Sentences with phrase «played phonograph records»

Cage played piano; Cunningham danced; and Rauschenberg, whose White Paintings were hung from the auditorium ceiling, played phonograph records.

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What is going to be the impact of the video - disc, which can be rented or purchased like a phonograph record to be played on any TV set?

Coleman charts the history of recorded music from Edison's phonograph — played by hand - cranking a needle through grooves on a cylinder — to the digital CDs and iPods of today.

In the 1870s, Thomas Edison created the first phonograph — the first device able to record and play back sounds.

In the 1952 «event», the Black Mountain lecturer MC Richards and the poet Charles Olsen read poetry from ladders; Rauschenberg's «White Paintings» hung overhead while he played Edith Piaf records on an old phonograph; David Tudor played the piano; Merce Cunningham danced in and around the audience (chased by a barking dog); and Cage sat on a step - ladder for two hours - sometimes reading a lecture on the relation of music to Zen Buddhism, sometimes listening silently.

Cage lectured throughout; David Tudor played the piano, though what he performed is uncertain; Charles Olson and M.C. Richards read poetry from a ladder; Robert Rauschenberg's «White Paintings» were hung from the ceiling and he played records on an old wind - up phonograph; film and slides were projected on opposing walls and possibly on Rauschenberg's paintings; and Merce Cunningham danced, at one point followed by a dog.

Selecting phonograph or tape recording to be played based on the program specialty, audience taste, or by listening audience requests