Re: [ARSCLIST] TO DAVID LEWIS: Re: Tradition/Everest/Vanguard Classics/Bernie Solomon

[Sam Brylawski <goodlistening@xxxxxxxxx>]

My understanding is that Seymour Solomon owned Vanguard classical from
1990, when he purchased it back from Welk, up to the time of his death
in 2002. I think that the family sold it soon after.

Sam

On Dec 12, 2007 4:38 PM, David Lewis <davlew@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> John Ross wrote:
>
> > I don't think Bernie Solomon was ever involved with Vanguard. The
> (other) Solomons sold the label to the Lawrence Welk organization
> (Welk Music Group) in 1985, and some time later sold the Classical
> label back to Seymour Solomon.
>
> This is correct. Welk Music Group had the pop Vanguard Catalogue until
> Artemis Records bought it in 1999. Artemis also bought the classical
> Vanguard catalogue at the same time, but passed on Everest.
>
> I have conflicting reports on the fate of Artemis. Wikipedia states that
> Artemis stopped trading in January 2004, but they were around later than
> that. Some Vanguard Classics reissues were shipped out THIS year - I
> submitted a review for the reissue of the Leonhardt Bach Art of the Fugue to
> the ARSC Journal in, I think, January. Although Danny Goldberg is no longer
> with Artemis, on his website (which is itself outdated and with pages that
> are not really functional) he lists himself continuing as a consultant with
> Artemis.
>
> So I cannot bring you to the bier in terms of what is up with Artemis or
> what happened - I really don't know, and would like to (am trying to, in
> fact) find out.
>
> > The Welk folks are actually doing a pretty good job of reissues and
> keeping much of the old folk stuff in print.
>
> Yep, they did do that, when they had it. Tradition would be an excellent
> candidate for inclusion in the Smithsonian/Folkways family of labels, n'est
> ce pas?
>
>
> David N. Lewis
> Assistant Classical Editor, All Music Guide
>
> Maybe music was not intended to satisfy the curious definiteness of man.
> Maybe it is better to hope that music may always be transcendental language
> in the most extravagant sense. ~ Charles Ives
>
>
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> At  12/12/2007 11:00 AM, Tom Fine wrote:
> >I believe the Vanguard folk catalog was retained by Bernie Solomon
> >and so its fate may be in limbo too.
>
>
> As for Tradition, the catalogue has moved through many hands. It was
> founded by Dianne Hamilton (heir to part of the Guggenheim fortune)
> and the Clancy Brothers. There might have been an intermediate owner,
> but it was acquired by Everest some time in the early Sixties. By the
> mid-Nineties, Tradition was part of the Rykodisc catalogue, and
> Bernie Solomon's Legacy/Bescol was also making reissues of the same
> material. Some of the original Tradition material is still in print,
> but I don't know who controls the label or owns the masters today.
>
> Can anybody point to a complete discography of the original
> Hamilton/Clancy catalogue? Or offer a better chronology?
>
> John Ross
>