2009 Preservation Grant Award (ARSC Grants Committee)
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past preservation grant recipients
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra
The ARSC Grants Committee is pleased to announce the recipients of
the Grants for Preservation of Classical Music Historical Recordings.
The program for these grants was founded in 2004 by Al Schlachtmeyer
and the ARSC Board of Directors, to encourage and support the preservation
of historically significant sound recordings of Western Art Music by
individuals and organizations.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra Archives Audio Preservation Project has been awarded a grant of $10,000 to assist in preserving, re-housing, and helping to make accessible to scholars and members of the public the historical recordings of the orchestra, in conjunction with in-kind contributions from the Symphony and its Annual Fund, Save America’s Treasures, and the National Historic Publications and Records Commission. The project will begin with audiotape recordings of broadcasts made in the 1950's and in danger of deterioration because of age and former storage conditions. The collection includes many performances which involved African-American composers and performers and which document the work of Music Directors Paul Paray, Sixten Ehrling, and Antal Dorati. The project forms part of the strategic plan of the orchestra’s new Music Director Leonard Slatkin.
