News Archive
May 2013
2013 The ARSC Annual Conference
Registration is open!
The 47th Annual Conference will be held in Kansas City, Missouri on May 15-18, 2013. Register by April 23rd to save! Click here to view the Program Schedule and click here to read the session abstracts!
The ARSC 2013 Pre-conference Workshop: "Discovery Access Methods for Sound Recording Collections" will be held May 15th in Kansas City and will once again be available to virtual attendees via webcast. Read more...
ARSC NY Chapter presents Joe Patrych moderating a discussion of 5 extraordinary, supercentenary pianists. Join the discussion on Thursday, May 23rd at 7pm at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center. Read more...
The Finalists for the 2013 ARSC Awards for Excellence have been announced. Read more...
The ARSC Newsletter, Winter 2013, Number 131 is in the mail and now available online. Don't miss reading about the excitement coming this May in Kansas City, several new developments in audio preservation and archiving, tributes to colleagues we've recently lost, and more.
ARSC member and 2013 Grammy nominee, Lance Ledbetter of Dust-to-Digital discusses his recent work in the March 9th issue of the Economist. Read more...
ARSC Member and 2005 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient, Chris Strachwicz, was interviewed about his record label, Arhoolie Records, in the Wall Street Journal this month. Read more…
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Archives receives the 2013 ARSC Grant for Preservation of Classical Music Historical Recordings to support digital transfer, storage, and management of 47 reel-to-reel tapes of live concert recordings featuring interviews with notable conductors, musicians, and composers. Read more...
The Members-Only Resources are now available, including the Membership Directory and the 2012 ARSC Conference audio recordings. Please contact Nathan Georgitis for your log-in information and password.
April 2013
In Memoriam Elwood McKee (1928-2013)
The ARSC community deeply mourns the passing of Elwood McKee, at the age of 85. Elwood McKee played a significant role in ARSC from its earliest days to the present, playing a key role in in the modernization of the ARSC Bylaws and the formation of the Associated Audio Archives (AAA) project, serving in numerous board and committee positions, and writing more than 70 reviews and articles for the ARSC Journal, the most recent appearing in 2012. In 1988, he and his wife Joan were named "ARSC Members Extraordinaire."
ARSC NY Chapter presents Dennis Rooney discussing "Eugene Goossens: Conductor of the Future", April 18th, 7:00pm, at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center, NYC. Read more...
March 2013
ARSC NY Chapter presents "The Two Gary's": Gary Thalheimer on Jürgen Grundheber, the "Archivist/Pirate" and Gary Galo on Tenor, Helge Rosvaenge, "The Other Great Dane". Join the discussion on March 28th at 7pm at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center. Read more…
In Memoriam: David Hamilton
ARSC is deeply saddened to receive news of David Hamilton's passing. David was an ARSC member since our founding year and enriched our organization through his service and exceptional music scholarship. Read Gary Galo's Tribute to Hamilton
February 2013
ARSC New York Chapter presents Tom Fine on The Dawn of Digital, Feb. 21 at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center. Read more...
January 2013
ARSC New York Chapter presents Matthew Barton on Sports Broadcasting Highlights at LC and Gary Thalheimer on The Literature of Record Collecting, Jan. 17th at the CUNY Sonic Arts Center. Read more...
December 2012
Special Copyright-themed Issue of Popular Music and Society features article by ARSC President, Tim Brooks: "The Association for Recorded Sound Collections and the Movement to Reform Copyright in the United States". Available at your local library via subscription database. Read more...
If you've never visited WNYC's Archives and Preservation Blog, waste no more time and check it often. The Archives staff achieves what many of us strive for in combining preservation with outreach to great effect. From a recently discovered Eisenhower speech on lacquer disc, to the always colorful Mayor LaGuardia Twitter Feed, the blog is rich in content and a great example of the potential in sound archives.
The ARSC New York Chapter presents "David Hall: In Memoriam" and "New York Public Radio Archives Online" for their December 20th meeting, at 7pm. Read more...
