Re: [ARSCLIST] National Recorded Sound Preservation Study

[Mike Richter <mrichter@xxxxxxx>]

David Lennick wrote:

> More to the point, and this is something I was going to mention but I got
> sidetracked, the "big companies" are all over the world so there's no reason a
> compilation of Bea Wain's Victors couldn't be in print only in Japan (which in
> fact it is) and we'd never know about it unless we did a lot of research.

... and we might not be able to buy it regardless of price. Dreamlife, a 
Japanese firm, has in the past sold their opera videos through the 
Internet and a brick-and-mortar outlet in San Francisco. Now, those 
titles can be purchased only with a Japanese account from their shop in 
Tokyo or from their WWW site which is effectively in Japanese only.

Mike
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