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Guide to the Ed Wilkinson Collection ARS.0092

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Guide to the Ed Wilkinson ARS.0092 1 Collection ARS.0092 Descriptive Summary Title: Ed Wilkinson Collection Dates: 1934-1953 Collection number: ARS.0092 Creator: Wilkinson, Ed Collection size: 4 boxes: 71 tapes (sixty 10.5" reels ; eleven 7" reels) Contributing Institution: Archive of Recorded Sound Abstract: The Ed Wilkinson Collection consists of classical and performance broadcasts of the 1930s and 40s on open reel tape, the majority of which from the Standard Symphony Hour series. Language of Material: Multiple languages Access Open for research; material must be requested at least two business days in advance of intended use. Contact the Archive for assistance. Publication Rights Property rights reside with repository. Publication and reproduction rights reside with the creators or their heirs. To obtain permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Head Librarian of the Archive of Recorded Sound. Preferred Citation Ed Wilkinson Collection, ARS-0092. Courtesy of the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif. Source The Ed Wilkinson Collection was donated to the Stanford Archive of Recorded Sound by Ed Wilkinson in 1983. Sponsor This finding aid was produced with generous financial support from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission. Scope and Contents The Ed Wilkinson Collection consists of seventy-two audiotape copies of radio programs of classical music and opera from 1934 to 1953. The collection, which was transferred by Wilkinson to tape in 1983, features the Standard Symphony Hour series (also known as the Standard Hour), the , and the Symphony and Opera. Various sources were used to assemble the programs. Each tape box has extensive technical and content notes. Collector Ed Wilkinson was associated with the Western Sound Archive, a nonprofit archive founded by Nate Brown in Los Osos, California. Both Brown and Wilkinson share a long association with the Archive of Recorded Sound, and have donated many rare recordings. At one point, the Western Sound Archive was considered the source of nearly all circulating Standard Hour broadcasts. These Standard Hour programs comprise the majority of the Wilkinson collection. Many were dubbed from original network transcription discs once owned by Adrian Michaelis, program manager for the series. Other sources for the program are noted as NBC linechecks, Photo And Sound airchecks, and from other tapes. The Archive also holds many of the original NBC discs for Standard Hour in its transcription collection. Orchestras include the Standard Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony Orchestra. Vocal soloists include Lotte Lehmann, Blanche Thebom, Lily Pons, Maggie Teyte, Dusolina Giannini, Jussi Bjoerling, and Bidu Sayao. Among the instrumental soloists are Joseph Szigeti, Robert Casadesus, Isaac Stern, and Artur Schnabel. The collection also contains some unusual performances by Yehudi Menuhin, such as a Stage Door Canteen broadcast from 1943 and a Town Hall concert with Wanda Landowska from 1944. Indexing Terms Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Orchestra. Standard Hour Program (Radio program). Radio programs

1. Standard Hour broadcasts Physical Description: 48 10.5" open reel tapes (95 programs)

Guide to the Ed Wilkinson ARS.0092 2 Collection ARS.0092 1. Standard Hour broadcasts

Box 1, Reel 1 721 1941-02-27 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Box 1, Reel 1 722 1941-03-06 Scope and Contents note Svedrofsky, Standard Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles

Box 1, Reel 2 723 1941-03-13 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony.

Box 1, Reel 2 724 1941-03-20 Scope and Contents note Svedrofsky, Standard Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles, Lloyd Browning

Box 1, Reel 3 739 1941-07-03 Scope and Contents note Monteux, Standard Symphony Orchestra of San Francisco

Box 1, Reel 4 742 1941-07-24 Scope and Contents note Monteux, Standard Symphony Orchestra of San Francisco, Robert Brereton

Box 1, Reel 5 865 1943-11-28 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Lee Sweetland

Box 1, Reel 5 866 1943-12-05 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Lee Sweetland

Box 1, Reel 6 867 1943-12-12 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Lotte Lehmann

Box 1, Reel 6 868 1943-12-19 Scope and Contents note San Francisco Bank Chorus, Warren Otey

Box 1, Reel 7 871 1944-01-09 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Dusolina Giannini

