Hello,
I am forwarding a forwarded request. Apologies for cross-posting.
Marcos
Greetings, one and all:
A colleague at the Library of Congress wonders if anyone can help with the question below? I gather the person who asked him this wishes to locate the master tape in order to reissue it.
My immediate thought is that if the tape has announcements it was probably recorded off the air, at home, by an amateur, and that finding that master tape will probably be like looking for a needle in a haystack--and that's if he's lucky.
Thanks for any light anyone can shed.
The date: December 9, 1959.
The place: The General Assembly Hall of the United Nations, New York City, New York.
The performers: Jascha Heifetz, violin, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray, conductor.
The piece: Beethoven Violin Concerto, op. 61, D major
The occasion: part of the festivities for Human Rights Day, which is December 10.
The situation: someone has a tape of this performance (complete with announcer) and is wondering whether there is a master, and if there is, who might have it. The gentleman has been asked to contact UN Multimedia and the Detroit SO.
Don't know whether the tape the gentleman has is taken from a broadcast or a copy of another tape.
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Marcos Sueiro Bal Audio/Moving Image Project Archivist Columbia University Libraries
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