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WHAT’S HAPPENING

■ Our joint record label with Topic Records continues to ■ Sabina Wynn, Australian Film Commission spent a flourish. We compiled a sampler CD of 15 tracks from the day at the British Library during September to learn Topic series that went out as a covermount on the about the wide range of activities undertaken by a sound September issue of Songlines magazine. This coincided archive with national responsibilities for cultural heritage. nicely with the issue of three new CDs in the series: This fact-finding mission was in connection with the Drumming and chanting in God’s own country: the temple impending assumption of responsibility for ScreenSound music in Kerala in South India; The King’s Musicians: Australia (the national film and sound archive) by the Royalist music of Buganda – Uganda; and Gumboot guitar: Australian Film Commission. Zulu street guitar music from South Africa. ■ We have established a partnership with an agency that supplies audio and visual content to the mobile phone industry. Our agreement is limited to the wildlife collection, where issues of copyright ownership are less restrictive. Only the latest polyphonic handsets are able to handle sound recordings of respectable quality, so we had anticipated a slow start to public interest and sales. In Janet Caddock fact, coverage in the Daily Telegraph generated a great At the Vietnamese Oral History Project event deal of secondary media coverage in both print and ■ On 7 April we held a large event in the BL Conference broadcast media around the world. In time, we hope (and Centre in conjunction with Refugee Action for the expect) that the recordings we have supplied will be used Vietnamese Oral History Project. Over 100 attended to not just for mobile phone ringtones, but also for general celebrate the end of the project and the launch of a CD audio content for the next generation of mobile phones. and booklet. As well as the main presentations, in Cantonese, English, and Vietnamese, there were exhibits ■ Following on from the popular exhibition on 50 years organised by the community, including a young people’s of no.1 chart hits, reported in the last issue, the Sound art exhibition, live traditional music, and a display of Archive continues to provide material for exhibitions in some of the BL’s own Vietnamese manuscripts. the St Pancras foyer at the British Library. To mark the ■ During August the British Library Sound Archive was 400th anniversary of the first printed edition of Hamlet, ■ Following a review of the operations and structure of represented by Richard Ranft at the 19th International an audio display during June and July provided scholars the Archive, appointments to three new posts have been Bioacoustics Congress in Belém, Brazil. As Secretary to and theatre-lovers alike the chance to hear and compare made. Chris Clark becomes Head of Selection & the Council, Richard delivered the opening and closing the styles of some of the most memorable and acclaimed Documentation, Richard Ranft takes on the role of Head speeches and chaired the AGM. During a busy week he Hamlet actors including Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1906), of Technical Services, and Jane Harvell as Head of Access also contributed to a symposium on bioacoustic audio John Barrymore (1928); Gielgud (ca 1957), Olivier with an additional remit for co-ordination of web archives, and led a round table on bioacoustics (1949), Richard Burton (1964, from the Broadway content across the whole of the Sound Archive’s parent publications. This hard work was rewarded by a post- production directed by Gielgud), and Peter O’Toole live department, British Collections. Crispin Jewitt continues Congress excursion into the Amazon rainforest, which at in 1963, the first theatre performance to as Head of the Sound Archive. We said farewell to Alan resulted in some new field recordings for the Archive be recorded by the Sound Archive, then known as the Ward in June, who retired from a long period of service back home in London. British Institute of Recorded Sound. which included latterly the editorship of this Bulletin. 2 6280 Playback No 30 17/3/2004 2:08 pm Page 3

