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{"value"=>"3596595", "type"=>"local_mss"}
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{"value"=>"1947-2005", "type"=>"inclusive", "normal"=>"1947/2005"}
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{"value"=>"Series V: Audio and Moving Image Recordings"}
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{"value"=>"<p>This series contains audio and video recordings of Luening's music (almost all audio), as well as music by his colleagues and students. It also holds interviews with Luening and others; lectures; and autobiographical recordings.</p> <p>Luening's music is documented through performances; studio recording sessions for Composers Recordings Inc.; and electronic and tape realizations created at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center. Most of his work is represented here, including his opera <span class=\"title\">Evangeline</span>; the cantata <span class=\"title\">No Jerusalem But This</span>; the song cycle <span class=\"title\">Nine Songs to Poems of Emily Dickinson</span>; other song settings of poetry for voice and piano, or chamber orchestra; chamber music; string quartets; sonatas for piano, cello, flute, trombone, violin, and viola; solo works for flute, clarinet, violin, contrabass, organ, accordion, cello, viola, and French horn; and many orchestral works, including his series of <span class=\"title\">Symphonic Fantasias</span>, and tone poems such as <span class=\"title\">Wisconsin Suite of Childhood Tunes Remembered</span>, <span class=\"title\">A Wisconsin Symphony</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Kentucky Concerto for Orchestra</span>. Many of Luening's compositions have multiple recordings by different performers over time. The Luening compositions are arranged into: individual works, and multiple works. Many recordings in this series include music by other composers.</p> <p>Luening's compositions employing tape and electronics heard here include <span class=\"title\">Low Speed</span>, <span class=\"title\">Gargoyles</span>, <span class=\"title\">Fugue and Chorale Fantasy for Organ and Electronic Doubles</span>, <span class=\"title\">Dynamophonic Interlude</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Synthesis for Orchestra and Electronic Sound</span>. Also present are Luening's collaborations with Vladimir Ussachevsky, such as <span class=\"title\">Concerted Piece for Tape Recorder and Orchestra</span>, <span class=\"title\">Incantation</span>, <span class=\"title\">Rhapsodic Variations for Tape Recorder and Orchestra</span>, and <span class=\"title\">Suite from King Lear</span>. Recordings of these pieces often include works-in-progress as various versions of tape or electronic components of works were produced. Unidentified compositions and the works-in-progress appears at the end of the composition list.</p> <p>Music by Luening's colleagues and students includes work by Bülent Arel, Milton Babbitt, Ernst Bacon, Richard Brooks, Charles Dodge, Halim El-Dabh, Elisanda Fabregas, Joel Feigin, Erik Nielsen, Elliott Schwartz, Daria Semegen, and Daniel Waitzman, among many others. Work by unidentified composers appears at the end of this list.</p> <p>The radio broadcasts include Luening's music and hosts' commentary on it; celebrations of Luening's birthdays; and documentary programs on Aaron Jay Kernis and Edgard Varèse.</p> <p>The interviews are composed of Luening's appearances on radio, including on WBAI, WQXR, Westdeutscher Rundfunk, and National Public Radio; print media interviews; and private interviews. The interviews from 1981 promote the publication of Luening's autobiography. There is also a narrative by Luening on the history of the American Music Center. The other interviewees include Ernst Bacon.</p> <p>The lectures encompass both academic or conference lectures, and lecture-performances in which Luening introduces his work before it is performed. Topics include Paul Hindemith; electronic sound and composition; and the opera <span class=\"title\">Evangeline</span>. Some of the recordings of Luening's compositions earlier in this series also include Luening's remarks or lectures before performances.</p> <p>The autobiographical recordings include a lecture, and a recording of Luening recounting his upbringing (in German), produced in Germany in 1970.</p>"}
- arrangement
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{"value"=>"<p>The series is arranged into: Luening compositions; Compositions by others; Radio broadcasts; Interviews; Lectures; and Autobiographical recordings.</p>"}
- accessrestrict
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{"value"=>"<p>Inquiries regarding audio and video materials in the collection may be directed to the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound (recordedsound@nypl.org). Audio and video materials will be subject to preservation evaluation and migration prior to access.</p>"}
- note
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{"value"=>"Many of the original media recordings contained paper documentation with further details about the recordings, such as performer credits, correspondence, programs, or other contextual information. These papers were removed from the media containers and are arranged with the related recordings. Many of the recordings were cataloged by the Music Division and bear catalog numbers as well as the six-digit identification number assigned by the library."}
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1947
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1947
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2005
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1947
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2005
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0.67 linear feet (2 boxes). 612 audio recordings. 1 moving image recording