Box 1, Reel 7 872 1944-01-16 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Dusolina Giannini, Carl Fuerstner

Box 1, Reel 8 873 1944-01-23 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Wendell Otey

Guide to the Ed Wilkinson ARS.0092 3 Collection ARS.0092 1. Standard Hour broadcasts

Box 1, Reel 8 874 1944-01-30 Scope and Contents note Merola, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Dusolina Giannini

Box 1, Reel 9 917 1944-11-26 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Box 1, Reel 9 918 1944-12-03 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Box 1, Reel 10 920 1944-12-17 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Shapiro

Box 1, Reel 11 925 1945-01-21 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Szigeti

Box 1, Reel 11 926 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Don Cossack Chorus, dir. Serge Jaroff

Box 1, Reel 12 967 1945-11-11 Scope and Contents note Merola,

Box 1, Reel 12 968 1945-11-18 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Box 1, Reel 13 976 1946-01-13 Scope and Contents note Alfred Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Artur Schnabel

Box 1, Reel 14 981 1946-02-17 Scope and Contents note Alfred Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Isaac Stern

Box 1, Reel 14 982 1946-02-24 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Opera, Boris Blinder

Box 1, Reel 15 985 1946-03-17 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Witold Malcuzynski

Box 1, Reel 15 986 1946-03-24 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Lev Shorr

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Box 1, Reel 16 987 1946-03-31 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Schapiro

Box 1, Reel 16 988 1946-04-07 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Jospeh Szigeti

Box 1, Reel 17 1023 1946-12-08 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Wanda Krasoff

Box 1, Reel 17 1024 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Jørgen Nielsen

Box 1, Reel 18 1033 1947-02-16 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Mischa Elman

Box 1, Reel 18 1034 1947-02-23 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Maggie Teyte

Box 1, Reel 19 1035 1947-03-02 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Robert Casadesus

Box 1, Reel 19 1036 1947-03-09 Scope and Contents note Charles Munch, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gilles Guilbert

Box 1, Reel 20 1075 1947-12-07 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Naoum Blinder, Boris Blinder

Box 1, Reel 20 1076 1947-12-14 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Rose Bampton, Max Lichtegg

Box 1, Reel 21 1087 1948-02-29 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Dorothy Warenskjold

Box 1, Reel 21 1088 1948-03-07 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Box 1, Reel 22 1089 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic

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Box 1, Reel 22 1090 1948-03-21 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Merrill Remington, Dorothy Warenskjold

Box 2, Reel 1 1091 1948-03-28 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Box 2, Reel 1 1092 1948-03-04 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Robert Brereton

Box 2, Reel 2 1093 1948-04-11 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Jennie Tourel

Box 2, Reel 2 1094 1948-04-18 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Mario Berini

Box 2, Reel 3 1131 1949-01-02 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Stanley Noonan

Box 2, Reel 3 1132 1949-01-09 Scope and Contents note Monteaux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Nan Merriman

Box 4, Reel 12 1153 1949-06-05 Scope and Contents note Barnett, Standard Symphony Of Los Angeles, Marina Koshetz

Box 4, Reel 12 1154 1949-06-12 Scope and Contents note Walter, Standard Symphony Of California, Leon Fleisher

Box 2, Reel 4 1155 1949-06-19 Scope and Contents note Walter, Standard Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles

Box 2, Reel 4 1156 1949-06-26 Scope and Contents note Abravanel, Standard Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles, Dorothy Warenskjold, Joseph Schuster

Box 2, Reel 5 1173 1949-10-23 Scope and Contents note Merola, San Francisco Opera, Jussi Björling, Annalisa Björling

Box 2, Reel 5 1222 1950-10-01 Scope and Contents note Merola, San Francisco Opera, Bidú Sayão, Giuseppe di Stefano

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Box 2, Reel 6 1179 1949-12-04 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Lili Kraus

Box 2, Reel 6 1180 1949-12-11 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Rudolf Firkusny

Box 2, Reel 7 1187 1950-01-29 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Vivian Della Chiesa

