[78-L] Nice article on George Avakian in today's WSJ

[David Lennick]

Avakian also produced the first recordings of music by Hovhaness with Maro and 
Anahid Ajemian (them Armenians, always sticking together). I e-mailed him last 
year to find out whether the recordings on Dial were the same ones that had 
appeared on noisy 78s on Disc and he confirmed that they were. Roundabout way 
of telling you that I have his e-mail address (I don't think Will is on this list).

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> Interesting coincidence.  I had just mentioned him yesterday on the
> ARSCList in relation to his Columbia reissues as to whether they used
> original master pressings.  Steve Barr had contended that since many
> 1920s Columbia and OKehs were 10-1/4-inches in diameter, they had to be
> dubbed to reduce the size.  I reminded everyone that those "oversize"
> pressings were the ones that were actually 10.0-inches and that
> "regular" sized 78s were actually 9-7/8-inches.  I brought up Avakian
> because he might be able to tell us about the use of original masters in
> those sets, because some started out with master pressings and later
> copies were sometimes dubs.  Uncle Wilski, got George's email address?
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 
> 
> 
> 
> From: Steve Ramm <steveramm78l at hotmail.com>
>> http://tinyurl.com/qbuv24
>