; Hamburgische Staatsoper in der Kampnagelfabrik.

Imprint

Hamburg, 1987.

Country of Producing Entity

West Germany.

Series

Robert Wilson Audio/Visual Collection

Access

Restricted to qualified researchers.

Credits

Production stage manager, Nicola Panzer.

Cast

Dancers: Carolyn Carlson, Sheryl Sutton, Lutz Förster.

Jazz musicians: George Gruntz, Don Cherry, Howard Johnson, Larry Schneider, Mike Richmond, Adam Nussbaum.

Event

Recorded at the Hamburg Staatsoper on October 29 and 30, 1987.

Linking Entry

Forms part of the Theatre on Film and Tape Archive, Billy Rose Theatre Division.

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Added Author

Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997, librettist.

Gruntz, George. Cosmopolitan greetings.

Liebermann, Rolf, 1910-1999, composer (expression)

Wilson, Robert, 1941- director.

Wilson, Robert, 1941- designer.

Panzer, Nicola, production stage manager.

Carlson, Carolyn, dancer.

Sutton, Sheryl, 1950- dancer.

Förster, Lutz, dancer.

Cherry, Don, musician.

Johnson, Howard, 1941-2021, musician.

Schneider, Larry, musician.

Richmond, Mike, musician.

Nussbaum, Adam, musician.

NDR-Bigband, musician.

Philharmonisches Staatsorchester Hamburg, musician.

Hamburgische Staatsoper, producer.

Kampnagel-Fabrik.

Research Call Number

NCOV 3160

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