THE SPOKEN WORD Three new literary CDs by Richard Fairman Although the Sound Archive has previously released of his voice, comprising one chapter from Winnie-the- CDs incorporating spoken word recordings, it has never Pooh, which is also one of the earliest commercial before looked specifically to its drama and literature spoken word recordings to survive; J.R.R. Tolkien, who collection. This year three CDs have been published is heard reading from The Hobbit; and Roald Dahl, under the series title ‘The Spoken Word’ – one each reading an extract from Charlie and the Chocolate devoted to historic recordings of writers and poets, the Factory. third devoted to children’s literature. Of the others, five expressly made new recordings: The ‘Children’s Writers’ CD is newly published this Michael Bond, reading from Paddington Helps Out; November. The producer of the CD, Richard Fairman, Raymond Briggs, reading Jim and the Beanstalk; says: ‘There is nothing to equal the author’s voice Booker-prize winner Penelope Lively reading from The reading children’s stories, as A.A. Milne did to his son, Ghost of Thomas Kempe; and Jacqueline Wilson and Christopher Robin, and J.R.R. Tolkien to his children. Anne Fine reading from their award-winning books, Too many of the great children’s writers died without Double Act and Flour Babies respectively. Penelope leaving us any recording of their voices – for example, Lively, Anne Fine and Raymond Briggs appear on disc Kenneth Grahame and Arthur Ransome, or others who here for the first time. Extracts from Philip Pullman’s left very little, such as Mary Norton and Enid Blyton. I was a Rat! and Michael Morpurgo’s Why the Whales But we believe that the range of authors on this CD came are taken from the authors’ existing recordings.

provides a unique and fascinating reflection of the The other two CDs – The Spoken Word – Poets and Left: Arthur Conan Doyle © The British Library Board [10804.i.3, folio 70] changing world of children’s story-telling over the The Spoken Word – Writers – were released at the end Right: Robert Browning © The British Library Board [P.P.1931.pcg] past 100 years.’ of May 2003. The idea behind these is to look back at Three of the ten writers represented are now the earliest generation of writers and poets whose commercial recordings are Rebecca West, Compton deceased: A.A. Milne, who left a single recording voices have survived, starting with Robert Browning and Mackenzie, Hugh Walpole and Edgar Wallace, the Alfred Tennyson in 1889/90. latter reading the first story ever to have had its first The Spoken Word – Poets features the voices of 24 publication in the form of a recording. We must be poets. Central to this period is the generation of young grateful to the BBC for rare recordings of H.G. Wells, poets who fought in the First World War. Unfortunately, Rudyard Kipling, G.K. Chesterton and John Buchan, no recordings were made of Edward Thomas, Rupert as well as the sole surviving example of the voice of Brooke, Wilfred Owen or T.E. Hulme before their deaths . Two particularly rare recordings are on active service. Instead, the war years are represented included on this CD: one of the controversial 1941 by previously unreleased broadcast readings by Siegfried broadcasts made from Berlin by P.G. Wodehouse; and Sassoon and, perhaps most appropriately, by Laurence a 1954 private recording of Vita Sackville-West, in Binyon's For the Fallen. Where possible, we tried to which she reads a then unpublished extract from her select rarities for inclusion, notably the readings by own manuscript copy of Woolf’s Orlando. Rudyard Kipling and Laurence Binyon, and previously unissued live recordings, such as those by Hugh The three CDs are available separately from the MacDiarmid and Robert Graves. British Library Bookshop, price £9.95 each, plus The Spoken Word – Writers features 23 recordings postage, either online at www.bl.uk, or by phone drawn from various sources. Among the earliest on +44 (0)20 7412 7735. 3 6280 Playback No 30 17/3/2004 2:08 pm Page 4

