CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
5686
Partner Institution:
Simon Fraser University
Source Collection Label:
Reading in BC Collection
Sub Series:
Reading in BC Collection
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
Allen Ginsberg and Peter Orlovsky performance and reading at [UBC?], [1976?] #695
Title Source:
J-card and inventory
Language:
English
Production Context:
Documentary recording
Genre:
Speeches: Talks
Identifiers:
[]
Rights
Rights:
Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)
CREATORS
Name:
Ginsberg, Allen
Dates:
1926-1997
Role:
"Speaker",
"Performer"
Name:
Orlovsky, Peter
Dates:
1933-2010
Role:
"Performer",
"Speaker"
Name:
Persky, Stan
Dates:
1941-
Role:
"Speaker"
Notes:
Introducer
CONTRIBUTORS
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Image:
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Track Configuration:
2 track
Playback Mode:
Stereo
Sound Quality:
Excellent
Physical Condition:
Excellent
Other Physical Description:
Black and white clear jewel case with J-card
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:38:15
Size:
39.6 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Channel Field:
Stereo
Sample Rate:
44.1 kHz
Duration:
T00:38:20
Size:
39.4 MB
Bitrate:
32 bit
Encoding:
WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files
Dates
Date:
[1964-1969?]
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
Audio
Notes:
Audio indicates that this performance happened after 1963, and given that Allen Ginsberg singing William Blake was recorded and released as an album in 1969/1970, this performance was certainly before 1969.
Date:
[1976?]
Type:
Performance Date
Source:
Inventory
LOCATION
Address:
6398 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z4
Venue:
[University of British Columbia?]
Latitude:
49.2586
Longitude:
-123.2452
Notes:
There is a question mark beside
CONTENT
Contents:
Side Track No. Comments
One 000
009 Stan Persky opens with comments about the need for unity and democracy in society and of Ginsberg’s reflection of this in his poetry – then Ginsberg is introduced
043 Ginsberg begins by singing a song from Blake’s Song of Innocence and Experience : The Echoing Green
102 A song called ‘The Lamb’, also from Blake
132 ‘The Chimney Sweeper’
180 Ginsberg relates the last time he read poetry in Vancouver in 1963
194 Ginsberg wants to begin where he left off in 1963, with ‘Television was a baby crawling toward that death chamber’
509 End of Side One
Two 000
007 Continuation of ‘Television was a baby crawling toward that death chamber’
139 End of the poem
140 Music begins and Ginsberg and Orlovsky begin singing ‘Hare Krishna’
257 Song ends
266 Ginsberg reads ‘Morning’ (1963)
292 End of ‘Morning’
294 Ginsberg reads ‘I am a victim of telephone’ (June 20, 1964)
317 Ginsberg reads ‘Today’ (July 21, 1964)
403 End of ‘Today’
408 Ginsberg reads ‘Message II’ (March 1965)
422 End of ‘Message II’
424 Ginsberg reads ‘Kral Majales’ (May 7, 1965)
471 End of ‘Kral Majales’
472 End of tape
Notes:
SFU BC Readings formatting
NOTES
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