[ARSCLIST] BSO basement tapes

[Clark Johnsen <clarkjohnsen@xxxxxxxxx>]

If you're an orchestra junkie, there's some interesting news out of the
Boston Symphony Orchestra.


The BSO has finished a six-month project to restore a group of audio tapes -
which include a world premiere of Milhaud's Sixth Symphony and Leonard
Bernstein performing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-Flat - taken from
concerts between 1951 and 1959...


The recordings were found by a couple in Fremont, New Hampshire who
purchased Waddell's house in 1996. Two years later, they donated the
collection to the BSO. Why do they matter so much? Because a 1961 fire at
WGBH destroyed most of the broadcasts made over the previous decade.



http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/exhibitionist/2008/06/the_bsos_baseme.html


Can there be any more perfect illustration of the principle, "Proliferation
is preservation"?


clark