[78-L] Sephardic music website

[Gregg Kimball]

Hi Joel,

Thanks for posting this wonderful site.  I just saw Flory Jagoda perform a 
few weeks ago, and it was a remarkable performance filled with fascinating 
memories and tales.  I was pleased to see one of her album covers featured 
on the website.

Gregg Kimball


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Joel Bresler" <joel.br at verizon.net>
To: "'78-L Mail List'" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 16, 2008 10:30 PM
Subject: [78-L] Sephardic music website


> Dear Friends:
>
> I am very pleased to announce the launch of my site, 
> www.sephardicmusic.org.
> The site chronicles the first 100 years of commercial Sephardic 
> recordings.
> It includes survey articles on the 78 and modern eras, a comprehensive
> discography of Sephardic 78s, and a sample of what the proposed 
> discography
> of modern-era recordings would look like.
>
> I have tried to take advantage of the web's multimedia capabilities to
> expand well beyond the normal contents of a discography (artist, title,
> place and date recorded, etc.) Wherever possible, I include label graphics
> and sound samples. A Union Catalog feature shows which public institutions
> own a particular recording, and I have normalized the songs' titles so 
> that
> users can find all versions of any given song. Last, I have included
> information on the labels that published these recordings, the artists 
> that
> made them, and the stores that sold them. I would welcome your comments.
>
> With more and more collectors digitizing their titles, I think there is a
> great opportunity for hosting vernacular 78s on the Web. Instead of
> satisfying ourselves with a limited diet of CD re-releases, we can now
> contemplate the prospects of access to the majority of the releases. 
> (While
> I am no lawyer, Canadian and European releases of traditional songs on 78
> should all be in the public domain by now.)
>
> I will be glad to explore the possibilities in this discussion thread. I
> would also like to thank the list's management and participants for the
> amazing amount of help provided me over the past decade.
>
> Very best,
>
> Joel Bresler
>
> sephardicmusic.org
> Joel Bresler, Publisher
> 250 E. Emerson Road
> Lexington, MA 02420
> United States
>
> www.sephardicmusic.org
> 1-781-862-4104 (Telephone & FAX)
> joel.br at verizon.net
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