Newsletter Association for Recorded Sound Collections Number 123 • Summer 2010 We Know What It Means to Miss Events August 9–13, 2010
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Newsletter Association For Recorded Sound Collections Number 123 • Summer 2010 We Know What It Means To Miss Events August 9–13, 2010. International Society for Music Information Retrieval 11th New Orleans: 2010 Conference Recap Conference (ISMIR 2010), Utrecht, Netherlands In 2010, for the first time in its history, ARSC met in New Orleans, Louisiana. http://ismir2010.ismir.net/ New Orleans is one of the most distinctively musical cities in America, and it was, to put it mildly, a smash hit August 10–15, 2010. SAA/COSA Joint Annual with the 200-plus attendees. Meeting, Washington DC. In a survey taken after the http://www.archivists.org/ conference, attendees raved August 14th and 15th, 2010. California about the location. Asked Antique Phonograph Society (CAPS) what they liked best about the 25th Annual Show and Sale. Buena Park, CA. conference, they responded: http://www.ca-phono.org/ “A great location.” “Great August 23–27, 2010. 11th International location! Great program!” Conference on Music Perception and “New Orleans – the music Cognition. Seattle, WA. http://depts. – the food.” “NOLA was a washington.edu/icmpc11/ terrific choice.” “The loca- tion was wonderful.” “Loca- Veteran record makers panel. From left to right: October 15–17, 2010. OnLine AudioVisual tion!!!” Harold Battiste, Wardell Quezergue, Bob French, Catalogers (OLAC) Conference. Macon, Dave Bartholomew. Standing, right: Ira “Dr. Ike” GA. http://www.olacinc.org/drupal/ The program was enthusi- Padnos. Photograph by Michael Devecka. astically received as well. It conference/2010/index.html opened on Wednesday with a well-attended workshop on “Disaster Planning and October 27, 2010. United Nations World Recovery for Audio Materials” (appropriate for a city that had undergone the rav- Day for AV Heritage. ages of a major hurricane five years earlier), presented by the Education and Train- November 1–6, 2010. AMIA/IASA ing Committee. The formal conference began on Thursday morning with a plenary Joint Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA. session featuring the well-known author John Broven, who has been researching http://www.iasa-web.org the music of New Orleans and South Louisiana since the 1960s. He was followed by a panel of veteran New Orleans record-makers that will be talked about for November 4–7, 2010. Audio Engineering years to come. The four legends, all in their 70s and 80s, were Harold Battiste Society 129th Convention.San Francisco, (founder of the AFO label), Bob French (longtime New Orleans session player and California. http://www.aes.org/events/129/ leader of the Tuxedo Jazz Band), Wardell Quezergue (bandleader and arranger), Please send notices of events to the editor. and Dave Bartholomew (bandleader, Fats Domino’s musical director, and com- poser of many rock ’n’ roll and R&B hits of the 1950s and 1960s). They all knew Contents each other well and reminisced about the musical heyday of New Orleans in the 2010 ARSC Conference pages 1, 4, 5 mid-20th century, when much of the music that defined America originated in New President’s Message page 2 Orleans studios. The historic session was organized by Ira “Dr. Ike” Padnos of the Letters page 3 Ponderosa Stomp Foundation (http://ponderosastompfoundation.org), which is Pre-Conference Workshop page 5 dedicated to preserving New Orleans music, and to which ARSC owes a great debt Awards Committee pages 6–8 of gratitude. Cataloging Committee page 9 This was followed by a full day of sessions covering a wide range of topics. Grants Awards Committee page 10 In one room, staff from the Institute of Jazz Studies at Rutgers reported on the News from Institutions pages 10–15 digitization of their large Benny Goodman and Benny Carter collections, while in New York Chapter page 14 another, Roberta Freund Schwartz talked about early recordings of Renaissance New ARSC Members pages 16–17 (Continued on p. 4) Association for Recorded Sound Collections www.arsc-audio.org President’s Message My involvement with ARSC goes back to the mid-1980s (I really can’t remember exact dates) when I was a member of the AAA com- mittee, which at that time stood for Associated Audio Archives. I never ARSC Newsletter envisioned then that I would one day be serving as president of ARSC, but I am honored and excited to be assuming the office at this time. Issue 123 The organization is healthy financially, we had an excellent conference Summer 2010 in New Orleans in May, and next year’s conference in Los Angeles The ARSC Newsletter is published three times a year, (you’ll read more about that in this issue) promises to be one of our in July, October, and February. Submissions should be best yet. I am blessed with a board