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