Oh no! This is the same day as the Wayne NJ Mechanical Music show, so I
and many of us will be in the neighborhood, but I doubt Leah and I will
be finished buying records that early! The same problem as the
competitive scheduling now at ARSC conferences! Couldn't do it on
Saturday, eh?
Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
Jerry Fabris wrote:
> Thomas Edison NHP News Release
>
> National Park Service
> U.S. Department of the Interior
> Thomas Edison National Historical Park
> 211 Main Street
> West Orange, NJ 07052
> 973 736-0550 phone
> 973 736-6567 fax
>
> Contact: Jerry Fabris
> Phone: 973 736-0550 x 48
>
> HISTORIAN TIM BROOKS PRESENTATION AND BOOK SIGNING
> On The First African-American Recording Artists
>
> WEST ORANGE, NJ - On Sunday, April 18, 2010, at 2:00 pm, Thomas Edison
> National Historical Park welcomes award-winning historian Tim Brooks who
> will give a 50-minute illustrated presentation on the very earliest
> African-American recording artists. The program will be held at the
> Laboratory Complex on Main Street. Admission to the park is $7, children
> under 16 are free. There is no additional fee for the program. Seating is
> limited and reservations are required. Reservations can be made by calling
> 973-736-0550 ext.89.
>
> Among the audio pioneers who committed their voices and music to cylinders
> and discs in the years prior to and during World War I were Broadway star
> Bert Williams, "St. Louis Blues" composer W.C. Handy, jazz pioneers James
> Reese Europe and Wilbur Sweatman, the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Noble Sissle
> and Eubie Blake, concert artists Roland Hayes and Harry T. Burleigh, Paul
> Laurence Dunbar interpreter Edward Sterling Wright, boxing champ Jack
> Johnson and many others. Rarely heard recordings dating from the 1890s to
> 1919 are heard, providing a tapestry of evolving black culture during one
> of the most racially tumultuous periods in American history. Despite
> towering racial barriers and rampant discrimination, these pioneers from
> many fields of black music and art made themselves heard and profoundly
> changed the course of American culture in the years to come.
>
> Tim Brooks is a former television executive and a researcher of early
> recording artists and phonograph history. After the program, Brooks will
> sign copies of both his ground-breaking book "Lost Sounds: Blacks and the
> Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919," and the companion audio
> compact disc “Lost Sounds,” which won the 2007 Grammy award for “Best
> Historical Release.”
>
> The Laboratory Complex is open Wednesday through Sunday from 9:00am to
> 5:00pm. Glenmont, Edison’s home, is open Friday through Sunday from
> 11:30am to 5:00pm. Tickets for Glenmont must first be obtained at the
> Laboratory Complex visitor center before going to Glenmont. For more
> information or directions please call 973-736-0550 ext. 11 or visit our
> website at www.nps.gov/edis.
> -NPS-
>
> Link to download flyer: http://www.box.net/shared/ks3hymjvf9
> Link to download press release: http://www.box.net/shared/om892s1qtk
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