ACQUISITIONS 2002-3

■ Drama and Literature ■ Popular Music

Notable live theatre recordings made during the last Among recent items added to our collection six months include and Richard Thomas’s have been some notable limited editions. The Jerry Springer - The Opera, Michael Frayn’s recordings that Frank Sinatra made for Reprise Democracy, and David Mamet’s Edmond, starring Records (a company which Sinatra founded) Kenneth Branagh, all at the . between 1960 and 1988 have been repackaged At the Royal Court Theatre Suzan-Lori Parks’s by Warner Music into a handsome leather suitcase Topdog/Underdog featured the London stage containing 20 CDs. The CDs contained 452 songs, debut of American actor and rap artist Mos Def. 18 of which had never been released, accompanied PEN International Writers’ Day, which this year by a 96 page hardcover book. The Sound Archive took place at Senate House, featured talks and acquired set no 11901 from a worldwide edition readings by Professor Steven Pinker, Toby Litt, Hari of 20,000. Kunzru, Carlos Fuentes, Rachel Cusk, Hanif Kureishi Capitol Records have issued a 4-CD boxed set and Monica Ali. Writers recorded at the Royal Society of The Beach Boys entitled The Pet Sounds Sessions, of Literature, , included Rose based on their 1966 No.1 album Pet Sounds. This Tremain, U.A. Fanthorpe and Peter Porter. contains the first ever true stereo mix of the album; Donations ranged from the literary - Robert a disc of the original mono album, remastered using Fraser’s source interview tapes for his biography state of the art technology; and two further discs of poet George Barker - to the paranormal - Dan including final instrumental takes in stereo without Zerdin’s unique acetate discs of a séance conducted vocals as well as the vocals without the tracks. by his father in 1934 in the Aeolian Hall, Bond Street. Other imperfect takes are included and the package Commercial acquisitions include: Beckett on Film, is completed by a substantial book. a four-DVD set of 19 film interpretations by 19 In 1999, to commemorate the centenary of directors of plays by Samuel Beckett; This Craft of Duke Ellington’s birth, BMG compiled the complete Verse, a four-CD set issued by Harvard University series of his RCA recordings into a lavish 24-CD set Press of lectures in English by Jorge Luis Borges, in a luxurious linen-covered box. (Ellington made recorded in 1967-8; Anthologie Céline 1894-1961, quite a few recordings for other companies in the the first comprehensive compilation of the recorded 1950s and 60’s, but those fall beyond the remit of legacy of notorious French novelist Céline; 23 this set.) A lavish book in 10” x 10” format (subtly videos by the Danish site-specific theatre group recalling the size of the majority of the records Odin Teatret; and Tony Benn’s Greatest Hits, on which the earlier recordings appeared) a CD which, according to the sleeve, presents accompanies the 24 CDs. The earlier (pre-tape) ‘a unique collaboration combining the veteran records are transferred to a very high standard politician’s greatest speeches with 21st-century and interestingly include the rare early experimental ambient groove’. long playing and stereo records from the 1930s.

Jerry Springer – the Opera Royal National Theatre 4 (Jerry) with members of the company Kenneth Branagh in Edmond David Bedella (Satan) Photo: Manuel Harlan Photos: Catherine Ashmore 6280 Playback No 30 17/3/2004 2:08 pm Page 5

FROM THE TURBINE HALL Live Culture at by Steve Cleary ■

Donations of 78rpm shellac discs are still constantly being The four day ‘Live Culture’ programme of films, talks all of whom had been placed together in one small made: recently three dozen English brass band discs on and performances held at Tate Modern in March this area for maximum effect. the Regal label from the 1930s and ’40s were given, of year gave a broad public the chance to engage with For Sound Archive users wishing to gain a quick which the Sound Archive had no existing copies. And work by leading artists and theorists in the field of overview of the season, a 30-minute compilation of then shortly after this, quite by coincidence, another contemporary performance. The Sound Archive has, selected highlights - featuring excerpts from all the collector gave 249 10-inch 78rpm discs of brass bands. thanks to the Live Art Development Agency and the performances mentioned here - is available for viewing Among the special purchases made recently were film production company Illuminations, acquired through the Listening & Viewing Service. Appointments recordings required by two of last year’s Edison visiting unedited rushes on digital video of the keynote can be made by telephone to 020 7412 7418 or by Fellows. Dr Rhiannon Mathias of the University of Wales, performances held in the Tate’s Turbine Hall. e-mail to [email protected] Bangor, was working on the private collection of The season opened with Oleg Kulik, Russia’s best recordings donated by the composer Elisabeth Lutyens known performance artist. In Armadillo for Your Show which she was able to investigate in conjunction with the he is suspended high above the audience, his body a autograph manuscripts. Dr. Mathias discovered that the mosaic of reflective material, revolving like a human Sound Archive did not hold recordings of some of mirror ball. Back on the ground, Forced Entertainment Lutyens’s film scores written for the Crown Film Unit and revived their durational pieces 12am: Awake and the Central Office of Information, but these we were able Looking Down and the marathon Q&A session to obtain from the . Quizoola! Acclaimed Spanish artist and choreographer John Parsons of Cardiff University has been working as La Ribot presented Panoramix, a series of 34 solo a Visiting Fellow on a doctoral dissertation on ‘Stylistic pieces, created during the period 1993-2000, which change in the Hungarian Violin School 1910-1940’. We use the naked female body to explore the relation obtained for him dubbings of some very rare American between visual art, performance, and dance. commercial discs of pupils of the Hungarians he is Some bold members of the audience took up the studying from the Library of Congress and loans from invitation of Guillermo Gomez-Pena to join one of the University of California at Los Angeles. We were also able tableaux composing his Ex-Centris (A Living Diorama to obtain a second-hand copy of a Hungaroton LP of of Fetish-ized Others). There was also an element of performances by Ede Zathurecsky through a dealer in audience participation invited in Franko B’s typically Franko B at Tate Modern (courtesy Illuminations) Milwaukee. disturbing piece I Miss You, which appropriated the Privately made recordings which have recently been conventions of the fashion show. In silence the In 2004, the Live Culture event will be documented donated to the section include seven recorded impassive artist paced a narrow canvas ‘catwalk’, his in print by a major publication from Tate Publishing performances given to members of the London Organ blood dripping to the floor from two incisions on his containing essays from key writers in the field and Club in 1975 by leading Parisian organists including arms. He was greeted as he paused and turned by an visual documentation of works featured in the season. Jean-Jacques Grunenwald at Saint-Sulpice, Jean Langlais explosion of flashbulbs - from the regular press pack The Sound Archive’s video holdings will form a valuable at Sainte-Clotilde, James Boeringer at the Chapel Royal at and from members of the public armed with cameras, counterpart to this publication. Versailles, and Pierre Cochereau at Notre Dame.

