July 2013 Meeting
NOTE TIME, DATE AND LOCATION
Date: Monday, July 22, 2013
Time: Punctually at 4:00 - 6:30 PM
Place: Symphony Hall Boston, 301 Massachusetts Ave., Boston,MA
Featured Guest: Bridget P. Carr, Senior
Archivist - Boston Symphony Orchestra
Topic: A Tour of the BSO's Archives
SPACE IS RESTRICTED. ONE RESERVATION/BAS MEMBER. PLEASE RSVP BY
E-MAIL TO: robertl_miller@yahoo.com
In your e-mail let me know if you have a
favorite BSO performance. Given enough lead time, it may be
possible to play your selection prior to the tour. Confirmation
of your RSVP will include instructions where to enter Symphony
Hall.
About the Archives: (from BSO.org)
The Boston Symphony Orchestra Archives houses
printed programs, press clippings, posters, photographs (and other
memorabilia), administrative files, and an extensive collection
of radio broadcast tapes of concerts and commercial recordings.
The audio/visual collection makes up about
one-third of the Archives' entire holdings and contains commercial
recordings and radio broadcast master tapes of the BSO, the Pops,
and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players. Also included are recordings
of Tanglewood Music Center student concerts dating back to the
mid-1970s and a collection of nearly 100 oral history interviews
with retired orchestra members or their surviving family members.
The Archives also houses a collection of films and broadcast-quality
videotapes dating back to the 1940s.
Special Note about the directions
that follow:
Be aware the tour is taking place during the afternoon commute
and just prior to a Red Sox game at 7PM that evening. Expect traffic
to be awful with parking expensive and difficult to find. Public
Transport (with the exception of the Mass. Ave (#1) bus) is the
better option. For those who must come by auto, car-pooling would
be the cost-beneficial alternative.
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