of dedicated and hard-working indi- addressed to the editor. Submissions by email are viduals, a wonderful executive director, Peter Shambarger, who I will encouraged. be leaning on heavily, as well as past president, friend, and colleague David Seubert, whose shoes I will try very hard to fill. In his two years Editor as president, David has had to make some tough but necessary deci- sions to keep the organization healthy and he has accomplished much. Franz Kunst Under his administration, ARSC was able to get copyright reform Stanford University Libraries legislation through the U.S. Congress, attendance records were set at 1450 Page Mill Road our conferences, and the National Recording Preservation Board is on track to do some wonderful things. Palo Alto, CA 94304-1124 My challenge is to continue the work started by my predecessor and [email protected] lead ARSC to equally fine accomplishments during my term as presi- dent. In fact, at our board meeting in October we will devote some time to discussing what we think ARSC should look like in five years, and Board of Directors some of the specific initiatives that can help get us there. I would be remiss if I didn’t thank our conference manager Brenda Vincent Pelote, President Nelson-Strauss, who works so hard on our annual meetings, and I hope David Seubert, Past President she continues to do so while I am president. She has been ably assisted Tim Brooks, Second Vice President/ Program Chair by Kurt Nauck, who informed me he will be stepping back from those Marsha Maguire, Secretary/Editor, ARSC Bulletin duties, and I thank him for his service. As you all know, ARSC’s busi- Steven I. Ramm, Treasurer ness is done by volunteers and the organization will remain viable only Peter Shambarger, Executive Director if folks step up and either run for office or agree to join or chair one Sarah Cunningham, Member-at-Large of our committees. We currently have two committee chair vacancies: David Giovannoni, Member-at-Large AAA (Associated Audio Archivists) and the Discography Committee. Anyone interested in chairing either committee can contact me directly. Claims or other notifications of issues not I hope, too, that you will share with me your thoughts about where received must be sent to: ARSC is going and what issues and projects are of particular interest. Executive Director You can contact me by email at: [email protected] or call PO Box 543 me at 973-353-5801. Annapolis, MD 21404-0543 Finally, one of the things David did that I hope to continue was to [email protected] use the president’s columns in the newsletter to address important is- sues facing the organization and profession. I will try to continue that practice and I, too, hope to use the newsletter to raise questions and Special thanks to Jill Breedon for copy editing the ARSC Newsletter. discuss issues of importance, and not just rehash the organization’s business. I’ll make this first column a short one. You’ll be hearing more from me in the next two years. Now let me hear from you. Vincent Pelote, ARSC President ARSC Newsletter 2 Number 123 • Summer 2010 www.arsc-audio.org Association for Recorded Sound Collections Letters to the Editor Dear Editor, ARSC 2011 In 2008, the co-distributors MGM and UA released the motion picture Valkyrie, starring the (praised but) miscast The 45th annual ARSC Conference will be held at the Wilshire Grand Tom Cruise as the German colonel placed in charge of the in downtown Los Angeles, California on May 11–14, 2011. 15th and final failed attempt on Adolf Hitler’s life. Other The conference will be hosted by the UCLA Ethnomusicology Archive actors gave commendable performances, and the man who in honor of their 50th anniversary. Save the date! played the part of Hitler was outstanding. The conspirators http://arsc-audio.org/conference/ actually named their effort Operation Walkuere. There’s a most interesting aspect to this film that’s been overlooked. The movie’s title is closely linked to what in Dear Editor: effect is the title song, Richard Wagner’s Walkuere (note: I have a recent publication that will be of interest to I’ve spelled the word with the letter e following the u, ARSC members. My article “Splicing the Sonic Color-line: which is a substitute for the lack of an umlaut in my type Tony Schwartz Remixes Postwar Nueva York,” published font). in Social Text’s Spring 2010 special issue on “The Politics The producer-director Brian Singer amazingly utilized of Recorded Sound,” introduces readers to Tony Schwartz, the 1928 Deutsche Grammophon (founded in 1898 by my sound artist and audio thinker, and reads his 1955 Folkways grandfather, Emile, the inventor of the microphone and recording Nueva York as symptomatic of the ways in which the disc record-playing gramophone) Berlin Philharmoni- listening experiences both reflect and generate ideas about ker recording of the work.