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■ Recent additions to the UNEXPECTED FUTURES Sound Archive library Haemophilia and HIV Life History Project by Sian Edwards For the Record: The Life and Work of Alex Steinweiss Jennifer McKnight-Trontz & Alex Steinweiss “I didn’t think I would live Princeton Architectural Press A biography of Steinweiss, who effectively invented album longer than say two to three cover art in the 1930s years after I found out. Caruso Records: A History and Discography John R Bolig Mainspring I’m still here after eighteen An updating of the Caruso reference work from 1990 years...If I’m here this Young, Gifted and Black: the Story of Trojan Records Christmas, it’s a bonus.” Michael Koningh & Lawrence Care-Honeysett Sanctuary Publishing John diagnosed with HIV in 1984 A history of the pioneer reggae label The Continuum Encyclopaedia of Popular Music of the World Vol 1 - Media, Industry and Society The first interviews of a new collection arrived at the Vol 2 - Performance and Production Sound Archive in September. The Haemophilia and HIV Continuum International Publishing Life History Project is led by a team from Brighton A landmark reference work for popular music University and South Bank University with the active The Blackwell Guide to Soul Records involvement of Rob James, patient consultant for the Robert Pruter Blackwell NHS and chair of Birchgrove, a self-help group for This guide to soul recordings focusses mainly on the US those with Haemophilia and HIV. The project is Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography John Cale supported by Heritage Lottery Fund. Tim Mitchell Peter Owen Over 1,200 adults and children with haemophilia A biography of the former Velvet Undergrounder were infected with HIV in the early 1980s by receiving A-Z of Doom, Gothic & Stoner Metal contaminated blood products; more than 800 of those A wood of 1,200 trees was planted at Stratton near Swindon Garry Sharpe -Young Cherry Red Books have died. Doctors, social scientists and journalists have to commemorate the lives of those people with haemophilia who Described by the publisher as “laboured, mournful and were infected with HIV written extensively about this remarkable social, crushingly heavy. The anaesthetising, sloth like riffs of Doom political and medical event, but the voices of people Metal, the bong fuelled lazy retro Rock that is Stoner and the melancholy strains of Gothic Metal - it’s all here.” with haemophilia and HIV infection have rarely been months, making this the largest collection of life heard. There are many people with haemophilia and histories of people with haemophilia and HIV in the HIV still alive and they have a fascinating story to tell world. Once the collection has been completed the We continue to add to our collection of discographies. Over the of their experiences and the impact of having plan is to disseminate the findings to promote a wider past year we have acquired US label discographies for Capitol, Columbia, Elite, Keystone, MGM, RCA Victor, Signature, haemophilia and living with HIV. This project will understanding, raise awareness and stimulate informed Associated Transcriptions and World Transcriptions. New artist ensure that those personal experiences and feelings will debate of the issues that are faced by people with discographies include Cab Calloway & His Orchestra 1925-1958; be explicitly included in the history of HIV in the UK. haemophilia and HIV. The life stories of Robert and Doris Day 1939-1968; Billy Eckstine 1940-1989; Helen Forrest Thirty interviews are planned over the next 18 John are the first two to be archived. 1938-1975; Erskine Hawkins & His Orchestra 1938-1971.