Box 2, Reel 7 1188 1950-02-05 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Caroll Glenn

Box 2, Reel 8 1191 1950-02-26 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Jesus Maria San Roma

Box 2, Reel 8 1192 1950-03-05 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Jennie Tourel

Box 2, Reel 9 1193 1950-03-12 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, David Lloyd

Box 2, Reel 9 1194 1950-03-19 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic

Box 2, Reel 10 1197 1950-04-09 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Isaac Stern

Box 2, Reel 10 1198 1950-04-16 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Dorothy Sarnoff

Box 2, Reel 11 1221 Scope and Contents note Merola, San Francisco Opera, Lily Pons, Eugene Conley

Box 2, Reel 11 1222 1950-10-01 Scope and Contents note Merola, San Francisco Opera, Bidú Sayão, Giuseppe di Stefano

Box 2, Reel 12 1231 1950-12-03 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Lyell Barbour

Guide to the Ed Wilkinson ARS.0092 7 Collection ARS.0092 1. Standard Hour broadcasts

Box 2, Reel 12 1232 1950-12-10 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Naoum Blinder, Boris Blinder

Box 2, Reel 13 1233 1950-12-17 Scope and Contents note Stravinsky, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra

Box 2, Reel 13 1234 1950-12-24 Scope and Contents note Barnett, Standard Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles, Roger Wagner Chorale

Box 2, Reel 14 1235 1950-12-31 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Yehudi Menhin

Box 2, Reel 14 1236 1951-01-07 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic

Box 2, Reel 15 1243 1951-02-25 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Ruggiero Ricci

Box 2, Reel 15 1244 1951-03-04 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Lili Kraus

Box 2, Reel 16 1271 1952-01-27 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Virginia Haskins

Box 2, Reel 16 1292 1952-02-03 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Vivian Della Chiesa

Box 2, Reel 17 1247 1951-03-25 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Dorothy Warenskjold

Box 2, Reel 17 1248 1951-04-01 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Paulena Carter

Box 2, Reel 18 1285 1951-12-16 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic

Box 2, Reel 18 1286 1951-12-23 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Aldo Ciccolini

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Box 2, Reel 19 1287 1951-12-30 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin

Box 2, Reel 19 1288 1952-01-06 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Guiomar Novaes

Box 2, Reel 20 1289 1952-01-13 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Tossy Spivakovsky

Box 2, Reel 20 1290 1952-01-20 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic, David Frisina

Box 2, Reel 21 1295 1952-02-24 Scope and Contents note Sample, Portland Symphony Orchestra, Paulena Carter

Box 2, Reel 21 1296 1952-03-02 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Lili Kraus

Box 2, Reel 22 1297 1952-03-09 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra,

Box 2, Reel 22 1298 1952-03-16 Physical Description: folders Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Dorothy Dow

Box 3, Reel 1 1300 1952-03-30 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Caesar Curzi

Box 3, Reel 2 1301 1952-04-06 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Joseph Spivakovsky

Box 3, Reel 2 1302 1952-04-13 Scope and Contents note Monteux, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Dorothy Warenskjold

Box 3, Reel 3 1331 1952-11-02 Scope and Contents note Merola, San Francisco Opera, Blanche Thebom, Robert Weede

Box 3, Reel 3 1332 1952-11-09 Scope and Contents note Sample, Portland Symphony Orchestra, Zahava Edelsack

Guide to the Ed Wilkinson ARS.0092 9 Collection ARS.0092 1. Standard Hour broadcasts

Box 3, Reel 4 1343 1953-01-25 Scope and Contents note Wallenstein, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Arthur Grumiaux

Box 3, Reel 4 1344 1953-02-01 Scope and Contents note De Sabata, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Francis Yeend

Box 3, Reel 5 [no number] 1953-09-27 Scope and Contents note Serafin, San Francisco Opera Orchestra

Box 3, Reel 5 [no number] 1943-09-19 Scope and Contents note Merola, San Francisco Opera Orchestra

2. other broadcasts

Box 4, Reel 1, Donizetti. L'Elisir d'amore. Antonicelli, Metropolitan Opera 1949-12-24 Reel 2 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes Scope and Contents Includes intermission programs. NBC San Francisco linechecks, from collection of Adrian Michaelis. Transferred 1983.

