[78-L] ARSC Preservation Grants Awards 2010

[Bill Klinger]

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---- 2010 ARSC PRESERVATION GRANTS AWARDS ----

The ARSC Preservation Grants Committee is pleased to announce the recipients
of the Grants for Preservation of Classical Music Historical Recordings. The
program for these grants was founded in 2004 by Al Schlachtmeyer and the
ARSC Board of Directors, to encourage and support the preservation of
historically significant sound recordings of Western Art Music by
individuals and organizations.

--- Columbia University Libraries ---

A grant of $5000 was awarded to Columbia University Libraries, to assist in
preserving and making accessible unique recordings selected from the
Composers Forum Collection. The collection includes over 600 hours on
reel-to-reel tape, recorded at concerts between 1952 and 1968 at Columbia
University's McMillan Theater (now Miller Theater) and the New York Public
Library's Donnell Library.

These concerts were designed particularly to support young and adventurous
composers and showcase works by William Bolcolm, George Edwards, John
Harbison, Lejaren Hiller, and Otto Luening.

On the recordings, Virgil Thomson, Milton Babbitt, Otto Luening, and others
moderate question-and-answer periods.

--- H. W. Marston and Company ---

To assist with the first stage of The Bell Telephone Laboratories Project,
H. W. Marston and Company was awarded a grant of $5000. The project will
preserve, as "flat transfers" in digital format, the earliest Hi-Fi and
Stereo recordings of Bell Telephone Laboratories, made in 1931 and 1932.

The materials to be transferred include discs of the first "live" recordings
of the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Leopold Stokowski at the Academy
of Music in Philadelphia, as well as recordings made at the Riverside Church
(organ and carillon), Princeton University (organ), and the Roxy Theater in
New York.

The preservation copies will later be edited in a format suitable for
distribution to appropriate sound archives and for publication of the best
and most important examples on CD.


For more information about the Grants for Preservation of Classical Music
Historical Recordings, visit
http://www.arsc-audio.org/preservationgrants.html.

The deadline for receipt of applications for the next grant cycle is
December 15, 2010.



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