SO I went through everything last night and have questions for the
group...if the idea is to publicize this to the greater public...that means
that it is different than choosing what might be the most "important"
tracks, right? Having big names attached...known songs...unexpected
recordings are just incredible (for me, the Cuban recording,,,,different
for others)....and yes, some "firsts" as well!

I personally think it might be wise to side-step much of the minstrel stuff
because if this is for a wide audience, might be best to avoid the politics
(but not trying to start a whole thread on this issue, which I am happy to
do in another place) and to make sure the ten are diverse in every way
including genre (which given the breath of what has been presented (the
curation has been great), is easy to do).

Does that sound right?

David (Katznelson)

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 7:30 PM Michael Biel <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Would it hurt, would it really really hurt, to instead of telling us there
> was a reminder and they some did get the list, to instead POST THE
> LIST????????!!!
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> Dear Nathan,
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> I checked my ARSC mail and also the spam folder, but nothing arrived on
> the 17th.
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> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 6:26 PM Nathan Georgitis <[log in to unmask]>
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> > Hi Peter, and all ARSC members,
> >
> > Please check your email for a message from ARSC sent Wed, November 17
> > with subject "ARSC Pre-1923 Survey Reminder".
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Nathan
> >
> >
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> > Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2021 3:05 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] ARSC List of Notable pre-1923 recordings, just
> > posted
> >
> > Sorry to come to the list with a problem, but I do not see any link to
> > this list of pre-1923 recordings. I have searched the past three
> > months of the archives and the thread seems to start with Gary's post
> > of Nov. 9., which obviously refers to something that appeared before
> > he wrote. I'd love to see a link to the list, but, either the link
> > appeared back in the summer or I am just missing something. I have to
> > say that this is not the first time I have seen comments on a post that
> I'm pretty sure I did not see.
> > Maybe my mail settings or the settings of the person responsible for
> > posting are the root of the problem, but I have no idea how to
> > troubleshoot this.
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >
> > Peter Hirsch
> >
> > On Sat, Nov 20, 2021 at 7:17 PM Alex McGehee <[log in to unmask]>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Nice comments Gary. Maybe others have mentioned that the Brahms
> > > Hungarian Dance No. 5 wasn’t even by Brahms. It was the work of the
> > > Hungarian composer Béla Kéler. I think Brahms thought he had a
> > > traditional folksong on his hands. The Brahms version was written
> > > for piano four hands, and god knows how much of his own orchestral
> > > thinking Stokowski put into the Victor version.
> > >
> > > My main objection to its inclusion is that this work was endlessly
> > > programmed for concerts from its publication to the date of this
> > > Victor recording. An old chestnut if ever there was one. It
> > > represents lazy thinking in the classical music repertoire to choose
> > > it, if I might
> > say so.
> > >
> > > Far worthier would be the near complete version of Haydn’s Symphony No.
> > > 94, recorded in Victor’s Camden, New Jersey studio on the 11th and
> > > 12th of Nov. 1912. Yeah, I know it’s a chestnut now too, but a
> > > century ago Haydn was finally emerging from more than a century’s
> > > worth of neglect. He’s certainly a greater composer than Brahms and
> > > before someone gets angry,, consider that appraisal was by Brahms
> himself.
> > >
> > > An even more noteworthy recording would be Victor’s release of
> > > Haydn’s Symphony No. 100, Walter B. Rogers (Victor’s house
> > > conductor) and the Victor Concert Orchestra. UCSB gives the dates as
> > > June 5, 1913 and Oct. 28, 1915. Both symphonies suffer abridgments
> > > and are the arrangements of Theodore Moses Tobani, done primarily
> > > for purposes related to the technical limitations of the acoustical
> > > recording process with full orchestral forces. So with Symphony 100,
> > > the slow introduction is jettisoned, but the rest of the first
> > > movement is complete. Twenty bars from the second movement are cut,
> > > but they are somewhat a repetition of the movement's first 20 bars,
> > > so the movement seems as if it is complete to most listeners. The
> > > third and fourth
> > movements are both complete.
> > >
> > > Back to the Brahms. I know it sounds really great, but so do these
> > > Haydn recordings and they were done years earlier than the Brahms.
> > > They are also of far greater significance in the early recordings of
> > concert repertoire.
> > > I haven’t found sound files for No. 94, except for its second
> > > movement, which UCSB has. Neither UCSB or the National Jukebox has
> > anything from No.
> > > 100, but the British Library has all of it and it sounds wonderful.
> > >
> > > And if I may land one more punch for Haydn, Pol Plançon sounds a lot
> > > better in Air du laboureur ( trans. French) from Haydn’s Jahreszeiten:
> > > Schon eilet froh der Ackermann than he does on the ARSC acoustic
> > > list with Couplets du tambour-major. That’s just my opinion, but you
> > > can hear it for yourself on UCSB’s website <
> > > https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/m
> > > at
> > > rix/detail/200003696/C-2321-Air_du_laboureur__;!!C5qS4YX3!WRHMGZiwDD
> > > vY iuUAopJ1HQRa_GSvYvw46PEef_NStr_VD-xxdKPts3SLj1sv8Z2rqg$
> > > >
> > >
> > > Pre-holiday cheers to all,
> > > Alex
> > >
> > > Alex McGehee
> > > ARSC Membership Committee, chair
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > On Nov 9, 2021, at 1:31 PM, Gary A. Galo <
> > > [log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have a couple of comments about this compilation, and I'm sure
> > > > other
> > > members will have some of their own.
> > > >
> > > > Stokowski's Brahms Hungarian Dance No. 5 was not the first
> > > > recording of
> > > a full symphony orchestra, not even on Victor, and not even in the
> > > United States. Karl Muck and the Boston Symphony Orchestra made
> > > their first records for Victor 3 weeks before Stokowski, because
> > > Stokowski initially rejected Victor's offer to make records. The
> > > first was the 4th movement of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony, and
> > > utilized the entire Boston Symphony Orchestra. The dates can be
> > > confirmed on DAHR. And, Charles Prince conducted an orchestra of 90
> > > players for Columbia performing Wagner's Rienzi Overture in February
> > > of 1917. Again, DAHR can confirm the date and the number of
> > > musicians involved (the number is also given on the record label).
> > > >
> > > > Also, though some might view it as a technicality, Vesti la Giubba
> > > > is
> > > not a song, it's an opera aria.
> > > >
> > > > Best,
> > > > Gar
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Gary Galo
> > > > Audio Engineer Emeritus
> > > > The Crane School of Music
> > > > SUNY at Potsdam, NY 13676
> > > >
> > > > "Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener."
> > > > Arnold Schoenberg
> > > >
> > > > "A true artist doesn't want to be admired, he wants to be believed."
> > > > Igor Markevitch
> > >
> >
>
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