Box 4, Reel 5, Gounod. Romeo and Juliet. Metropolitan Opera 1947-02-01 Reel 6 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes

Box 3, Reel 12 1947-07-27 Physical Description: 1 10.5" open reel tape Scope And Contents Symphony conducted by Vladimir Golschmann. Florence Quartararo, . From Standard Hour linechecks and AFRS discs from ARS Collection.

Box 4, Reel 10, Massenet. Manon. Wilfred Pelletier, Metropolitan Opera 1940-01-13 Reel 11 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes Scope and Contents From NBC lacquers, dubbed 1960, redubbed 1983.

Box 3, Reel 13-15 Yehudi Menuhin Private Recordings (notes enclosed) 1941-1953 Physical Description: 3 10.5" open reel tapes Scope and Contents note includes Town Hall concert with Wanda Landowska Dec. 20, 1944 ; Stage Door Canteen March 3, 1943 ; interviews, etc. Subjects and Indexing Terms Menuhin, Yehudi, 1916-1999

Box 4, Reel 7 Puccini. Madame Butterfly. Gennaro Papi, San Francisco Opera 1939-11-03 Physical Description: 1 7" open reel tapes Scope and Contents Act III not recorded. From NBC audition in Girard/Farwig collection, dubbed by Wilkinson 1983.

Guide to the Ed Wilkinson ARS.0092 10 Collection ARS.0092 2. other broadcasts

Box 4, Reel 8, Rossini. Il Barbiere di Siviglia. Gennaro Pap, Metropolitan Opera 1941-03-01 Reel 9 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes Scope and Contents From NBC linecheck in Girard/Farwig collection, dubbed by Wilkinson 1983.

Box 4, Reel 3, Saint-Saens. Samson and Delilah. Abravanel, Metropolitan Opera 1936-12-26 (reel 4 Reel 4 also contains Act 3 of , 1934-03-24) 1934-1936 Physical Description: 2 7" open reel tapes Scope aned Contents From NBC linechecks, dubbed 1960, pitched, edited and redubbed by Wilkinson 1982.

Box 3, Reel 11 Strauss. . Reiner, Metropolitan Opera (1949) 1949-12-03 Physical Description: 1 10.5" open reel tape

Box 3, Reel 9, Strauss. Der Rosenkavalier. Reiner, Metropolitan Opera (1951) 1951-02-24 Reel 10 Physical Description: 2 10.5" open reel tapes Scope and Contents Act I on Reel 9, acts II and III on Reel 10. "Present tape is a compound of a tape dub (majority of music) and linechecks/acetates, collection of A. Michaelis (intermissions, announcements, and two brief segments in Act I). Sound is good."

Box 3, Reel 8, Wagner. Die Meistersinger. Reiner, Metropolitan Opera 1953-01-10 Reel 9 Physical Description: 2 10.5" open reel tapes Existence and Location of Copies note Acts I and II on Reel 8. Act III on Reel 9. "Present tape is a composite of fair-sounding dub of highlights and a poorish AM dub of the complete performance, edited 1980 by E. Wilkinson. This is the only dub currently in circulation (April 1983)."

Box 4, Reel 4, Box Wagner. Lohengrin. Bodansky, Metropolitan Opera, Melchior (Box 3 contains Acts 1 3, Reel 6 and 2, Box 4 contains Act 3) 1934-03-24 Physical Description: 1 10.5" open reel tape

Box 3, Reel 7 Wagner. Die Walküre. McArthur, San Francisco Opera, Melchior, Flagstad (Portion of Act 2) 1939-10-24 Physical Description: 1 10.5" open reel tape

Box 3, Reel 7 Wagner. . McArthur, San Francisco Opera, Melchior, Flagstad (Portion of Act 1) 1939-10-20 Physical Description: 1 10.5" open reel tape

Guide to the Ed Wilkinson ARS.0092 11 Collection ARS.0092