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Interview with Carolyn Brown and David Vaughan: on New York & Company (Radio program), WNYC, 2001-03

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Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

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Interview with Carolyn Brown and David Vaughan

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Title
Interview with Carolyn Brown and David Vaughan: on New York & Company (Radio program), WNYC, 2001-03
Additional title: Seasons (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Additional title: Leonard Lopate show (Radio program)
Names
Merce Cunningham Dance Company (Associated name)
Cage, John (Composer)
Brown, Carolyn, 1927- (Interviewee)
Lopate, Leonard (Host)
Vaughan, David, 1924- (Interviewee)
WNYC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.) (Broadcaster)
Collection

Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation Collection. Audio materials

Dates / Origin
Date Created: 2001-03 (Questionable)
Library locations
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound
Shelf locator: *LTC-A 1472
Topics
Brown, Carolyn, 1927-
Cage, John
Cunningham, Merce
Black Mountain College (Black Mountain, N.C.)
Merce Cunningham Dance Company
Sixteen dances for soloist and company of three (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Suite by chance (Choreographic work : Cunningham)
Music and dance
Musique concrète
Cage, John. Seasons. Selections
Genres
Interviews
Notes
Content: Host Leonard Lopate interviews Carolyn Brown and David Vaughan for broadcast by radio station WNYC FM, on its series New York & Company radio program (former name of the Leonard Lopate show); on the occasion of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company season at City Center, March 31-April 8, 2001.
Content: Title, date and location provided by cataloger based on audition, and handwritten and printed notes on original cassette.
Content: Handwritten note on original cassette: "Carolyn Brown ; David Vaughan". Printed label on original cassette: "WNYC AM820 / 93.3 FM ; Dolby B ; New York, N.Y.".
Venue: Broadcast on WNYC radio station, New York, New York, 2001 [March ?].
Acquisition: Gift; Merce Cunningham Dance Foundation, 2011-2012.
Physical Description
Audiocassette
Extent: 1 audiocassette (17 minutes) : analog
Sound quality is good.
Description
Tobi Tobias introduces the New York & Company radio program with Leonard Lopate; Leonard Lopate introduces the Merce Cunningham Dance Company season at City Center, Carolyn Brown, and David Vaughan; Carolyn Brown speaks about meeting Merce Cunningham and John Cage with her husband Earle Brown while in Denver, Colorado; David Vaughan speaks about meeting Cunningham and Cage at the School of American Ballet, as well as seeing some of their performances for the first time; Brown speaks about being invited by Cunningham to the 1953 summer session at Black Mountain College and how this experience inspired her to become a dancer; she speaks about several of the works they performed at Black Mountain that summer, including Suite by chance (1953); touring in the Volkswagon bus, especially the conversations between Cage and David Tudor about theory and chance, and Cunningham's quiet demeanor; being drawn to the artistic ideas of Cunningham and his collaborators; how she adjusted to dancing independently of the accompanying music; Vaughan speaks about his first impressions of Sixteen dances for soloist and company of three (1951) and how this work inspired him; they speak briefly about Vaughan's work as a Company administrator and his recently published book, Merce Cunningham: 50 years (New York, Aperture); Brown compares the early reception and reviews of the Company in New York versus that of Europe; Brown speaks briefly about a recent reconstruction of Summerspace (1958); Lopate announces the upcoming performances at City Center; Vaughan speaks briefly about performing as a vocalist in How to pass, kick, fall, and run (1965).
Type of Resource
Sound recording
Languages
English
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 932895427
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b20861317
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 95bf3460-b949-0133-172e-3c07547a230f
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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Carolyn Brown and David Vaughan" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 2001. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/97fb45b0-b949-0133-8522-3c07547a230f

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Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "Interview with Carolyn Brown and David Vaughan" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 28, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/97fb45b0-b949-0133-8522-3c07547a230f

APA Format

Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (2001). Interview with Carolyn Brown and David Vaughan Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/97fb45b0-b949-0133-8522-3c07547a230f

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Interview with Carolyn Brown and David Vaughan