There are four program files now on the web site and I have found a
serious factual error in one, a probable misidentification of the
recording in another, and have a general comment about the lack of
discographical information.
In the Les Paul piece it is repeatedly mentioned that it was his left
elbow that was broken and fused at a near right angle. EVERYBODY knows
it was his picking arm -- the RIGHT arm -- that this happened to.
Confirming information is everywhere. And in the March 4 press release
it is stated that he invented the "hollow body electric guitar". NO!
It is the SOLID body electric guitar that was his innovation. And
over-dubbing had been used for many years before he started using it.
In the Paganini program it is stated that the recording being played is
Heifetz's 1920 recording of Caprice No. 24. Now, I can't tell you which
caprice number is which, but because the recording sounded electric I
looked it up. Because the archive's page does not include the
discographical information (that would be expected from a sound archive)
I can't be sure what the recording played was, but it can't be #24 from
1920. In 1920 (9/16) Heifetz recorded #13 on Victor matrix B 24470-2
which was released on Victor 66037 and later coupled on Victor 670. Two
years earlier on 10/4/18 he recorded #20 on B 22274-2 which was
released on 64833 which was later the reverse of 670. It is not until
the mid-1930s that he recorded #24 which I first see in the 1936 catalog
on Victor 8828. That catalog also shows a pairing of #13 and #20 on
1697, but since the Victor Discography has not gotten beyond 1926 yet, I
don't know if these are re-recordings, nor the date of #24 which is not
yet in the 1934 catalog.
So, which recording is playing? Either the Caprice number is wrongly
stated or the year of recording is wrong. Perhaps someone with the
records or the Heifetz CD box set can identify it. Or the Belfer
people can check their record again.
And while the corrections are being made, please add a discographical
identification on each of the program pages -- there's plenty of room
and it is what is EXPECTED. Title and artist does NOT identify a
recording, and an archive should know this.
Oh, and lose the cue-burn scratch at the start of each program. It is
very disturbing.
Mike Biel [log in to unmask]
On 3/4/2011 12:15 PM, Mary Elizabeth Laverty wrote:
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> On Tuesday, March 1, at 3:30 p.m., WAER-FM 88.3 broadcast the inaugural episode of "Sound Beat," a new 90-second public radio module that highlights recordings from the Belfer Audio Archive at Syracuse University. For more on Sound Beathttp://insidesu.syr.edu/2011/03/03/sound-beat
> The Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive at Syracuse University has just joined the Special Collections Research Center in Bird Library. Our web pages and new email address can be found athttp://library.syr.edu/find/scrc .
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