Now could someone contact the Alan Lomax Archive to try and salvage the broken glass recording of the BBC Radio Ballad: Ref.: http://research.culturalequity.org/home-radio.jsp "In 1944, Bridson conceived of a series of ballad operas with folk music, “much in the eighteenth-century tradition of John Gay and Henry Carey,” as a way to promote cultural and interracial friendship between the peoples of Britain and the United States. They were broadcast by the BBC Home Service (union disputes prevented their being heard stateside). The first of these, The Man Who Went to War, was written by Langston Hughes and starred Canada Lee, Paul Robeson, and Ethel Waters. Alan Lomax helped select the music. Bridson described this as one of the most popular programs he ever had on the air, “being heard by millions on its first broadcast alone” (Bridson, 1971, p. 111). Sadly, the glass masters for the program were accidentally broken before they could be preserved on tape." Chris B. On 20/11/2014, Julie Martin <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > NEW HOPE FOR EARLY AUDIO: > NEDCC's IRENE Audio Preservation Service is now available. > The new IRENE Audio Preservation service at the Northeast Document > Conservation Center (NEDCC) is the culmination of a decade of research and > development at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the Library of > Congress. > > IRENE uses a non-contact approach, which eliminates the possibility of > damage caused by mechanical contact of a stylus on fragile media. The > process creates ultra-high resolution images of the audio groove structures > in either 2D or 3D, and the resulting image files are then processed through > software that translates them into an audio file. > > NEDCC CURRENTLY WORKS WITH THE FOLLOWING FORMATS: > Wax cylinders, lacquer discs ("acetate" discs), aluminum transcription > discs, shellac discs, tin foils, and other rare formats (e.g., Dictabelt, > Voice-O-Graph, etc.), and can handle rare fragile, or damaged media. > LEARN MORE: > About the NEDCC IRENE Service: > https://www.nedcc.org/audio-preservation/about > > About the History of the of the IRENE IMLS Grant Project at NEDCC: > https://www.nedcc.org/audio-preservation/history > > QUESTIONS about NEDCC's IRENE Audio Preservation Service? > Contact: Mason Vander Lugt, [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]> > **************************************************************** > NORTHEAST DOCUMENT CONSERVATION CENTER > Andover, MA - nedcc.org > JOIN THE NEDCC E-List for Updates on new IRENE projects and other > preservation news you can use: > https://www.nedcc.org/contact/sign-up-for-news >