Content type: Performed music / Format: 3 selected / Country (Location): United States - RPTF/ARSC Sound Collections Database Search Results

Description:: Collection of recordings, photographs, sheet music, paper documents, and two films which document every aspect of the career of operatic tenor, Richard Crooks. Audio recordings are largely from the Voice of Firestone radio show, but also include audio cassettes of performances on CBC radio broadcasts.
Content types:: Notated music, Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:: Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, Photographic print, and Text document
Extent:: 9 linear feet
Repository/Collector:: Stanford University, Archive of Recorded Sound

Description:: The collection consists of correspondence dealing with the Metropolitan Opera Regional Auditions; personal papers, mainly promotional documents, and biographical and/or pedagogical writings; newspaper and magazine clippings; annotated scores, programs, photos, scrapbooks and recordings. Recordings include opera broadcasts from the Metropolitan Opera which include Mario Chamlee, also his performance and rehearsal broadcasts on KFAC, and numerous transcription discs from his appearances on the Tony & Gus show in 1935 on WJZ.
Content types:: Notated music, Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, and Text
Formats:: Pressed 78rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Photographic print, Text document, and Microfilm
Extent:: ca. 17 boxes
Repository/Collector:: Stanford University, Archive of Recorded Sound

Description:: With over 300,000 recordings on tape, disc, cylinder, and piano roll, the Historical Music Recordings Collection is both the depository for University of Texas at Austin recordings and those of select orchestras, radio stations, national and international arts organizations. Named collections within the HMRC include: Irving Feld Radio Dramas; UT Radio House Transcription Discs; Mary Henrietta Chase Collection of Bing Crosby Lacquer Discs; KUT open-reel tape; Longhorn Radio Network open-reel tape; KMFA "20th century Romantics"; Austin Symphony Orchestra; Houston Symphony Orchestra; HMRC-CDs; 16-inch transcription discs (general collection).
Content types:: Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), and Spoken word
Formats:: Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Metal disc, LaserDisc, Cylinder, Analog audiocassette, Digital compact cassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Motion picture film, VHS (including SVHS and VHS-C), Betamax, U-matic (including U-matic S), Text document, and Piano rolls
Extent:: 300,000 items
Repository/Collector:: The University of Texas at Austin, Fine Arts Library

Description:: Papers, sound recordings, video recordings, and realia from broadcaster Willis Conover, including interviews with major jazz artists.
Content types:: Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, and Three-dimensional moving image
Formats:: Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Motion picture film, U-matic (including U-matic S), Photographic print, Photographic negative, and Text document
Extent:: 279 boxes
Repository/Collector:: University of North Texas Music Library
Online finding aid:: View on findingaids.library.unt.edu

Description:: Transcription discs of local radio broadcasts, 1946-1964, primarily of contemporary classical music performances and including some broadcasts of premieres (world premieres, first radio broadcasts, and first Washington performances), recorded by Rothschild, and some live recordings from Chamber Music Society of Baltimore concerts. Radio stations recorded include WBAL, WJZ, WCAO, WFBR, WITH, and WRC. The collection also includes several popular and jazz recordings, commercial releases, and some private home performances. Recordings of Chamber Music Society of Baltimore concerts and local radio broadcasts on reel-to-reel tapes, 1955-1991. The collection includes several world premieres from CMS concerts and other notable performances in broadcasts (first Washington performances, etc.). Radio recordings are concentrated in earlier recordings while CMS performances are concentrated later. The collection also includes a large subsection of recordings from Marian McPartland's Piano Jazz.
Content types:: Notated music, Performed music, Still image, and Text
Formats:: Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, and Acetate open reel tape
Extent:: 62 cubic feet
Repository/Collector:: Arthur Friedheim Library
Online finding aid:: View on aspace.library.jhu.edu

Description:: The records contain correspondence, memos, scrapbooks, news clippings, publicity materials, program log books, scripts, radio engineering lesson plans, contracts, licenses, photographs, sound recordings, moving image recordings, transcripts, and artifacts relating to the early history of WSB Radio, to WSB performers, programs, awards, and sponsored events (such as news workshops and career conferences for students), and to WSB-FM and WSB-TV.
Content types:: Notated music, Performed music, Spoken word, Still image, Text, Three-dimensional form, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:: Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Pressed 45rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Analog audiocassette, Polyester open reel tape, Motion picture film, Photographic print, Photographic negative, and Text document
Extent:: 24 linear feet, 250 Lacquer discs, 40,000 Pressed 78rpm, LP, and 45rpm discs
Repository/Collector:: Georgia State University Special Collections and Archives
Online finding aid:: View on digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu

Description:: A description of 110,000 recorded radio programs.
Content types:: Performed music, Sounds (Other than music & language), Spoken word, Text, and Two-dimensional moving image
Formats:: Pressed LP disc, Pressed 78rpm disc, Lacquer disc, Optical disc (including CD, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, DVD-R, DVD-RW, VCD), Metal disc, LaserDisc, MiniDisc, Cylinder, Sound wire reel, Analog audiocassette, Digital Audio Tape (DAT), Polyester open reel tape, Acetate open reel tape, Paper open reel tape, and Digital audio file (including MP3, WAV, AIFF, etc.)
Repository/Collector:: J. David Goldin

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