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■ Wildlife major gap in our coverage of south European and east Pentagram Design Group including Kenneth Grange, European birds (WA2003/47); a landmark collection from designer of the Kenwood Chef Barry Truax of Simon Fraser University of radio ■ an interview with one of the only surviving Romany programmes produced in 1974 by the World Soundscape Holocaust survivors living in Britain Project (C1064); and over 5,000 recordings on CD of birds ■ an interview with David Gentleman about his stamp of Ecuador (WA2003/03), complete with electronic designs for the Post Office Oral History Project catalogue, from Dr. Niels Krabbe of Denmark. ■ an interview with Antony Gormley, sculptor of the Other highlights from overseas include a remarkable ‘Planets’, situated in the piazza of the British Library recording of a Blue Whale, the largest creature to have ■ rare recordings on disc of Morgan Phillips, General ever lived on Earth, which required the Sound Archive’s Secretary of the Labour Party (1944-62) made in the largest loudspeakers to replay the deep 16Hz sounds late 1940s (WA2002/30); and the first recording of the Sakalava Rail ■ a series of recorded memories of the Courtauld Family of western Madagascar, a species that is extremely hard to at Eltham Palace, the renowned Art Deco building

S.Elliott find owing to its tiny population in remote wetland habitat recently restored by English Heritage Dr. Simon Elliott, one of Britain’s leading nature recordists (WA2003/19). The recording will prove valuable for ■ a recording with John Church of Church’s Shoes for a surveys by scientists trying to conserve this critically new Oral History of British Fashion Each year the Wildlife Section receives many donations of endangered bird. We also received a tape of the rare ■ an interview with award-winning war photographer unpublished field recordings originally made for different Indigo-winged Parrot from Colombia made with Simon Norfolk for the Oral History of British purposes by professional scientists, birdwatchers, or film- equipment loaned by the Sound Archive (WA2002/29). Photography makers, or by conservationists undertaking field surveys. The species, from the high Andes, had not been seen ■ 27 new interviews were added to the Lives in the Oil During the year, we received several donations of high- since 1911 and news of its rediscovery was broadcast Industry collection, making a total of 127 in the quality recordings of British wildlife from some of Britain’s around the world’s media. collection as a whole. This project is expected to leading amateur sound recordists, Dr Simon Elliott continue until mid-2005 (WA2002/52, WA 2002/33), Dr Philip Radford ■ Oral History (WA2003/54, WA2003/48, WA2003/37, WA2003/29), Phil Riddett (WA2003/57) and Kyle Turner (WA2003/16). Among the donations received over the past year was a Recordings are also donated by British biologists and valuable series of open-reel interviews undertaken in East recordists living or travelling overseas. Recent contributions Africa (Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania) in the summer of 1969, include important digital collections of Brazilian bird predominately with members of the East African Asian sounds from British ornithologist Jeremy Minns community and Africans, but supplemented with (WA2003/17), and of birds of China and India, about interviews with economists, members of the Welsh 6,800 recordings in all, from British ornithologist Paul Holt community in Tanzania, and a personnel officer in London. (WA2003/35); the A.R Gregory collection of sounds of Christie Davies deposited these together with 20 open reel Kenyan birds (200 reels, WA2003/44); and 72 cassettes of tapes undertaken for a proposed BBC Radio programme nocturnal mammals and other wildlife of East Africa from on life in Godmanchester at the turn of the century, but the Nocturnal Primate Research Group at Oxford Brookes never broadcast; and seven recordings for a proposed BBC University (WA2003/43). Other important collections Radio programme on debt collection. Other important came from overseas: 240 tape reels from leading German acquisitions include: bioacoustician Professor Hans-Heiner Bergmann, filling a ■ interviews with surviving members of the famous

