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and CEO. “It’s both branding “I think the Library, Harvard University, and information-sharing about online archive New York Public Library, the WORD PROS, INC. who we are and what we do.” Morgan Library and Museum experience is Fletcher is keen to expand better than being (although the Morgan’s great public access to Aspen’s 50-year manuscript holdings from Bach here in person,” performance archive, and he to Berg are now reportedly PROGRAM NOTES says New York says that attitudes are becomup for sale), and the Juilliard Informative and entertaining, with Philharmonic ing more flexible about dissemManuscript Collection—with accessible discussion of the music inating recordings: “Performers archivist/historian the latter allowing anyone anyitself, as well as lively historical and are realizing that recordings where anytime to view highcultural background information. Barbara Haws. are less about making money “Things are much resolution images of Stravin Program book editing and layout directly and more about buildsky’s early sketches of Petrushka easier to search ing excitement and a repertoire and other marvels. Special program book articles and read.” and an audience. Pianist Yuja In partnership with the Understandable musical analysis Wang is an Aspen alumna with Sloane Foundation and the Text translation a Deutsche Grammophon conlibrary-membership organiza 24-hour turnaround on rush jobs tract, but when she comes back tion Lyrasis, the Curtis Insti Notes for chamber ensembles to perform professionally with tute of Music is also sharing Audio examples for web sites us, she says that we can record select portions of its document See samples at: it for posterity, for broadcast, or collection via the nonprofit www.wordprosmusic.com whatever we would like. Internet Archive as part of the Elizabeth A. Kahn, Ph.D. “Classical-music lovers see site’s ongoing mass digitization Joseph S. Kahn, Ph.D. recordings differently now, and public Web library project. phone: 919 851-2410 too,” Fletcher adds. “A couple But in the realm of symphony wordpros@mindspring.com of years ago, Lang Lang played a recital orchestras, the model for how a 21st-centuhere, and two patrons turned to me and ry organization can preserve and dissemiasked if they could buy a recording of the nate its back pages in a forward-looking performance. I pointed out that the promanner may just be the New York PhilharSymphony Ad 12004 9/4/05, 12:21 PM gram was the same as his latest DG stumonic’s online archive. “Amazing dio album. But they said, ‘No, we want a By the end of this year, the Philharmusicianship, recording of this event.’ There will always monic’s digital archives site will have up “absolute be value in a considered, refined studio reto 1.3 million pages of documents coveremotional cording, but I think it’s sort of the Grateing 1943-70—the era from Bernstein’s decertainty, ful Dead phenomenon making itself felt— but with the orchestra to his final year as “intelligence, truth. people realize there can be a special magic music director. With more than 8 million She belongs among the exalted few.” in the capturing of a live event.” total pages and some 7,000 hours of audio (Mozart — Stereo Times) and video in its archive, the Philharmonic eventually plans to make its history availTreasures Online, for Everyone Ms. Rich is offering 12 Mozart Concerti, able online going back to 1842, the year of Never have the world’s most valuable muboth Weber Concerti, a coupling of the its founding. sic manuscripts, sketchbooks, and early Robert and Clara Schumann Concerti, All the documents on the Philharmoneditions been available to the eyes of more and many others. ic’s site were photographed, rather than researchers and music lovers than now, “Worthy of a cult following, she scanned, for the highest image quality. The thanks to the internet—and the generos“totally identifies with the Mozartean experience is extraordinarily quick, smooth, ity of such music-loving philanthropists as “idiom; she seems born to play this and comprehensive—a dizzying playBruce Kovner, the hedge-fund billionaire “music.” (Mozart Concerti ground for both scholars and general music who is chairman of the Juilliard School and — American Record Guide) obsessives. Visitors can look at documents a vice chairman of Lincoln Center for the “These may well be the most as thumbnails or zoom in to magnify dePerforming Arts. Kovner provided initial “persuasive advocacies the Weber tails, such as Bernstein’s tempo indications funding for the Music Treasures Consor“Concerti have received. I was and notes emphasizing expression (such as tium, which aims to widen scholarly access “dazzled.” (Fanfare) one passage marked “WILD”) in his score so that vast troves of documents from the “She brought power and eloquence to Mahler’s Ninth Symphony. But there are 16th to the 20th centuries can be searched “to every bar.” (Clara Schumann Concerto also many quirky margin jottings to himvia one site. — London Music & Musicians) self, including personal jokes and musings Hosted by the Library of Congress’s For further information contact for essays. Performing Arts Encyclopedia, the Music (212) 496-1515 or LiegnerMgt@aol.com The search function on the PhilharmonTreasures Consortium links the holdings www.LiegnerManagement.com ic site brings up a score or a program along of the Library of Congress, the British
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