For those with musical interests

<x-flowed>Greetings - for any of you with musical interests, this looks like an
ambitious endeavor... Cathy

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      Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 14:28:44 +0300
      From: Krasheninnikov Vladimir <vlad_krash_at_ipnet.kiev.ua>
Reply-To: Krasheninnikov Vladimir <vlad_krash_at_ipnet.kiev.ua>
   Subject: [MLA-L] THE VERNADSKY ARCHIVE OF JEWISH MUSIC
        To: MLA-L_at_LISTSERV.INDIANA.EDU

Dear ladies and gentlemen,

FIELD RECORDINGS OF JEWISH MUSIC

The Jewish Music Collection of the Vernadsky Library, Kiev (An-ski
Expedition Recordings, Beregovski Archive etc.) Multi-CD Edition of
the Complete Recordings 1911-1947


My name is Vladimir Krasheninnikov. I have been appointed by the
Institute for Information Recording and the Vernadsky National Library
of the Ukraine as distribution manager for the CD project described in
this message.

THE VERNADSKY ARCHIVE OF JEWISH MUSIC

For many years the Vernadsky National Library of the Ukraine has been
the home of an extensive sound archive of field recordings of Jewish
music made in Russia during the first four decades of the 20th
century. At the centre of this sound archive lie the expedition
recordings made in Belarus, Volhynia and Podolia between 1912 and 1914
and the legendary Beregovski archive of recordings made in the Ukraine
in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. In recent years two 'experimental'
promotional CDs containing sample recordings taken from the archive
have been in limited circulation. I wish to inform you that these two
CDs are now readily available on a normal commercial basis to anyone
who wishes to purchase a copy. In addition to this, however, I wish to
inform you of a far more important development which will have
long-term repercussions in the fields of Yiddish studies and of Jewish
music. It has been decided to release the entire sound archive
commercially on a series of CDs.

THE CD EDITION OF THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS

In total the entire 'scientific edition' will comprise between 50 and
100 discs (at this stage it is impossible to be more accurate) and
will be presented in accordance with the highest scholarly standards.
The discs will be available not just to academic institutions and the
like but to the general public as well. We estimate that it will take
5 - 7 years for the entire edition to be issued. All future discs will
be released in the CD-Extra format and will have an anticipated
average running time of around 40-50 minutes. In addition to the sound
tracks, the discs will contain scans of all the music sheets and other
archival documents relating to the recordings on the disc. Perhaps I
should explain that CDs in the CD-Extra format are CDs that carry both
sound and text/images. The sound tracks can be played back on a normal
CD player or on a PC with a sound system. If they are played on a PC,
you can also access the text and images. Each disc represents a mine
of hitherto inaccessible source material recorded on location in the
shtetls of Belarus, Volhynia, Podolia and elsewhere at a time when
Yiddish was still a vibrant and thriving culture. The material about
to be made available is absolutely unique and of immense musical,
linguistic and historical interest. For example, from a musical point
of view the complete CD edition will contain not only hundreds of
field recordings of Yiddish folk and theatre songs, work songs,
klezmer music and other items but also the most extensive collection
of recordings of Hasidic melodies ever put together and, what is more,
recorded in the very heartland of Hasidism.

THE FIRST CDS IN THE NEW SERIES

The first two discs in the new series are devoted to recordings made
in Belarus and the Ukraine by the folklorist Zinovy Kisselgoff between
1913 and 1935 and will be available very shortly - probably within the
next 2 - 3 weeks. In this particular instance the running time is
about 90 minutes spread over two discs. The first disc contains about
35 minutes of cantorial items and the second disc, which has a running
time of 55 minutes, has recordings of wedding and other ceremonial
music and children's songs. In addition about 60 music sheets are
included on the discs. Each disc will cost $34 (including postage and
packing) and may be ordered by contacting me by e-mail, fax or phone
(see details below). Payment is either by bank transfer or,
alternatively, via the 'iKobo' money transfer system (see the
company's website at http://www.ikobo.com). This payment system has
been in operation for several months now and is working very well, but
if anyone has any suggestions as to how it can be improved on, then
all the better. Ease of payment is an absolutely crucial issue in this
enterprise and if anyone can suggest other payment methods which may
be preferable, I would be extremely grateful to hear from you.

A PLEA FOR ASSISTANCE

Finally, I would like to stress one point and once more ask for
assistance. This whole project of issuing the sound archive on CD is
entirely dependent on the sale of the CDs. As you can imagine, this is
an enormous undertaking and involves a host of engineers, scientists
and archivists. In addition, in order to make the sound transfers from
the delicate Edison wax cylinders onto the digital media a special
laser stylus had to be invented (the first of its kind in the world).
All this has to be financed from sales of the discs. The success of
the project will depend wholly on the response of the public and I
would ask you to contact anyone who you think may be interested in
this project and pass on the information contained in this message.

CONTACT DETAILS
If you wish
a) to place an order
b) to be kept informed about the progress of this CD edition or
c) who have any queries whatsoever in connection with this present
message,
please
contact me as follows:

e-mail: vladimir_krash_at_ipnet.kiev.ua
Fax: +380-44 463-04-60
Phone: +380-50 310-33-87

Yours sincerely,
Vladimir Krasheninnikov

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