The exhibition opens with an assortment of tuned percussion instruments, including box drums, claves, gourd rattles, and mbiras, for use by visitors to the exhibition. There also are television monitors which play music videos from Guadeloupe, Zouk video compilations, and music documentaries from Trinidadian television. In the Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound on the Library's third floor, the exhibition will focus more specifically on sound recordings, including displays of LPs and CDs from Caribbean countries, music videos, and record catalogs. There also will be a compilation CD featuring recordings from the Archives, which can be listened to with earphones. The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is open Monday and Thursday from noon to 8 p.m. and Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday from noon to 6 p.m. The Library is located at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza.
Admission is free.
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts thanks Chivas Regal for its support of the 1996-97 season of public programming. The Library gratefully acknowledges the leadership support of Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman. Additional support for programs and exhibitions has been provided by the Miriam and Harold Steinberg Foundation.