Preserving the Minnesota Orchestra's Concert Broadcast History, Phase II
To digitize a collection of archival Minnesota Orchestra concert recordings, allowing for greater public access to these historic resources.
As a result of this grant, the Minnesota Orchestra successfully digitized and preserved 205 performances from its archival collection of broadcast concert recordings from the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Prior to this project, those recordings existed only in unstable formats. This second phase of a multi-year effort allowed them to complete the digitization of concerts that were led by three of the Minnesota Orchestra’s most impactful music directors (Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Neville Marriner, and Edo de Waart) as well as additional concert recordings deemed to be historic or especially imperiled. In addition to the musical record, many of these broadcast concerts also feature intermission interviews with guest artists, guest conductors, and other notable personalities that may be a rich source of information for researchers and others.
The master files (and access copies) were distributed to the Minnesota Orchestra’s library, Minnesota Public Radio’s Digital Media Archive, and the University of Minnesota Performing Arts Archive.
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For more information about Advisory Group Members and conflicts of interest disclosures, please contact: Carolyn Veeser-Egbide Grants Manager Minnesota Historical Society 651-259-3469 carolyn.veeser-egbide@mnhs.org
$5,982,000 the first year and $7,000,000 the second year are for statewide historic and cultural grants to local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources. Money must be distributed through a competitive grant process. The Minnesota Historical Society must administer the money using established grant mechanisms, with assistance from the advisory committee created under Laws 2009, chapter 172, article 4, section 2, subdivision 4, paragraph (b), item (ii).
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