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If you are not already on the Sound Archive’s mailing list and would like to be, please fill in and return this slip to PLAYBACK, The British Library Sound Archive, 96 Euston Road, London NW1 2DB ADDRESS SRPROFILE USER Thea King r music, we used to creep into to widen our experience of hearing for my generation. If we wanted something that was barely possible performers from the past – as it can be so valuable to hear don’t know what they are missing, want to listen music, but they performing musicians often don’t students visited as often. Young Unfortunately, I don’t think my music of the 1930s and ‘40s. probably came to hear English around the corner. I imagine that Music at the time, which was just professor at the Royal College of in South Kensington, as I was a when it was at Exhibition Road several occasions in the days I visited the Sound Archive on Sound Archive? How did you first hear of the ehearsals at the . piano. Thea King is the first ever wind player to be honoured with a DBE. appearing as the double soloist in Brahms Quintets for both and instruments in a Brahms sonata for the BBC’s ‘Double Exposure’ series and she has sometimes doubled her roles on clarinet and piano, recording both Ireland, Elisabeth Lutyens, Humphrey Searle and . As a pianist, Mozart Players. Among the premieres she has given are works by John celebrated periods with the English Chamber Orchestra and London unique in Britain at the time. Her orchestral commitments have included the Portia Wind Ensemble, a double wind quintet of women musicians, One of her earliest chamber music connections was as a founder member , whom she later married, at the . Dame Thea King is one of the world’s leading clarinettists. She studied with but it is of very poor quality and I publishers, Boosey and Hawkes, performance made by the acetate recording of that I have of my husband is an old the piece. Among memorabilia time that Ireland himself played Thurston. It was probably the only given by my husband, Frederick clarinet and piano which had been John Ireland’s Fantasy Sonata for I wanted to hear a broadcast of What did you come to hear? equipment was of good quality. my appointment and the listening Everything was ready on time for staggered at how impressive it is. British Library building and I was This was my first visit to the new Service at St. Pancras? of using the Listening & Viewing How was your recent experience to see what else you might have. should really search the catalogue performance by my husband. I broadcasts might include this Archive’s holdings of historic occurred to me that the Sound the past and, when I saw list, it of recordings by clarinet players of lecture, he played various extracts the British Library. To illustrate his which the Sound Archive runs at gave one of the Saul Seminars An ex-pupil of mine, , in the Sound Archive’s holdings? What made you think of looking anniversary of my husband’s death. producing to mark the 50th rights to use it on a CD that I am that I was unable to clear the indeed it was, but was a shame Archive’s tape might be better. And was hoping that the Sound EVENTS [email protected] T +44 (0)20 7412 7332 T 23 March called him ‘a virtuoso in the true Romantic style’. Liszt on 95 CDs for Hyperion. Howard recorded the solo piano music of Franz the player today? Between 1986 and 1999, Leslie Which recordings might seize the imagination of of pupils like Moriz Rosenthal and Emil von Sauer. have done - but there are recordings by a handful Liszt himself made no recordings - he could just performing tradition’ by Leslie Howard ■ 17 February to its complex and sometimes obscure history. interpretation. Recordings are the chief witnesses product not so much of intention as other standards, it is infinitely malleable, a is given new meanings in each performance - like have had in mind when he wrote it, is a song that ‘Miss Otis Regrets’, whatever Cole Porter may Regrets’ by Cliff Eisen (King’s College, London) ■ 2 December emergent ensembles of old instruments. traditions, and from actually working with sources, by taking hints from other vocal styles from archival, literary, and iconographical will describe the challenges of re-creating vocal timbres and methods of articulation? Nigel Rogers How have singers attempted to cultivate old by Nigel Rogers ■ Admission free, by ticket All in the Conference Centre, starting at 18.15pm At the British Library Studies in Recorded Music 2003 THE SAUL SEMINARS ickets from the British Library Events Office ‘Liszt on Record – a curiously imperfect ‘Who’s sorry now? Performing Miss Otis’s ‘The Re-creation of Baroque singing styles’ The Guardian (London) has