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[ARSCLIST] 2007 ARSC Conference: Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The following message has been posted by the Outreach Committee of the
Association for Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC).
--- 2007 ARSC CONFERENCE: MILWAUKEE, WISCONSIN ---
Save the date! The Ward Irish Music Archives will host the 41st annual ARSC
Conference in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 2-5, 2007. The Hilton Milwaukee City
Center, 509 West Wisconsin Avenue, will be the conference venue. Completed
in 1928, the hotel has been returned to its original Art Deco splendor.
In addition to the usual exciting presentations, two very special events
have been planned for the conference.
On Thursday, May 3, join us for a dinner reception at the Irish Fest Center.
The center, dedicated to Irish-related activities, including concerts and
workshops, is home to the Ward Irish Music Archives. The archives "promote,
preserve, and celebrate Irish music in all forms," and houses more than
40,000 Irish music artifacts, from sound recordings and sheet music to
musical instruments. It is considered to be the largest public collection of
its type in North America.
On Saturday, May 5, buses roll out to Barrington, Illinois, taking
registered conference attendees to an all-day outing at Jasper and Marian
Sanfilippo's Victorian Palace, a unique 44,000-square-foot mansion and
private museum. The world's largest collection of restored automatic musical
instruments is on display -- phonographs, music boxes, coin-operated pianos,
orchestrions, dance organs, calliopes, and more. The gargantuan 80-rank,
8000-pipe theater organ, with chambers occupying four stories, will impress
anyone privileged to hear it.
On the grounds of the Victorian Palace, the carousel building houses the
Eden Palais, an exquisite European salon carousel from 1890. Steam engines
from the 1800s and fairground and dance hall organs are also showcased in
the structure.
ARSC offers this rare opportunity to tour the spectacular Sanfilippo museum,
which is not open to the public.
More details about the 2007 ARSC Conference will be posted at
http://www.arsc-audio.org/. Please stay tuned.
Anna-Maria Manuel
ARSC Outreach Committee Chair