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This article reports on a project to preserve broadcast tapes of concerts of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2008. The project will be financed through a grant from Save America's Treasures. The grant will be administered by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. Detroit Symphony archivist Cynt...

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Published in:American Scholar Vol. 77; no. 4; p. 21
Main Author: Beasley, Sandra
Format: Article
Published: Phi Beta Kappa Society Autumn2008
Subjects:
Preservation of archival materials
Detroit Symphony Orchestra
Audiotapes
Sound recordings
Save America's Treasures (Organization)
National Endowment for the Arts
Client/server computing
Compact discs
United States
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Summary:This article reports on a project to preserve broadcast tapes of concerts of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra in 2008. The project will be financed through a grant from Save America's Treasures. The grant will be administered by the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. Detroit Symphony archivist Cynthia Korolov estimates that the grant will finance to make digitized versions of the recordings to be stored on computer servers and compact discs. The recordings include concerts with such guest artists as Enrico Caruso, Igor Stravinsky and Richard Strauss.